* Topic 1: My opinion on mental health

Just to be clear this is my opinion based on my experiences with life and people.

Mental health, particular for men, is something that is not talked about enough. I feel like there isn't enough inspiration in the world of media and celebrity for people to be encouraged to better their mental health.

When I was younger I was taught not to cry, to be a man (whatever that means), not to be emotionally attached and just to be strong.

But over the years I've embraced my emotions whether I am crying, angry, upset or happy. Don't get me wrong I have a lot more work to do but I am making sure that I am working on myself to be able to be connected to myself. One thing about me is that I find it difficult to express the way I feel in words, instead I keep my emotions locked up deep, and because I have done that for so many years, I actually feel numb to the emotion, not being able to express how I actually feel with words.

Mental health should be recognised in schools as a subject. Mentally, my generation with children do not understand the way the world works compared to when we were in schools when computers and the internet was first introduced. Children have access to so much more information than we did, connected to so many more people good and bad. The media play a crucial part in this also to do with body image, which I will express in another topic.

In my culture, mental health is a taboo, so we're made to think that if you need to see a doctor or a therapist then you must be crazy. I have even known people that have parents that are doctors that still don't understand the need of seeing someone for some help.

Asking for help or asking for someone to listen to you does not mean that you are crazy. Our life experience, as we grow up, shapes the way we interact with people, deal with situations and effects how our emotions are tugged in certain directions. It's so important to know the threads that's connected to the emotion that you experience to help overcome depression, nervousness, anxiety, panic, anger and confidence. But you can't do this by yourself.

Thankfully through my ex-girlfriend I was introduced to a Holistic Healer who does therapy also. Over the past 2 years I have seen a change in myself as well as the way I present myself to family and friends. Obviously at the beginning I was sceptical but intrigued at the same time. But at that time I was ready to start making the change, which is so important before you embark on taking a journey to better yourself.

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