Have you every tried talking to a friend or a family member after having consistent low days and sever stress so much so that it feels out of your ability to control. What is the first thing they tell you? Lemme guess more often than not the first thought will be to get over it, sometimes the supposed ‘advice’ could be as bad as let's go get a drink and set you in a right mood.
Alas! Wish things were THAT easy, but are they? There ain't no lying or covering up needed for us to know how sickening is the concept of mental health is in our Indian Society especially.
Conversations about the severity struggles to even breath in between this chaos of 'it's just a phase' or ‘ all of this is just in your head’.
For most of us born and brought up in an Indian Society even especially those with a typical middle class backgrounds, having conversations that involves concern about our mental health with our parents is often an huge deal of sorts.
Not that we can bluntly blame them for all of it, that would be as unfair as them not wanting to share an understanding with you, we as a generation need to be a little empathetic and honestly calmer here! Years of ignorance fulled with societal prejudice is ought to take time and patience to evaporate. Things can get pretty out of hand that way when your plea meets an intense revolt from there end.
Not just the conversations but mental health as a career field too is more often then not typecasted. People have hard time explaining the one's not related to the field the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist.
We don't even have our concepts clear with suicide rates so high this is the one field that yearns and demands our attention. Be a little empathetic as people and listen and acknowledge our loved ones feelings when the gather courage to share and not shrug those or be in denial of even our own feelings.
No you aren't ‘crazy’ because you seek therapy. There is nothing wrong in wanting to deal with your problems in a better way and seek help when you feel that you are in need of one. Do not let people pull you down foe choosing a better life for yourself and not settling for the unsatisfied one.
We need to have conversations that matter, if we can educate people in some ways or form we should be doing our bit. It has become a need of the hour to normalize such conversations among our friend groups and family the resistance and mockery is inevitable but what waits for us at the other end is a generation much much at peace and happier than ours.
