There are so many preconceived ideas attached to mental health conditions, usually associated with weakness and lack of decisiveness to overcome such conditions. Feelings like shame and repression should be fought against, as they bring people who might be struggling further down. In today’s society, we are expected to move fast and keep up with how fast it moves, that it may sometimes seem there is no time to stop or take some time to reflect or understand how to get to where we are. Medication is used as the only solution to improve how we feel, and no further inner search is done to observe and understand our feelings.
In my opinion, what really should matter is the search, the self-acceptance and the self-discovery without any judgment. What matters is to reach an understanding of the world as an opportunity-filled place ready to be explored with others around us rather than a dark unknown place.
Message of Encouragement
FCT-UNL Master’s in Computer Science Student, june 2020
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