a story in progress
This is my first ever #Blog4MH post! I'm so excited (and to be honest kinda nervous) to share my story and thoughts with you all. 💖 I developed a love of psychology during high school. Neuroscience and the brain fascinated me and I would spend extra time focusing on memorizing the structure and functions. This lead me to the topic of mental health and illness. I started to think: What is mental health? The definition from the World Health Organization website is a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community This definition really got me to reflect on how I was doing and how I was feeling. It used to be increasingly difficult for me to focus on, well, anything. I was always worried about failure and had developed this bad habit of comparing my accomplishments to others. I was always putting my