How do Other People Feel About Mental Health?

We all have the choice either to make something in our life or to let life break us.

We better choose to do something and let not fear prohibit us to take further steps. By falling and standing up we get much further than by lying down and hoping we shall get somewhere.

People who feel sorry with us are perhaps not the right people to stay in contact with or to have a nice liaison with.

People are to fast to say a person has a psychological disorder.It is not because you are not the same as the majority that you would be insane or not normal. It also does not say you have a mental illness, and when a person has a mental ilness it does not mean he or she should not have a place in our society and would not be able to do good in our society.

When a person is facing depression and anxiety this may be at a certain point in his or her life, a moment of mental disease, which can pass and should pass when the person can find the strength in making the right contacts and in starting to believe in him or herself.

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Find also to read:

1. Fear, struggles, sadness, bad feelings and depression
2. Anxiety’s Hold
3. Anxiety is the gap between the now and the later
4. When discouraged facing opposition
5. It continues to be a never ending, exhausting battle for survival.
6. What If you’re only driven by stress?
7. Depression, Anxiety, Pressure and megachurches
8. Thanksgiving wisdom: Why gratitude is good for your health
9. Aligned
10. Some one or something to fear #2 Attitude and Reactions
11. Some one or something to fear #3 Cases, folks and outing
12. Some one or something to fear #4 Families and Competition
13. Fearing the right person
14. Searching for fulfilment and meaning through own efforts, facing unsatisfaction and depression
15. Come ye yourselves apart … and rest awhile (Mark 6:31)

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