Internal struggles are a part of everyone's life, whether they have mental health issues or not. At some point each of us struggles with grief, anger, remorse, realities we disagree with. After all, that's life. However, there are people who live with mental health issues and their struggles become very challenging. It takes strength to fight them and move beyond them.
5 of the silent battles are more frequent and common, so they will make you understand that you are not alone, at the same time they will make people aware of people who are close to them who suffer from mental health problems.
Living through intense and persistent fear
Many individuals suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. Often, such states, created by fear, create invisible barriers, which create problems in the implementation of the daily routine. For example, some of these individuals find it difficult to leave the house in the morning because they have trouble socializing out of doors. With the help of therapy, fears can be overcome little by little until the point when life returns to normal.
Finding a way out of fixations
Psychological conditions that have the main element of 'overthinking' and obsessive behaviors (OCD) cause a person to enter into an uncontrollable state of anxiety. An example to support this idea is the fear of some people that they may have run over someone with a car during a routine trip. This fear can be so intense that the individual with OCD may turn back to the place where they thought they hit someone or check the car for scratches. For this problem, there are specific therapies that are applied.
Hearing voices
Hearing voices is a common symptom of some mental illnesses, including schizophrenia. While in cases like depression, negative thoughts are heard as a loud voice in the head.
Often hearing voices becomes problematic as their influence can be a guide in making negative decisions that cause harm around the sufferer. Some of them need medication to reduce the level of impact from voices, while others only need continuous therapy. The essence of the solution to this problem lies in self-love and kindness, a process that requires a lot of strength and dedication.
Disbelief in good and positive events
Bipolarity is another problem that causes people to have mood swings from extreme to extreme in a very short time. From intense happiness to depression, these individuals have the tendency not to see and believe the events and moments of happiness as they immediately associate them with something negative that will come as a result. Most of them do not allow themselves to feel positive emotions and push them away, so the therapy that would help them is rediscovering and exploring feelings of happiness and healthy mood swings.
The desire to live
Tragically, suicide is a present risk for most individuals living with mental health problems. For someone who constantly struggles with suicidal thoughts, the daily struggle is to live and protect his life. Seeking help and support is the solution to such life-threatening problems. There is always light even when darkness has covered all.
