Following up on my most recent post, I just want to say that there is always available help when you need it.
A few weeks back in school we did a health expo, and one of my friend’s topic was emotional health (mine was adrenaline, which I will be doing a post about next week) and she recommends plenty of resources and help lines that anyone can access if they need to.
Emotional and mental health is a very important part of the entirety of your health because if those sections fall apart, it is very likely that others will as well, such as physical health e.g. when someone calls you fat, it is likely your reaction will go in three possible directions:
- You do nothing because you are a generally buzz and zen person and critics opinion affect you, but not in a negative way. You possibly make a few positive changes, but nothing to bold.
- You decide, maybe this person is right and you let it affect your physical health by not eating as much, which can lead to weight monitoring diseases like anorexia.
- Then maybe you would do the complete opposite of variable number two and plop down on the couch, binge watch some popular Netflix television show and over eat. This causes obesity.
(Of course these three broad results branch out to a number of more intricate ones, and the neutral, negative and positive variables are practically endless!)
But anyway, here are a few apps that can help you monitor and sort out any confusing or difficult emotions. (At the end there are also some local – in my area – helplines and clinics.)
- Youper
- Daylio
- Smiling Minds
- Talk Life
- Moodpath
- Depression CBT
- What’s Up
- Pacifica
- Happify
- Kids Helpline
- Tweens Clinic
- Live4Life
Standing there
Alone
With the unforgiving rain plummeting down onto her dewy skin
Turning her characteristic hair into sharp, iron bars that have imprisoned her
The bars that she refuses to let anyone pass through
She doesn’t let anyone find the key to that iron cage to set her free
Because she is afraid
Afraid that if she finally opens up
People might help her
People might listen
People might blindly give her drugs that turn her into an emotion she is not
Happy
She dreads it
Always deserting herself from everyone else
Building those iron bars up so tall and so strong that they become pillars
Pillars that hold up a castle of depression
She is afraid of letting the fragile feeling out
Because she knows that if she lets it out of its dungeon
The dungeon that she has kept it in for years
That it will explode
And burn
And scorch the remains of the castle until it is in ashy decay
So she stands there
Alone
Letting the cool wind whip her
With the fire of sadness warming her amongst the chill of the day
Her dark, agonized eyes peak through her mop of hair
A glance is all it takes
For them to notice her
And suddenly she is not alone
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