Getting Outside for My Mental Health
I’m finally on the upswing after a rough couple of weeks. A mixture of physical health problems, stressful situations, and frustrations with clients aiding in my decline into a bad mental place. On top of that, I stumbled across a video on Twitter of a young creative who was ready to end his own life. And for the next few days he went radio silent… Seemingly having followed through.
I don’t know the guy, and I likely never will interact with him. But as someone who has struggled on and off with similar thoughts, it hit home. Thankfully, I found out this morning that he is okay. He posted another video today.
All of that put together led me to having a rough week or two. But thankfully I’ve had many rough weeks before and I likely will have many more, and because of this I generally know how to fight my way, tooth and nail, out of them. And here we are on the other side of it.
One major contributing factor to my improvement was time I spend outdoors - and away from social media doomscrolling. One of the ways I was able to keep my mind occupied was by spending a few hours helping my friend Sam on his small farm.
And of course I documented it all.
Thanks for sticking with me. I’ll be back soon.