I hear people saying our mental health is essential, please take care of it like you would take care of your physical health, but then can drugs be taken to cure whatever we are feeling upstairs?
Right now, I don't know how I'm feeling mentally. Sometimes, I feel like I'm okay, but other times, I feel like I'm not. Deep inside me, I know I want to be fine, but where do I start from? I ask myself this question every time, but I haven't gotten a definite answer to it.
Recently I've noticed myself falling back on my daily routine "Don't know if it's a good thing though" I've been pretty occupied to the point that I have forgotten some things around me even existed or should I say I've been asking myself this question "so you can literally live like this?" I feel a lot different from the normal me I've always known. "Is it a good sign?" If it is, then it's a sign of what?.
Here I am trying to adjust to the new me, then I noticed I've fallen behind on certain things, and it's beginning to affect my mental health. My friends would often complain that I have not been creating time for them, then I would look at myself and be like "even myself doesn't have that time". Now I'm feeling lonely like I have no one in my life, and it's affecting me a lot.
Right now I'm developing some symptoms of what I don't know. I thought medicine could actually cure it because I mean, I'm feeling feverish. "Don't laugh." I decided to check that fever and noticed it's nothing physical; it was my mental health playing tricks on me.
Often I ask myself, "I've asked myself a lot of questions today, I know right?" Between my mental health and physical health, which comes first? I've taken the time to reflect on those two items above and have come to the conclusion that both are important, and also I believe they can actually have an effect on each other as well.
Knowing that both are important, how does one create the balance needed to be able to keep both in check? It is a "difficult task." I also believe that to improve my mental health, I would have to be physically strong and sound; that is, my physical health has to be in perfect shape. When my physical health isn't in order, it's gonna affect my mental health as well. "I just learned that recently".
To keep both in balance, I've adopted a new life routine, and that no matter how difficult things are, or should I say no matter what life throws stuff at me, I'm not gonna lose my mental health in the process. I know, as I grew older, certain things are bound to change around me, and I'm not gonna let that change affect my lifestyle.
I'm going to learn to engage in some fun activities with my friends, and I'm gonna build a great bond with my family because they are my safe space and my comfort zone.
And also, I've learned to let go. This was the hardest thing to do, but then I have because certain people mess with my mental health, and I've decided to keep it in check, so such people have to go. Currently, the balance I'm creating in both health has been amazing, and I'm gonna keep it up forever.
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