I took a look at the amount of suicide cases recorded yearly all around the globe, and I literarily found myself shivering.
According to statistics, over 800,000 cases are reported every year, making suicide taking the space of 1.4percent of the total death rate. This implies that of every one thousand deaths, fourteen occurred as a result of suicide.
Self-taken lives being that rampant? So bad. Really really bad.
As much as I know, it’s usually very easy to scream when our attentions are drawn to issues as such, spiking up our antennas of wonders as to why on earth someone will go as far as taking his or her own life. We could think that way. It’s easy. Very easy. And it’s not uncommon to find people ruining utterances of abuses on the lives that were lost on that road, without bearing in mind that though it happened in a moment, it didn’t just happen at that very instant.
Mind you, I’m not insinuating that there is any just cause for someone to take his/her life. In fact, I hold firmly on the fact that no matter what it is, suicide is never an option. But what I am trying to point clearly is that; that dreadful action must have been birthed by thought processes and those thought processes, formulated by distorted mental health.
So what may have caused the distorted mental health? Something, anything or a roller coaster of frustrated patterns piled up on his/her path.
And a great contributor to this problem is that it is usually presented that it’s so easy to maintain a mental balance, to keep a great mental health and to sustain mental sanity, but I am very much aware that it isn’t any easy, and I’m sure that if you search deeply, you’ll nod affirmatively to this.
Suicide may seem far off and completely out-of-the-way for you and I, but trust me, the necessity of maintaining a great mental health goes beyond protecting your mind from the thoughts of suicide. As little and typical as it maybe, refraining your mind from overwhelming pressures of getting things done is also part of it and very much important. And a good step to achieving this is understanding the difference between being concerned about getting tasks done, and feeling that hefty loads of pressure are heaped on you and pressing hard on your shoulders.
It’s just so easy to be engulfed by the feelings of the latter especially in this present time when;
- It is expected that you recover from lost or whatever damage within a snap of the fingers, so as to be tagged “strong”
- The demand of work is draining and nobody seems to understand you
- Responsibilities are hooping up and your current means aren’t capable of catering for them
- The social media has kept reiterating that nine to five is for the ‘futureless’
- Almost everybody seem to have found a wonderful ‘soap’ for themselves and you may still be looking out for somebody that will cut for you.
- Your school may have compressed a heavy coursework into a very tight schedule, and your lecturers seem not to care but are still bombarding you with so many assignments and tests, and so much materials containing chunk of information to be immersed on your head.
All these and more are enough to distort your mental health. Just one of it is. And you know what? It is very valid reason. Very valid.
But there is a goodnews and that is; there are ways that you can drift your focus from whatever the issue(s) may be.
You can do that by;
- Owning to your being and constantly reminding yourself that you are you and not anyone else.
- Not seeking for validation but taking your time to heal
- Shunning the noise, doing your thing and saying a big fat “NO” to unhealthy competitions
- Living in the moment and trying not to swallow every hurt/bitter/pain pill at once
- Measuring your progress and keeping records of your wins
- Making your goals well-aligned and still giving room for flexibilities in the case of eventualities.
- Learning from failures and actually moving on and on
You can also stay off any social media platform for a while if you feel more terrible the moment you unlock you phone and scroll through the feed.
Just know where the ease you need is, and be intentional about it. You’ll survive and come out mentally healthier.
Try taking one or more actions that you feel would soothe you and make you feel better, and keep in mind that it’s not instantaneous; it’s not a switch, but a gradual process.
Keep your life moving and while at it, don’t take things too hard and remember to always be nice to yourself.
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Profound!
Thanks so much, Haykins💥💚
Beautiful. Mental wellness can never be overemphasized. Take your time to care for yourself, nobody will do that for you. 💜
You’re very right. Self care is a self-responsibility and caring for the mental health is a fundamental part of it.
Thanks so much for the emphasis, Bray💜🥰
Thank you so much for this.