Today, I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve because, for the first time in ages, something I saw on prime-time TV made me feel something.
On Tuesday night’s episode of The Project, the panel spoke to Mitch Wallis, a 27-year-old Microsoft Marketing Manager who on the outside appeared to have the perfect life. At night, however, he would cry himself to sleep dealing with an internal struggle with mental health.
Watching the raw footage of a video diary filmed alone in a hotel room at his lowest moment, I started to cry. And I couldn’t stop.
Because as Carrie so eloquently articulated what many of us were feeling, I saw myself in his tears.
Just like Mitch, my life is arguably the best it’s ever been. New job straight out of uni in my chosen career path. Great housemates in an enviable suburb of Sydney’s Inner West. A stable long term relationship, supportive parents and enough money coming in to pay my bills and order Uber Eats once in a while.
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I can understand why successful people struggle to put a label on depression, after all, if their life looks good on the outside, what is there to be sad about?
Young people are conditioned to believe that a shiny career/relationship and lovely home are the things to strive for, instead of being encouraged to really ask themselves what will truly make them happy and pursuing it, some people chase the glamorous dream life instead. Ignoring our own needs can bring on depression and anxiety.
FFS this is perfectly normal.. you are not meant to feel happy 24/7!!
I've had depression, it wasn't a 'kinda depressed' feeling. Please don't confuse depression (a very serious issue) with just feeling a little bored/unmotivated etc which, as Monster says, are perfectly normal emotions from time to time.
Good job. That's exactly how to reduce stigma about mental illness.