WHO Mental Health Day 2020

This year’s theme is let’s invest in mental health services and support.

Considering all that has happened this year, we all need some mental health help.

We are going to have an entire generation, if not several, with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Sort of like it was after the great depression started easing.

We have been in a crouch with our flight or flight going on in our head for so long that when this sorts itself out, the fall out is going to be big.

We need to put in a support system now for all those people who are going to need help down the line.

The problem is that our current investment in mental health care seems more of an after thought.

We need to take care of people both body and soul.

We are finding out more and more that there is a mind/body connection and one’s mind can harm one’s body literally.

Stress has been linked to or can exacerbate various medical conditions, such as asthma, fatigue, back pain, arrhythmias, difficulty breathing, headaches, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, suppression of the immune system, and fluctuations in blood glucose levels in diabetic patients and weight gain.

When one is poor and stressed, there is not much available until the problem goes too far.

So let’s figure this out before we have a massive mental health crises that cannot be dealt with.

I am grateful for my mental health care.