Mind Matters

Mental health awareness is critical for promoting understanding, compassion, and support for individuals experiencing mental health challenges. By fostering an environment that values mental well-being, we can work towards reducing stigma, providing timely intervention, improving overall quality of life, and creating a society that prioritizes mental health.

Prioritizing mental health helps individuals lead fulfilling lives while contributing to a healthier and more supportive society.

With songs for any season or spirit, this BTS-themed self-care playlist has songs that captures all feels 😌

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You can't see people's mental health. Always be kind.

Depression is not someone

Depression is not the underperforming kid in school
Who always keeps her head low
And eats her lunch in the toilet
It is not someone who can’t bring themselves out of bed
Not the boy who only wears darks clothes
Like the girl who never smiles in photographs
And always disappears

Depression is not what you aren’t when you think everything in your life is sunny
As if depression is all about the dark
Depression,
Is not the sulking teenager college dropout
The overdosed one who can’t fall asleep without drowning
In whatever allows her to

Depression is not the children who didn’t have supportive parents
It is not the adult who lost their job
Not the neighbor you never talked to because he had gloomy eyes
And only wore the same gray jacket everyday

Depression is not the girl who managed to roll herself out of bed
Take a shower, and put on her armor for another day
It is not someone
Because no one is only ever their pain
And the pain is not always in the shades of blue, black, gray
Not oversized shirts and unwashed hoodies
Not sluggish walk and head cast low stares along the hallway
Not lonesome adolescence and overdose
Not left-alone child who never smiled
Whose parents were never supportive

Depression is never one person, never one image caricature
You can’t measure depression
The way I tried to make sense of it as a terminology in my classes in Psychology
In my university mental health awareness campaigns
No wonder it has always been so distantly vague
Because depression is not someone
Not something
But it sure is a heave in your chest you didn’t recognize until your knees locked in on you
To prove
The oxygen has gone too low
So you fill your thirsty lungs with your tears and apologies,
It sure is not me rolling off my bed
But it’s a stain no one can see when I do;
And when I don’t
It’s a thump no one hears
And no one sees through the grades and stark performance they called me by;

Depression is not someone
It is not anyone painted the shades you think it is
There is not enough color in our vocabulary
Not enough numbers and letters to call it by

I know, because it sure does taste like acid in my throat that creeps in every crevice of my joint,
That cements me back to blue, then black then gray
even when the skies are the pretty kind of blue
Even when I want to say,
from my heart
Thank you