Rocking Mental Health: The Podcast - With Jason Kehl

There are walls built up around mental health. There is a stigma that has surrounded mental health and mental illness. We are not supposed to talk about how we feel mentally. We are programmed to suck it up. It has begun to get better and some of the stigma has lessened, but the walls need to be torn down. We have to be able to talk about our mental health. Talking about it needs to become as normal as going to the doctor for an injury or when we physically don't feel well. We all need to stand up and fight and tear down the walls surrounding mental health!

Patience is required when undergoing treatment for your mental health.  Some aspects of treatment can move quickly, but most of it takes time.  It's easy to get frustrated through this time.  We need to remember to be patient through the process.  Also, we need to step back and acknowledge how far we have come through our journey.  Guns N Roses said it best "All We Need Is Just A Little Patience".

I've now told my story as it pertains to my mental health and mental illness journey.  We've talked about what happened and also what I felt like when I got out of the hospital. 

In this Episode, I will talk about one of the keys to building our mental health having a strong core group or circle of trust around us.  We need people we can lean on when we are not at our best.  A group of people you know will drop everything to be there for you whether it be in person or on the phone.

I hope you enjoy the latest episode of Jason Kehl's Basement Of Jams: Rocking Mental Health.

Please "like" and "share" my Podcast.  I feel so many more people can benefit from what we have going on here.  Our stories are not the same, but they can be relatable and we need to get the message out regarding mental health awareness.

In this episode, I go into what I felt like when I got out of the hospital. The super high and the fall back to earth. The Honeymoon Phase, as I call it, to feeling normal again which felt like a huge drop compared to the Honeymoon Phase energy I felt after I got out of the hospital. I hope you enjoy!

Today, I lay out my story.  What led me to seek out help for depression and anxiety.  What led me to stop doing it on my own.  My story isn't the same as yours and your story isn't the same as mine, mine is no better or worse, but this is the story I know.  I feel that by throwing my story out there, we can then get to other aspects, down the road, that can help each of us get to stronger mental health.  Please take a listen and thank you!

I am about mental health awareness.  I am not a professional in the space, but more of a client. The Basement of Jams came about as an idea I had for a Facebook Group (Feel free to join-it goes by the same name).  I wanted it to be a place that was similar to when musicians get together and jam.  They each bring their individual talents and instruments to the jam session.  When these are put together the real magic is made.  I have started a group on Facebook where everyone can share.  I've started a blog as well.  I share music that I have made in the Basement Of Jams there as well.  All of these together form the jam session that I hope creates the magic.  The jam session that I hope to continue here.  The goal is mental health awareness.  The goal is to knock down the stigmas that surround mental health and talking about it openly.  It is OK to not be OK. I hope you enjoy!