World mental health day

It’s world mental health day but I don’t feel it

These thoughts in my head are swirling around and you say-- to just breathe through it

I understand that it’s important to raise this awareness, but if awareness is just reposts, reblogs, and likes--what happens to the people like me that continue to fight?

depression, anxiety, suicide hell they made a song about it... but how do we actually save lives?

When I’m catching my breathe in the starbucks bathroom trying desperately to hold myself together where are the likes on that post?

When I have to leave school because I try to ask for help, I’m not congratulated on being another year late to graduation.

If we’re all about awareness on special days like today when do we start the actions or do these hashtags just fade away?

You see everyday is mental health day for me.

I live in it, I breathe through it, I cry with it but I don’t get a day off. I don’t get a day off to reblog posts about another persons issue, or make myself feel better by posting a hotline.

Mental health is so much more than this day. It’s about talking to your friends, asking them if their okay. It’s about listening to the voices that are begging to be heard and the people you don’t understand.

The addict who’s roaming the streets alone, the great uncle who lives in a home, the cousin who takes meds but doesn’t tell you why--these are the people trying desperately to survive.

I know today might be just one day for you and I get that the reblogs are the only thing you know to do but listen to me clear, I’m trying be a voice for those who can’t hear.

World Mental Health Day is more than just a hashtag, we need to do better. We need to take action, we need to listen and speak up and actually make traction.

We can do better than just one day, we can do better than letting this fade away.

It’s world mental health day everyday for me, now come on and listen and start understanding its everyday for you too.