Six Days Till Christmas! - Mental Health

Hey! It's Sunday! It's a week until Christmas! Are you excited?! Because I am very excited. The only problem I am currently facing is mental health worries - as you know if you suffer from a mental illness, they don't follow plans and sometimes it doesn't matter if everything is falling into place they will strike and attack anyway. 

I don't much remember last Christmas very well, but I do know I woke up feeling less than my best. I was excited, I love watching my little brother (then 5) open presents and be so happy Santa came and he would sit and play with things all day. I was also putting on an act because I know how much my mother values Christmas, and how she is as sensitive as I am so a little thing like a facial expression change could make her upset. She put so much thought into her gifts, too, and I wanted her to know I appreciated it. 

I remember a Christmas before that where I spent the whole day really upset, drunk and crying the whole day. A reason I don't think I was ever able to identify. I just wasn't feeling very good that morning, and it continued for the rest of the day. 

I'm worried I won't be feeling very good next Sunday, because I haven't been lately. I'm gradually getting better, then I drop, then I get better again. I'm just hoping Sunday isn't one of those "bad days". I just feel like there's a lot of pressure to be happy, when being happy isn't completely possible for me, around this time of year. 

If anyone else is struggling with that side of things, then I can sympathize and I understand. Hope you have a good Christmas though! Just a quick little mental health post. 

Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month

You may or may not be aware of this, but February is the month dedicated to spreading awareness on Marfan Syndrome. 

I am usually the type of person to not give any specific problem special limelight because, in my eyes, it's like saying hey, these problems are more important then others and deserve attention. It's just hard to sometimes pinpoint what problems I should focus on and what problems I should spend less focus on, and what problems I shouldn't talk about at all (if I was to talk about all of them, I would be here forever). 

I usually just opt for focusing on my own personal problems. ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), Social Anxiety and Depression among other things I have gone through or am going through whether good or bad so that other people can learn or be helped or educated on my experiences. Especially because I live it, I at least know a decent amount of information on it. 

I don't actually know anything about this topic, though. I'm here to share this blog post from a woman who actually has this syndrome and wants to share as much information about the topic as she can to the world. I'm simply a messenger she doesn't know she has wanting to spread the post out to anyone who is interested in how they can help or recognise people with Marfan Syndrome. I suggest you follow her for more informative, future posts on the syndrome and help spread the message yourselves so less people die/suffer from it, and can get the correct medical help they need a lot quicker. 

Thank you for reading. 

Loz x