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[butchcurious]

10 Ways to ‘Reach Out’ When You’re Struggling With Your Mental Health

After my friend’s suicide, I realized something: We ask people to reach out. But we never explain how.

I've been binge-reading this blog since I woke up, and thus far if I had to pick a most important post, I'd pick it. If you have trouble reaching out for help like I do, I'd advise checking out this post.

[thetalkingcompass]

If your goal in therapy is to ‘be happy,’ you might want to rethink that. Here’s why.

If your goal for therapy is impossible? You might give up before you ever get to the good stuff.

“I thought happiness was the whole point of this “mental health” thing. So I became something of an emotional hypochondriac — if I wasn’t happy, something was wrong.

Suddenly my very human experiences like sadness, anger, and anxiety were all “problems” that needed to be “fixed.” I had this unreasonable expectation that, if I worked hard enough, I could minimize the presence of every other emotion to become capital-h “Happy.”