Published on 12, July, 2020
Nooooooo, MEDITATE LOUDERRRRRR!!
You have made perfect sense. I feel likewise.
My employers have been banging on about this, and I find it’s just for show. I don’t think they actually care about anyone’s mental health. I dare say if I mentioned anything I’d just get a ‘look’ like there’s smoothing wrong with me.
It’s good that people feel better about speaking about their troubles though. And you can get help for anxiety and depression etc, but as an autistic person who suffers with high levels of anxiety, making a post on work social media about it doesn’t help me. The treatment doesn’t help me either, as it’s not tailored to ASD individuals. Also, Autism as a mental health disorder, and just feel as though my plight doesn’t matter, but the lady who takes time off work with anxiety or panic attacks gets some sort of preference and acknowledgment. I’m not playing down these issues, I just feel unseen. I also think I haven’t made much sense in this reply lol
Sad that mh resources on the nhs are ... all but non-existent.
Ok, now i have the image of a cliche drill instructor, berating recruits for not meditating hard enough ... "MY GRANDMOTHER CAN MEDITATE HARDER THAN YOU!!" ....Drop and give me thirty ooohhhmmms....
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Mandating Mindfulness?
I agree with everything that's been said in this thread.
Awareness without action is pointless.
Yeah awareness week isn't much of it now. We need more support in the service, better support, more treatment that focuses on helping the individual rather than shoving him or her in a hospital for months on end.
At the moment mental health services suck. Seem to do more worse than good so this needs to change. Rather than focusing on being aware of mental health they need to focus on how to better help people who suffer mentally.
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I feel it is getting a bit stale, as surely everyone is ‘aware’ of mental health problems. It would be better to focus on campaigning for better funded services so that those who are ‘aware’ can actually get the help they need.
I agree. I've always felt much, much worse during this 'week' (this year is worse than normal).
I always thought it was just me being oversensitive and miserable. Certainly felt I was made to feel that.
Just don't know what to do about it:
I don't think anyone likes it except for the people with no direct experience who are patting themselves on the back for suggesting the rest of us go outside.
Mental health awareness week could potentially be very helpful in correcting misconceptions and reducing stigma, but unfortunately it currently isn't doing that. The fact that it's a week and not a sustained campaign doesn't help- people like to be seen to be doing SOMETHING, but anything too long-term is too much effort, so they just drop it after a week and never dig into anything that would genuinely be helpful.