Mental Health

By Hafizul Hafis

i would like to write about Mental Health and shares my experience with you. Firstly, i would like to let you guys know that I’m diagnosed with Depression and a minor-moderate schizophrenia when i was 14 years old. It’s kind of uncommon in psychiatric world for a 14 years old like me to have schizophrenia. Mostly, it happens to adult and student of university/college as I’ve been told by my psychiatrist. But the things is, everything can happens and nothing is impossible right? Growing up with a depression and schizophrenia was very tough and exhausted. It was a very big struggle to me and my family back in the days. There’s a time where i can’t do any single things and work just because I’m affected so bad by my sickness. There’s a time where i feel that i have no faith in myself, my life and everyone around me. The feeling of suicidal and self harming will always come into my mind days and night. Having this sickness is a big nightmare to me. Because people can’t see this mental illness, I’m the only one that feel and experience it. Just because they didn’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Some people can’t understand me. They keep telling me to be positive, asking me to change my mindset, keep telling me to try, try, try and they told me that every single damn time and it wasn’t even helpful. Also, I actually did encountered this stupid people that saying I’m acting just for an attention. It’s very idiotic right?

The reason why I had depression and schizophrenia is because i was bullied mentally and emotionally when i was 12-15 years old. That is the major factor that contributed to my depression. There’s other factor too that contributed to it such as lack of love and attention from the beloved one, no one to count and trust on and other personal things that I can’t share here publicly. But thank god, that now i feel a lot better than before and could manage and cope with my sickness. I wish that my mental health could stay in this condition forever. It do takes time to recover fully. You need to take medication, therapy and counseling session if you need to. Do take care of your health seriously.

Mental Illness happens when chemical in our brains is imbalance. This people need to take a medication to balance the chemicals in their brains. Telling them to be positive, keep trying and all other bullshit isn’t even helping them to cope with their depression, anxiety etcetera. This could gave them pressure and could make them feel bad about themselves. There’s a certain and appropriate ways to take care of them and help them to be a better person and make them feels more better about themselves. They could need to cope with it for a lifetime. Show some love and support and don’t ever think that they’re weird and crazy. It could hurts their feeling deeply and make them feel bad about themselves. Mental illness is important like any other sickness. Read more about it online if you want to avoid it from happening to you. Learn everything that could make you stronger for yourself and you mental health!