Goodbye Mental Health Awareness Month

 

I had great plans for this Mental Health Awareness Month, but the multiverse disagreed, and I had to do as Captain Cold says and "throw away the plan." I really came to appreciate how when I am overstimulated and overwhelmed (even if for positive reasons like lots of paid cat-sitting work that took me all over), my capacity to deal with change disappears. In some areas I did better than expected, but overall I felt kind of frantic this month and struggled to relax even when I did have some downtime between being busy.

I think it is important for us to share when we are overstimulated and overwhelmed, because we all experience such moments, but all too often we don't talk about them and therefore feel isolated and alone in those struggles. It is late, and I have lots of stuff planned for tomorrow, so I will simply leave you all with the knowledge that no matter how you feel about May, no matter whether you were able to focus on mental health or not, you are not alone, and you did a fantastic job simply surviving. Mental Health Awareness Month may be coming to a close, but working on our mental health needs to occur all year.