What's is Mental Health Illness?

Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also help determine how we handle stress, relate to there's, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. There are many mental disorder of mental health illness for example

* Clinical depression : is a mental health disorder characterizes by persistently depression mood or loss of interest in activities causing significant impairment in a daily life.

* Anxiety: is characterizes by feeling of worry, anxiety or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities.

* Bipolar depression: are episode of mood swing ranging from depression lows to highs.

There is nothing to be ashamed of if you have a mental health illness or a disorder it's like having any other medical problem just like heart disease, diabetes, or cancer.

"SIGN OF MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS"

1. CONFUSE THINKING

2. Social withdrawal

3. Prolonged depression ( sadness or irritability)

4. Strange thought (delusion)

5. Hallucinations

6. Suicidal thought

7.Substance use

The list goes on and on........

Do you remember me saying it's nothing to be ashamed about if you are dealing with mental health the reason I say that is because I know what it is like I have dealt it and my child deal with mental health. Here's a little background....

I can remember it like it was yesterday when I got a called from sister stating that grandmother had passed away, she passed away a week before Christmas. I remember asking me was I okay and I was like yea. I really couldn't wrap my head around the whole situation or what was going I had just picked up my kids from school and I got the called as we were walking in the door. I didn't make it to my grandmother funeral because all three of my kids were sick with the flu. My sisters didn't understand why I couldn't come to the funeral they was very mean to me but my dad really understood why. I was a single mother with three kids and no help from there dad I had bills and I didn't have money and. etc. I thought I was at peace with my grandmother passing away boy was I wrong. It was the beginning of January of 2014 it woke me out of sleep my heart was racing, my body temperature with to hot to cold and I felt dizzy, I saw my life flash before my eyes. I got scared and I called 9-1-1 I thought I was about to die, when I got the hospital they ran all the tests on me and nothing was wrong with me I was okay. That wasn't not the last time I went to the hospital either. It had gotten so bad I couldn't even stay in my own house. Every night I was at somebody house it was because if something happen to me they can make sure I was okay and my kids will be taking care. It was so bad that every night I was in the back of the hospital because I didn't know what was going on in my body, I thought I was losing my mind. I went to my doctor and told them what was going on they put me on blood pressure medicines and guess what my crazy self do go out and buy a blood pressure cuff. I would wear the blood pressure cuff to the store, school, and even to church I was bad off. I remember one day I was coming from school as I was driving then all of a sudden my heart begin to race I had to pull over and get some help, I went to the corner store and the call 9-1-1 and the ambulance came and they took me to the hospital. As they was rushing me to the hospital my heart rate go up to 200 my heart was racing and no one understood why until that day. A doctor came I the room and told me that I was dealing with and anxiety and I warlike what is that and I'm going to dead or what all these question was going through my mind. I left the hospital with medicine to control my heart and I had to see a cardiologist about my heart. The next day I went to the doctor office and they put me on a heart monitor I was so scared because if something happen to me who is going to take care of my kids. I went to get help with my anxiety and this lady told me that she couldn't help me with my anxiety that I have to retrain my body. I have dealing with anxiety since 2013 and I chose not to take any medicine but I trusted that God will get me through this and he have every step of the way its hasn't not been easy but I made it through.

My son now I been diagnosed with anxiety and depression it was hard for me to accepted because I was like I talk to my son about stuff in the world and also talk to him about self that happen in my life. When the doctor told me about my son I was like my son will never take medicine until one day he stated that he want to kill himself that when I was like okay maybe he do need medicine. So I did my research on different medicine for anxiety and depression and I found a good clear drug and I told the doctor that what I wanted him to take. So I made up my mind to put him on drugs not because I don't think that God can't heal him it's because everybody need help along the way. I know you are probably wondering why I didn't take medicine for my anxiety it was because I knew this lady that took medicine for her anxiety an I didn't want to be that person when she was off of medicine she was a different person and I didn't want to be that person for my kids. I want to be the cool, goofy and loving mom that my kids knew an I chose to take that route not to take any medicine.

My anxiety came from not accepting the fact my grandmother was gone and she wasn't coming back. I was made at God because he took my grandmother I wanted her to be here when I got married and when I graduated from college and God knew I was mad at him. It took me some time I went to counseling I even wrote a letter to my grandmother even though she was gone I had to do it for me. I can remind when I found out that I was dealing with anxiety I used to pray to God that he would take my anxiety away.

My testimony is since me moving to Houston I still dealt with anxiety it wasn't bad it (thank you God). I couldn't even drive to work without talking to my kids or anyone on the phone. I was bad and horrible I just needed someone in the car with me or someone to talk to. Here my testimony so one day I called this lady and asked her to pray and come in agreement with me about a job. Before she begin to pray she started telling me that my pray is just as good as her and I began to tell her that I feel like since I'm not right maybe God want hear my pray. She said something that touch my soul and spirit she said there is going to come a time in life that you not going to get me or anyone else you got to be able stand on God's word and do it for yourself and I was like okay. So that day I felt a changed in my life didn't know that what was going to happen but I knew something had shift in my life. So the next day was Wednesday my son JJ said mommy you can do it drive to work without calling you can do it, I was like okay I got in to my car listening to Tasha Cobbs as always bu this morning was a little different. I got on 290 heading to work driving alone thinking to myself I can do this, then the devil begin to mess with me I begin to speak the word of God and before I knew it I had took authority over the devil. I had look up and I had made it to work with tears in my eyes and thanking God I did it with God right there I made it to work. I called my kids and told them what happen my son JJ said I told you mom you can do it as I got off of the phone with them I just cried in the car and thank God. With the help of God I'm still able to drive to work without calling my kids and I owe it all to God.

If he did it for me he can do it for you so keep pushing and know that God will never leave you or forsake you. Keep Pushing.....

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