Mental health has been one of the topics that has been discussed in many other platforms since this aspect became well known due to the pandemic. A lot of us experienced a sudden change of lifestyle that we won’t really imagine even in our wildest dreams.
Like what others professional says, the next big challenge that we will all encounter after the pandemic is about “Mental Health”.
I’d been transparent about my journey of losing my job last year. Because of that, I know that my anxiety kicks in due to pressure I put into myself. I remember gaining weight and refuse to come out from my room because I don’t want everyone to see me. My boyfriend deals with my tantrums every now and then since my self-esteem became so low.
I remember having a lot of questions in my head, asking “why me?” because I thought I was doing well and everything is perfect.
By that time, I know a lot of people feels the same may. Bitterness, and in denial will be the first thing that everyone will feel and eventually they’ll be consumed by their anxiety.
As I personally deal with it, there are things that I did which made me to cope up to it faster. It helped not o focus on the things I loss and the time I spent doing nothing. The period that I think I experience for so long became a time for me to build myself again.
Now, here are the things I did which I wanted to share to everyone who still deals with anxiety.
I know I did something wrong in the course of reaching my goals. I forgot Him who’s been there in the very beginning. Without Him I won’t be able to discover what I can do and I will be on the same page still skeptical on what will I do next.
My prayers became insincere. It became like a broken scripted record wherein even I say it out loud, I still find it not genuinely prayed by heart. I literally forgot Him just because I became busy aiming for my goals.
I remember when I got terminated from my job, I never questioned Him about it. I know that it happened for a reason and right then I realized that He wanted me to reach to him again. That night, I cried like a baby. I keep whispering prayer of forgiveness from what I’d done. While praying, I feel a sudden warmness that embrace me and feels like assuring me that it’s done and I’m forgiven.
After that night, I felt like I’m reborn again. I started to look things differently in a way that it became all positive.
People tend to pray every time that they need or ask something, but if we already have those, some tend to forget Him. Some even forget to thank Him. I’m one of those people but I realized everything and reached to Him back again.
I know it’s easy to say, but one thing that we need to do is to not dwell on the sudden change in our life, because everything is carefully made by Him. He will never let us go because He’ll continuously embrace us with His grace. No matter how many wrong turns we’ll do, He will still be in the same place waiting for us to come back.
I’d been a fan of writing all of my feelings rather than saying it out loud. I just think that I don’t want to be misunderstood so writing it down will help me to not deal on any negative feedback on whatever I say.
Every time I feel a sudden change of my feelings, I always write it down for me to have an outlet of my emotions. I always bring with me my journals wherever I go, so even when I started to work as an employee, I still keep a journal up to this day.
When I’m in this period wherein I questioned a lot of things, my journal became my best friend. I remember writing a lot of questions that I badly wanted to ask but find it hard to tell. Almost all the entries are full of painful days of telling myself “Maybe I’m not enough”, not enough on the job that I think I’m secured because people around me appreciate what I’d don for them.
It was a long period of coping and accepting what happened. Now as I look back, I realized that letting out your own feelings can help you to release the pain that you’re suffering. If you think that you don’t want it to tell to anybody and wanted to keep on your own, writing it will still give you a sense of comfort.
Another thing that I discovered that really helped me a lot up to this day, is when I started to listen in Inspirational podcast. It became a habit to me every time I start my day.
It helped me to understand different things in life such as,
If you don’t have any idea where to start, you can first listen to Rob Dial and Jay Shetty’s podcast. They have 15- 60 minutes podcast episode available in Spotify. You can also follow them on their Youtube channels where they also upload their podcast episode.
If you wanted to start your day positively, this will be a best option to do so.
After accepting what’s already done, I started to work on my “revised” plans. Since I started planning from the very start, losing everything also means going back to zero again. Despite of that, I remember planning with a positive outlook in life.
I became more excited in planning and take every opportunity that can help me to grow more and bounce back again. Although I see it hard to start everything again, I accommodate things which I didn’t consider before such as,
We can always start again. No matter how many times we fall, we can still be back on our track again. Hope will always be there especially for those who keeps aiming for their goals.
No matter what happen in our lives, our family will always be there to support us. They will always be present even there’s a thousand miles that separate us.
If you have your love ones when you’re having a tough time, reaching out to them will always be the best choice that you can do. Learn to open up your sufferings, thought, worries and they’ll be all ears listening to you.
When I’m having some sort of challenges in my life, at first, I keep everything to myself just because I don’t want them to be worried. Little did I know that their instinct already tells them that there’s something wrong. Now I keep our connections open. Whatever challenges I have, I always tell it to them.
It doesn’t only make me feel at ease, knowing that I still have their support, I feel more inspired and motivated to start again.
Working employee wherein blogging became my side hobby.
Creator of Living Her Own Life which aims to touch people’s heart and inspire them to achieve their own goals in life.
Writing has been my passion for almost 15 years. Last 2020, I made my very own website where I can share all of my thoughts and stories in life.