Hi everyone! how are you? I hope you guys who read this are doing fine and please promise me you guys are in a good health condition both physical and mental and well today is 10th October 2022 is not just a normal day because today is the day of WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY!
according to Wikipedia, World Mental Health Day itself is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. This year's theme of World Mental Health Day is "Make Mental Health & Well-Being for All a Global Priority".
so, what do you guys think about it? do you celebrate it?
well if you ask me, I'm celebrating this day with being not-so-productive-but-lemme-be-okay-with-it and that's why I'm here writting this in my blog! and besides, through this post I want to spread to everyone abuot the awareness of understanding the important of Mental Health for human being because nowadays there so many heart breaking news, stories, posts, etc from various platforms about suicide.
I admit that this year, is a very hard year for me! do you guys feel it too? a few days ago, in Indonesia there's a news and the news is still viral right now in my country. The news is about a college student of Gadjah Mada University who commited suicide, he just fell from 11th floor of his hotel room in Yogya, Centrak Java. The reasons are still unknown, and it is so sad because there's so many videos and photos of the victim before his death.
He did well, yes.. I mean he hid his problems, sadness, anger, and dissapointment very well with his smile because if you find his photos or videos about him, he just did his daily routine activities like everyone did with smile, nothing else.. just normal.
and also a news about Indonesian worker who commited suicide in Japan because depressed and stressed out from working too hard.
not a long time ago, in 2010, there was a same tragedy too and went viral on twitter, instagram and tiktok platform. the tragedy was about a girl named Novia Widyasari who was the victim of Rape by his boyfriend named Randy. She got pregnant and had to abort the baby because her boyfriend and his entire family left her behind and dont want the baby, so Novia comitted suicide.
yes, a heart break can lead someone to commited suicide.
my prayers are with the victims of mental illness
Suicide itself is not caused by the lack of iman/faith in God but more than it, there are so many religious people but still commited suicide. It is because about their mental illness, not religion.
mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
so from that, if someone's mental is not in a good condition, they mostly think about suicide and try hard to find the shortcut to end the pain and make an unhealthy choices because he/she can't think clearly, unable to find support system, and many reasons related to it.
from my experiences, depressed people with mental illnes won't showed it up but we can prevent them from doing something risky in simple ways, such as :
1. if your friends want to tell something about their bad days, bad stories, or etc, just be a good listener because each people have different mental power to endure struggles
2. never judge them! whatever their stories are please never judge them because we never know the truths behind them
3. be a supportive friend! never let your friends alone, you can call, chat, and dms them to ensure that your friends are fine because people with mental illnes will be dangerous when they're alone.
4. help your friends to find therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist and escort them if its needed
5. remind your friends about religion slowly and smoothly (it works on me), but please don't forget that religion is a sensitive topic so please dont bring this topic at first, you can remind them about religion when they're ready and feel better than before. This one is important because it will remind them that God will always love them unconditionally and won't betray His ummat/people, the world is unfair but God is fair.