What is it that makes physical pain more real than mental pain. Why does everyone immediately thinks of physical sickness when I say: ‘I am sick.’ Why does no one thinks that I am talking about depression or any other mental disorder. Why is that immediately out of question? And I find myself guilty of doing the exact same thing. My brain immediately thinks of physical sickness, visible pain. I don’t think of the pain in someone’s brain that can drive them so crazy they actually want to take their own life. I don’t see that pain, so my brain thinks it does not exists.

Why is no one taking mental health serious. Everyone needs to drink more water, but a meditation session is not helpfull at all? I don’t think that is true and yet I never find myself meditating. Why is it so easy to say: ‘I keep coughing, I think I need to go see a doctor’ and why is it so hard to say: ‘I have been feeling down for months, I think I need to go see a doctor?’ Why is that an uncommon thing to do?

Why are all these things the case, I ask. Does physical pain hurt more? Because I don’t think it does. I think mental health is a different but stronger pain. It can eat you up from the inside and you’ll be too afraid to ask anyone for help. It is probably just a little dip. You’re hormones are a bit weird this week, month, year. Mental disorders are harder to recognise, but that doesn’t mean that if you’re feeling down for a while you can’t go and see a doctor?
It is like going to the doctor because you’re coughing a lot and then the doctor tells you it is just a cold and it will pass.
Just go to the doctor when you’re feeling down, maybe the doctor will say it will be over soon and you won’t worry about it anymore.
But maybe the cough is actually pneumonia.
And maybe the feeling down is actually depression.

I think physical and mental health should be seen the same, they affect a person in different ways but they are both drastic and I am done with people not taking mental health serious.

Yet again, I am guilty of a lot of thinks I mentioned. So I am going to try to do better, to understand it better. I hope anyone who reads this, will try and do the same.