Tuesday Check In: How's Everybody's Mental Health?

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Good day, everyone and welcome to our weekly mental health check-in thread! Feel free to comment below with how you are doing, as well as any coping skills and self-care strategies others can try! For information on mental health resources and support, feel free to consult our resources wiki (also located in the sidebar!) (IMPORTANT NOTE RE: THE RESOURCES WIKI: As Reddit is a global community, we hope our list of resources are diverse enough to better serve our community. As such, if you live in a country and/or geographic region that is NOT listed/represented but know of a local resource you feel would be beneficial, then please don't hesitate to let us know!)

Remember, you are human, it's OK to not be OK. Life can be very difficult and there's no how-to guide for any of this. Try to be kind to yourself and remember that people need people. No one is a lone island and you need not struggle alone. Remember to practice self-care and alone time as well. You can't pour from an empty cup and your life is worth it.

Take a moment to check in with a loved one, friend, or acquaintance. Ask them how they're doing, ask them about their mental health. Keep in mind that while we may not all be mentally ill, we all have mental health.

If you find yourself in particular struggling to go on, please take a moment to read and reflect on this poem.

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[u/HallowClaw]

Awful. I cried every day for the last two weeks.

I just want to stop being blamed for everything, for all the stuff I do and don't. For being born the way I was. For every little thing, that's on its own small, but it's just pilling up.

I'm tired of it all, I don't see any improvement on the horizon.

They are right, I'm useless, I'm lazy, I'm not enough. I'm clumsy, I can't do anything, everything I touch I fail. I can't learn anything. I can't be the hero they expect me to be.

I just have no power left to say no. I just cruise, accepting all the stuff being said to me. Well, not always, I couldn't hold it today and started crying after she got mad at me for sneezing, it was such a small thing it just broke me. I'm just empty right now, can't sleep and have to wake up early.

I just accepted no one will ever truly love me, I'm just a tool that was useful in the past but not anymore.

[u/That_Hobo_in_The_Tub → u/HallowClaw]

You're a human being with just as much worth and value as any other, my bro. Dont let anyone else make you feel any differently. We're all people who have our own struggles put in front of us, you aren't any lesser because your struggles are big right now.

If you want to talk any more about the situation and what's been making you feel that way, I'm happy to listen publicly or privately. It sounds like you may have some people treating you badly or you may have some internalized issues with self-worth, but either way, just know that waking up every day is the only thing required to be a person worthy of love and kindness. Everything else is subjective and optional.