Parenting is hard.
Relationships are hard.
Maintaining a career, being a stay home mom, trying to eat healthy, drinking enough water, moving our bodies, mom guilt, overthinking, the hustle, the mundane… the literal state of the world right now, it can be too much at times, for anyone, dare I say for most. Keeping your cup full means putting yourself first sometimes, saying “no” to invitations or requests when you feel you’ve become overextended, politely of course, jeez, I’m not suggesting you hulk out. Though have you heard about rage rooms? Yea, don’t let me plan our next girls night, or maybe do – depends on your idea of a good time… but I digress.
Maybe rage rooms aren’t your jam, luckily we also have companies like Headway, making mental health support more accessible by providing people with a way to find therapists that are actually covered by insurance. I don’t know how breezy your insurance website is, but mine is pretty much a deep, dark, glitchy wormhole directing me into an alternate universe where you need to know the name of the first born child of the doctor you wish to see in order to find them listed in your network.
Headway is also educating people in need on the how and why therapy really works in supporting various mental illnesses.
With celebrities like Selena Gomez who are also taking a stand, speaking out and trying to destigmatize conversations concerning metal health I think, as a society, we are heading in the right direction.
Based on my internet research, and we all know the internet doesn’t lie; there are nearly 300 different types of mental disorders. But you absolutely do not have to have a diagnosed disorder to benefit from just talking to a licensed therapist. Talk therapy is proven to help us not only work through past issues that have caused us to form negative ways of dealing with stressful events and emotions, but it helps us recognize those habits and form new, healthier ways to react and deal with situations in life as we are presented with them.
Let’s stop making discussions of mental illness controversial.