In my country
Our parents don't see a use for a therapist
Or believe in an unstable mind,so therefore they don't ask about our mental health
They don't believe us when we tell them we are depressed or over worked or over stressed
Instead they say “Godforbid, I rebuke it In Jesus mighty name”
And they leave us to deal with our unstable mind and reducing mental health.
They say therapy is a waste of time and money
“Those therapist would make your situation worse by invading your brain” they say.
Or most of them just laugh out request off and say “you don't know what depression is”
But what they don't understand is
We do know, we know what depression is, we know what anxiety is, we know what it feels like to having the fear of your own life not being safe with you.
But they decide to be in denial of how bad our mental health is because they refused to believe we have problems as we grow that would result to those things.
My hope is one day they open their eyes and heart to see how bad it's gotten fit us and be of help to us.
I wish they knew of the bloody battles we fight with depression in the middle of the night. I wish they knew how depression tears a chunk of our flesh at will, I wish they knew how strong we are❤️