Ongoing conversations

[QuillPenLove]

The therapy sessions often circle around everyday details, not just “big” problems. What do you think this focus on the ordinary says about how mental health struggles show up in daily life?

[minoko]

Even without a major trauma, if mental health struggles build up, they can manifest in daily life as things like changing jobs or going through cycles of mania and depression, just as she experienced.

But I thought she was very kind, because she was able to objectively see that her mental health was being affected in the “ordinary things” of life. It takes real courage to admit one’s own weaknesses.

[QuillPenLove]

That is so true. Looking internally and understanding our “weaknesses” is not easy. It may be simple for others, but to the self it can be overwhelming.