World Mental Health Day
Today is #worldmentalhealthday and I wanted to take some time to share part of my own story and follow up with a few things in my last major post. I think it’s great to have a day like this and to see mental health taken seriously. More and more people are speaking out, and while there is still a stigma apparent in our world, I truly believe we are making progress. I have always felt the need to minimize my own struggles, while publicly I may seem so open about everything in my life, this is not my nature. Anyone who grew up with me can recall the immense and high walls I would put up around my emotions. I wouldn’t always open up to even my closest friends or family. My point being, I have not always been so ‘confident’ or publicly expressive with who I am or where I’ve come from. It’s taken a choice, the hard choice to go against the voices in my head that tell me to live in fear and silence. I didn’t always know what the words anxiety, depression, suicide, sch...