As soon as you say, you’re depressed, “they” want to put you on medication.
Nobody talks to you about nutrition or exercise or getting out into nature, or just crying to release the underlying reason for the depression. Or talking it through to unpack your emotions. To release.
Medication is the norm and we must change that as many people thrive and manage their symptoms using holistic and/or integrative practices.
We must make individual lifestyle changes. We must allow and encourage each individual to choose a traditional recovery approach, a holistic recovery approach, or a little of both.
We must honor what we ourselves know that we need to heal, to recover, and to thrive.
And we must have an ongoing dialouge about mental health in a safe, non judgemental space that promotes treatment seeking behavior where we normalize our symptoms and where we encourage people to want to step forward to speak their truth about their emotions, feelings and symptoms.
We all have mental health.
There is no shame in feeling. There is no shame in thinking. There is no shame in crying. There is no shame in feeling afraid to speak your truth.
Do it anyway.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
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