Check in on those around you ...

[WonderSeeker]

Best video I've come across on mental illness awareness.

Rewatch a few times. Notice all of the subtle body language cues. 

Warning: If you're like me you will be washed over with intense emotions and bawl your eyes out for over an hour after watching. The actors did an incredible job in making it real.

[Princess Arabia]

Didn't expect that ending. 

[Yimpa]

Very relatable. I’ve masked my entire life pretending to be happy and fitting in, but at a certain point you need to end it and find new purpose and meaning for your life. 

[LoseYourvelf]

2 hours ago, Yimpa said:

Very relatable. I’ve masked my entire life pretending to be happy and fitting in, but at a certain point you need to end it and find new purpose and meaning for your life. 

What life "means" is nothing without other people, if your purpose isn't people, you have to look at your state of mind for answers on which treatment/medicine/research you might need, just saying.

Or in other words, the one thing you can never break your focus away from could be "your big gift". You will choose to either give it to others or hide it from them for further impact and results according to your own tastes/influences. This applied to art and spirituality draws in my opinion the only line in the sand we should draw for one another at the minute, the line between intention and meaning.

Think about this applied to SSRIs vs Psychedelics for severe mental illness and what we mean when we say about that "ending horribly"; if we're giving enough ammunition to the people around us mentally, someone is going to fire misfire a bullet and hurt someone eventually. How many people do you think really consider the mental health warning on Leo's videos? This initial breaking into someone else's mind for their own good is the hardest thing to pull off and Leo just kept it legally correct imo. 

Also smiling at strangers and pleasant interactions with passers-by in public spaces can't really go amiss if you're just genuinely showing them you're polite and caring the best you can. You can be pretty safely sure that most people outside are just going from point A to B and it's harder than you realise to misfire social signals.

The more people put excellent coincidences we can't explain into the belief bag, the more we'll keep searching generally for "value". The only answer is to rationalise the coincidences at your own comfortable pace. There's no rush though.

Edited March 4 by LoseYourvelf

[Michael569]

Thank you for raising this post 🙏❤️