It is OK to seek help…..
3rd February 2025
I dont really know about blogging! It is a whole new concept for me. Talking through typing! It is fortuitous that I type less than I talk. This Blog might end up as a novel!
I do know i have raised a similar subject though a blog gone by, but the words are different and my message is different. As indeed is the practice of developing a website and then endeavoring to educate and to sell tee shirts is different. And not just any tee shirts, ones designed by myself with a theme with a strong alignment to myself, woven into the threads of my life you might say! Mental Health……..a subject rolling out more mouths in the age we now live, though still lacking a depth of knowledge! Introducing Wiit & Wisdom Tees an extension to mental health education!
The concept percolated for less years than its taken too create and develop and insisted on this monumental leap for me into the previously unknown realm of technology, cyberspace or whatever. I could not have offered this level of insight and creativity in any other era, without my laptop, Canva & my new best friend Google. I worship Google. Every question had an answer! And I had sooooooo many questions! I have sought help excessively and extensively and Google never let me down! Initially engaging Google services was hard because i did not want to admit that technology was beating me. After all social media moguls said building a site was a cinch, but six decades did not provide my brain with skills for web building. It is another language, and languages become harder manage as ones twilight years dawn! So i Googled Google ad nauseum. Re-Googling when the language was unintelligible. And the result though not finalized ignites pride in my being because I have achieved so much! If the path was laid out for me to view at the beginning of the journey I would likely have not commenced.
While I have been compiling this entry I have realized there is analogy erupting from my words. Some years prior to this moment in time my initial mental health break was starting to bubble. Way down in my soul I knew something was a foot with my brain chemistry changing, psychosis rising & reality was fading, i lost the ability to ask for help. I couldn’t speak with clarity, nothing in my world made sense. I wasnt interacting appropriately with my children and I did not know why. It was akin to speaking underwater with a mouthful of marbles, and with that an insidious plan began to develop with marked clarity in my broken mind. I could not ask for help, I really did not know I needed any and that insidious dark plan seemed very normal, so much so I blurted it out during a Dr’s consult.
Since recovery from thar psychotic break I have gradually learned how to ask for help, to disclose when things in my head are not quite right. I have tuned into me and understand when it is appropriate to step back from the precipice and when to move forward, The alternative need not be thought of now i feel so well.
Hesitation to seek ones hand for assistance, may well lead to outcomes less favorable for you and yours!
Reach Out! x
