September 6 marked the beginning of Body image and Eating Disorder awareness week, September 9 - today - marks R U OK? Day and, tomorrow, September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day.
This week, more than ever we shed light and awareness on mental health and mental illness.
Although I think it's important to add, there is mental health and then there is mental illness. There is a difference.
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The ramifications of this pandemic have thrown discussions and conversations surrounding mental health and psychological wellbeing into the spotlight more than ever.
It's been a welcome change, and good to hear these conversations normalised.
Perhaps it's taken a pandemic to encourage, teach and allow us to speak comfortably about something that should have always been spoken about?
Or are these discussions and the acknowledgement of the importance of mental health and wellbeing normalised only in the context of COVID-19? Will this continue on as we slowly return to 'normal', the chaos that is everyday life?
I am unsure if this is an observation of my generation, or whether this is representative of a societal change at large.
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