All the days I wrote this: - 22nd of April, 2023- 26th of April, 2023. (Big
pause from the 26th of April to 25th of June)
The time: - I forgot the time I started. But I’m continuing from 9:35 pm in
India.
My Inspiration: The 21st of April, 2023. I was instantly disturbed by the Artists of grade
10. The topic was “Mental Illnesses”, the room I walked into truly was a
piece of art. The first thing I noticed when I walked in was the sound it
was a very deep, dark, and haunting voice. A person was sitting with
their head down in the middle. There were eyes drawn to paper and hung
above that person. And there were these black scrambled balls on the
ground. All of these things represented depression, confusion, and most
importantly judgments. Most people don’t notice how they look at one
person in their brains. I and my classmates were asked to walk in a
circle. The walk was horror. I honestly expected the person sitting in the
middle to pop out and give a jump scare. But I saw the works of all these
artists and the meanings of these pictures. Mental illnesses are
constantly ignored around the world.
As further go on with my research and opinions. We seriously need to
take action against these people. Whoever in this world thinks that
people with mental illnesses are ‘attention-seeking’, ‘acting’, and ‘crazy’
are morons. I generally stand in the population of actually supporting
people with illnesses. It’s not funny. It’s a serious problem.
My life experience (skip this part, it’s very useless): My life is pretty odd, to be honest. Me being 12. Have no experience in life
or wisdom. I’m sharing my life so far this is not necessary at all. I’m
called a psychopath and an ‘emo-kid’ in my school. I used to see dead
bodies just for fun. They usually didn’t remind me of anything. I had no
expression when I was looking at the dead bodies. I just created an
exaggeration that I loved looking at them. Sometimes I did. Anyways, ever
since I went to School, I’ve always tried to make friends to my extent. I’ve
never succeeded. I tried making friends. I ended up losing them many
times. One night in the first week of November, I cried in front of my
brother expressing my loneliness and loss. It felt much better. But
looking at it now, most people don’t even have the support to do that,
people have lost many loved ones, and many people have got traumatized
by their close ones, and there’s much more that people have experienced
with worse conditions and situations. I am writing this to spread
awareness to people. People need to know about this mental illness.
My first part of the research was based on the question “What is mental
illness?”, this was very important.
Mental illness, also called mental health disorders, refers to a wide range
of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking,
and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety
disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive behaviors.
Mental illness has various ways of affecting us, humans. Not just our
brain but our whole body. OCD, anxiety, schizophrenia, and more are
examples of mental disorders. These mental disorders don’t only affect
the person’s brain but their body. But, how? Well, most mental illnesses
are majorly mistaken by the majority of the population. They say people
with mental illnesses are acting, attention-seeking, and, a psycho.
However, actual people with mental disorders are the complete opposite.
How would you feel, if you had a voice in your brain which degraded your
confidence and people judging you when you said that out loud? Terrible,
right? People with disorders like this feel like this all the time.
This is all I’ve done for Mental illnesses. It may seem like a lot but this
isn’t it. There are more mental illnesses as well. But moving on to other
important topic are important as well like Critical Internal Voices.