Do not wait to get help

 

whether you are suffering from stress, loneliness, depression, PTSD, and more, do not wait to get help.

 

This is no laughing matter. This is a severe condition... if I repeat things over and over it is because at times I do lose my train of thought, please pray for me.

 

Waiting to get mental help can be costly and, yes, even deadly. Mental health issues are nothing to take lightly. I know I suffer from PTSD. When you hear the term emotional health, what mental illness is the first thing that usually comes into one's mind?

 

Mental health affects the way one also thinks the way one acts and feels. But with God's help dealing with mental health or mental illness, you can find effective ways to manage the stress it makes choices and relate to other people.

 

Mental health does not just affect older people. Military personnel law enforcement mental health can affect anyone from a young child two an elderly person in various stages of your life. As I said, I suffer from PTSD and know that mental health issues can affect your behavior. You can have a mood swing in just your thinking can be thrown off.

 

It took me a while to seek help in a lot of things occurred, I denied that I needed help it could have cost me my marriage or even my life.

 

It could have caused my kids to push away from me, which did happen at one point. However, I thank God for having the supportive family that made me seek the help I needed.

 

Several factors can contribute to mental health issues it could be family history life is strange is that includes abuse or some trauma, and yes, it can consist of brain chemistry.

 

I know for me getting help has helped me to be able to maintain positive ineffective mental health. I have been able to cope with certain things that I was not able to manage before.

 

Yes, I still experience times of sadness depression at times I do not even want to go outside my house, but because of the help, I am receiving I have made a promise to connect with other people to go out of the house even if it is just walking down my block. But I am so thankful to God for the professional help that he had blessed me to get.

 

I know that some do not want to admit they need help I was one of those persons. To speak on mental health, some want to shy away from that. However, mental illness as I said before, is considered a business order affecting one's mood, thinking and behavior yes, I know again, I am one of those people.

 

The term mental illness covers a broad range of disorders like I mentioned depression, it even covers schizophrenia, but this podcast is to help you understand the mental illness is treatable.

 

 Our brain is a physical organ like the lungs kidneys and yes if our brain becomes subject to illness and damage it is just like the other organs are. But remember this our brain controls everything we do,.

 

and if our brain malfunctions it can distort our perception lead to hurtful or harmful thoughts and actions, and if you are Christian, I am a Christian and I know at one point in time my PTSD calls me to distort my view of God and others.

 

and yes, mental illness can contribute to our sinful nature and behavior have you heard the old saying an idle mind and hands is the devil's playground. To be clear mental illness is still not fully understood by any medical professional because mental illness has a variety of factors that contributed to the state of mind.

 

These factors can be physical, such as brain abnormalities, hormonal imbalances, and neurotransmitter impairments. Even things like nutrition, exercise, and sleep affect mental health. I know for me that the proper medication and the competent therapy that I receive it has helped me to alleviate these symptoms, and I know it can help you also so do not wait to get help.

 

We also need to consider the way that our behavior feeds into our physical health and our physical health feedback into our behavior. I know for me that times of