Brexit, Trump, Windrush, fascist leaders and lying politicians, the news is so bleak I, like many of us, am struggling.
It is hard sometimes with mental illness to know. One minute you are flying and the next you are hurtling downwards, able to make out the individual windows in the buildings and the colours of jackets and the patterns of chewing gum on the streets. There can be triggers and there can be signs, and sometimes the triggers come first and sometimes the signs, and in some instances the descent or ascent can be difficult to comprehend.
As we know, even the richest of people, the most successful, the most popular can become depressed and experience mental illness (and poor mental health, which is not the same, although they intertwine. We all experience bouts of poor mental health). More and more people are aware that these illnesses do not discriminate. People can be predisposed, genetically, to mental illness or have a vulnerability to mental ill health, but environment also factors. Of course the outside can affect the inside. That is why torture is a thing. That is why animals bite themselves in zoos. That is why we close our eyes in frustration on buses when people don’t use headphones.
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Hazel’s comment:
I happened across this piece after I had read the news of the shootings in New Zealand.
Phew.
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