Overcoming Mental Illness
Life episodes that include any type of negativity rather it be tragedy, misfortune, mistakes or human error can cause the chemicals in the brain to become imbalanced. Chemical imbalance within the brain can also be passed on generation to generation through genetics. When the chemicals in your brain aren't balanced, then an illness is created.
Depression is normal, anxiety is common, to even have a phobia or irrational fear of something is nothing that is unusual to a human. However, depression which leads to self-inflected pain or the destruction or others, anxiety that causes others around you especially the ones who love you to become concerned, or phobias that isolate you from the world you live in means the chemicals in your brain aren't functioning properly. Once that individual recognizes their thought processes are abnormal they could possibly assume they are crazy. What's even more painful for that individual is when others that surround him/her on a daily basis label them as crazy, kookoo, and/or lunatic.
Out of millions of human beings that walk the earth who suffer from a chemical imbalance in the brain (mental illness), my assumption is that not even half of these individuals are receiving the help they need to have mental stability.
To be held in a psychiatric ward is an experience that people don't ask for in their prayers. It is also extremely expensive to be detained within the hospital setting, and the expedition of going from medication to medication in order to find which med works on an individuals brain (because everybody can not handle the same medications nor dosages) takes a toll on the ability to experience contentment.
It is possible to be hospitalized and be surrounded by those who society views as insane, and receive a powerful and positive experience. An experience where the people you meet my have killed others, tried to kill themselves, abused drugs that have fried their brains, even those who are afraid to be alone in the world, yet finally decide they want to change and live a better life.
Some of these individuals have no home, no family, no friends, no money, no insurance, but to hear someone say I have nothing, I have lost everything and despite how misfortunate my life is I WANT TO LIVE. These testimonial moments can uplift you in ways that are beyond you imagination.
Overcoming mental illness is a journey, and you will not be cured instantly. You may be hospitalized, medicated, sent back out into the world, be exposed to failure, drugs, alcohol, tragedy, and/or evil and end up right back in the hospital. However many times it takes, as long as you still have life, keep seeking help. Keep searching for someone to listen to you and hear how you feel or what you feel like doing. Its imperative to find someone who understands. Without the help one needs to balance the chemicals in your brain that individual may never reach the happiness God has in store for them.
Anyone who is mentally ill can overcome this infirmity. The beginning of their triumph can start by accepting that they cannot win by themselves. By seeking help through the right people, programs, proper resources, and correct medications God will hold them up and grant them the strength they need to survive and live with a new hope...