World Mental Health Day

10th October 2020

Dear Mental health,

How are you? You must be the happiest, as the entire world is celebrating Mental Health day today. Mental health workers, as always, are doing their best to spread awareness about you.

But this happens every year and then slowly, you are again pushed back behind the closed doors, confined within the walls of shame and stigma.

People don’t hesitate to discuss about Physical Health but they are too scared to talk about you.

Scared about being judged, called names – lazy, attention seeker, psycho, mad, …

So they prefer to suffer in silence.

Ridiculed and isolated from the society, caged with loneliness, helplessness and worthlessness, trying hard to escape , at times by ending their lives.

Even their families are not spared.

But don’t feel disheartened my friend.

As ‘Every dark cloud has a silver lining‘, the current COVID-19 pandemic has forced the society to think about you, speak about you openly and invest in you.

People are slowly learning to show KINDNESS and COMPASSION towards self and others.

They are willing to make Mental health, too, a priority like Physical health.

How, I wish people had been more Compassionate and less judgemental always , the load of Mental illness would have definitely become lighter.

Let bygones be bygones!!!

It is said that sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

I hope this new outlook will go a long way in improving the Mental well-being, to reduce the stigma and encourage people to seek help .

My best wishes to you, dear friend ….

yours truly

A Mental health worker

© Dr Vijayashree Muthe, Consultant Psychiatrist,
Muthe Hospital, Jalgaon.

World Mental
Health Day

10th October 2020

Dear Mental health,

How are you? You must be the happiest, as the entire world is celebrating Mental Health day today. Mental health workers, as always, are doing their best to spread awareness about you.

But this happens every year and then slowly, you are again pushed back behind the closed doors, confined within the walls of shame and stigma.

People don’t hesitate to discuss about Physical Health but they are too scared to talk about you.

Scared about being judged, called names – lazy, attention seeker, psycho, mad, …

So they prefer to suffer in silence.

Ridiculed and isolated from the society, caged with loneliness, helplessness and worthlessness, trying hard to escape , at times by ending their lives.

Even their families are not spared.

But don’t feel disheartened my friend.

As ‘Every dark cloud has a silver lining‘, the current COVID-19 pandemic has forced the society to think about you, speak about you openly and invest in you.

People are slowly learning to show KINDNESS and COMPASSION towards self and others.

They are willing to make Mental health, too, a priority like Physical health.

How, I wish people had been more Compassionate and less judgemental always , the load of Mental illness would have definitely become lighter.

Let bygones be bygones!!!

It is said that sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

I hope this new outlook will go a long way in improving the Mental well-being, to reduce the stigma and encourage people to seek help .

My best wishes to you, dear friend ….

yours truly

A Mental health worker

© Dr Vijayashree Muthe, Consultant Psychiatrist,
Muthe Hospital, Jalgaon.

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