How words can affect mental health

Words are very powerful. People use them for both supporting people and wanting to get a reaction out of someone. As I believe that people should do is, if you have nothing nice to say then don’t say anything at all. You will be surprised at the amount of people who don’t actually do this, as adults we assume that it’s children who need the lessons on being kind and nice, children are learning, it’s adults who feel like they own the world are the ones with the issue. They think that if they don’t suffer with something then it doesn’t exist.

If we went around believing that if we don’t think about something then it doesn’t exist, how many issues would not be solved? Billions. I wouldn’t even be taking the time to talk to you about mental health and disabilities.

The phrase “snap out of it” really annoys me, because it’s basically saying to someone that their being ridiculous about their feelings and their way of thinking, it’s also a very harsh phrase to use, but in this instance, I’m going to use it to prove a point.

Mental health and mental illnesses are very real and can affect people differently, so don’t judge someone for what they’re going through because you don’t know what their journey has been like so far.

We all say things to people as if we know better but “telling someone with a mental illness to snap out of it is like telling someone who is deaf to listen harder”, I am guessing your first impression of that is “but how can a deaf person listen harder if they can’t hear in the first place?” That’s my point. Telling someone struggling with a mental disorder to snap out of it isn’t going to work because they themselves don’t know what they’re going through and how to change it.

So, stop using phrases that just can’t happen and start allowing yourself to help people through what they’re going through.

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