Under the Knife

There probably won't be a post tomorrow.  I am having a routine surgery and will be drugged up most of the day.  Should go simple and easy.  Nothing like having surgery to ring in a say good bye to the month and start the next month with healthier eating...  Ah who am I kidding.  At the first chance to make a cheesecake, I am doing it.  Yum.

The world is trying to start being more open and accepting of people who suffer from mental illnesses.  You can see it in the TV shows, read it in books and news articles, and even hear it in music.  With all this acceptance it should be easy to go seek help, right?  Wrong.  Just because the world has put a shiny label on something does not mean it is easier to get help or even come out with what is wrong.  It is still a struggle to acknowledge, even to myself sometimes, that I am only getting better because I am taking a little pill and talking to someone who is little more than a stranger about what I think my issues are.

Depression is only one of the numerous crippling mental health issues that people of this day and age deal with.  Anxiety runs rampant through the youth as the prospects outside of school become grim.  Not just in the youth, but everywhere.  Men and woman are rushing in the human race and sometimes there is too much pressure.  In fact, Anxiety is the most common mental illness in the U.S.  Affecting 18% of the population.  Anorexia and Bulimia sweep through both women and men as the world prints digitally enhanced photos with the underlying context, "You Must Look Like This To be Considered Attractive."  Setting impossible standards that are unhealthy and unrealistic.  

These are but a few of the many mental health issues/illness that are in being made "mainstream".  Only about one third of those suffering actually receive treatment.  One half of those diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with anxiety.  With anxiety alone there are many sub categories.  There are many treatment options available with each one.

I know some will say, "It is just the pharmaceutical companies making money of people.  Creating new 'illnesses' so they can sell more drugs."  I am not fond of pharmaceutical companies in general but I am grateful to be able to have something that helps me.  I will not get into the wrongs of those companies right now, if ever.  I am just glad that those I know who take something to help them get through the day without bringing harm to themselves or to those around them, have it available to them.

This post really has no rhyme or reason to it.  Some small peeks into the labyrinth that is my mind.  I haven't had enough tea lately to make sense of most of it.

Did I mention....... IT IS AUTUMN!!!!! My favorite season.  Not for the pumpkin spice junk.  But for sweaters, apple cider, pie, cake, or just plain apples!  The colors of the trees and the sharp, crisp breath of the breeze.  Corn mazes, pumpkin patches, spice cookies, Halloween!,  Mr. Boogity,  Hocus Pocus, The Tale of Icabod Crane, and so much more!  All these things give a perfect setting for bonfires, wood smoke, clear and starry nights.  The only thing that would make this season better is if it would just freeze at the time when the trees are in full color, the bugs are gone and I have an apple in my hand.  No need for winter.  I am good.