Face To Face With My Mental Illness
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Face To Face With My Mental Illness |
This time last year I came face to face with my mental illness I had reached the tipping point as it were, the juncture where I finally summoned up the strength and courage to confront the demons who snuck in the back door and hijacked my mental health. Of course, this was more of a gradual take over but as brutal and as debilitating as a full-scale mind invasion.
and nightmares, irritability and hypervigilance see their hostile talk over to the end and thus allowing them to lock one down in a cold, dark and unforgiving dungeon somewhere deep within my mind. Or…… I could go to war with my what I recognized as the mental health condition known as PTSD.
. Because I knew my invading enemy, I understood that I fight or I die. Faced with these two choices my decision was an easy one, having so much to live for, I set out on the road to mental wellness to combat this most formidable foe.
and I was spinning out of control into a full-blown mental health crisis. So then, what were my weapons of choice? For one, Giving up on denial; denial allows mental illness to intrude on every aspect of one’s life and will eventually take one down. |
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The other weapons I deployed to avoid mass mental destruction was – Firstly, not caring what others thought. This weapon is so important that I would not have reached for any other tool because fear would have been allowed to grow and fester had I cared about others opinions. Secondly, I worked closely with my employer to ensure that they knew and that I was taking time off. Thrid was medical and mental health professionals. Unshamed to reach out to them as much as possible to ensure I got the right care was very essential. For those discouraged by the system, Please keep going. The squeaky wheel really does get the grease.
Over the course of the year, I have come face to face with my mental illness known as PTSD 
if you are suffering from PTSD or another mental illness, please reach out. I thank you for your service and you are still worthy and mean something. I believe in you!
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Jonathan Arenburg
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