Break The Wheel

"Lying curled up inside the quilt; she was at war with her dejected self.

Trying to fight her inner demons, shoot out the quest.

How does she face the dark and impenetrable thoughts in her mind that breeds?

After all the wounds that are not visible on the body are deeper and more hurtful than the ones that bleeds.

She does not uphold to the criteria of a job, but nobody knew that she was at a job of trying to shut the suicidal thoughts that popped up in her angst mind every day."

Mental health includes the emotional, psychological, social well-being of the person and can affect their self-esteem, relationships and ability to function in everyday life. A report of WHO says that 300 million people worldwide suffering from mental illness. Moreover, when it comes to countries, India is the most depressed country world followed by China and the USA.

Mental illness includes depression, psychosomatic disorder, schizophrenia, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). While depression and other disorders are extreme cases and could not be compared to a brief period of sadness and grief. While the desolation feels like a gloomy morning that would fade away when the sun would shine out from the clouds. At the same time, mental illness feels like a tornado, making you gasp and take a deep breath while it shatters you completely from within. The person suffering from it often seen to have suicidal thoughts and usually have a hard time coming out. Psychiatrists suggest that only even talking about it in open could lower its effect.

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear.” -C. S. Lewis

While the neuroscientists do not have a full picture of mental illness, common people seem to be even less cognitive with the issue. In order to spread awareness, professional interventions and health literacy programmes focusing on mental health should be organised.

As a famous saying goes “there is no war that will end all wars”, but this ultimate war of mental illness from oneself could only be won by battling those thousand wars within. This war could be of a person from oneself, but it does not necessarily have to be fought alone. So let us break the wheel and be there for others in their war with themselves.