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“The purpose of life is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for
newer and richer experience.”
So, the other
week was a bit hectic, wasn’t it?! I don’t know if it showed – I really hope it
did – but I put a lot of effort into creating the content that was published
every day for Mental Health Awareness Week (if you missed it, the re-cap about
each day is here: RE-CAP
| MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK: DAY SEVEN | I'm NOT Disordered
(imnotdisordered.co.uk)). With the amount of time and effort in mind, I had
the brilliant idea of treating myself after it and having visited – and loved –
Leeds before, I began trawling through booking.com for hotels and then National
Rail for train price; and the trip kind of snowballed from there…
My first
consideration in travelling:
The first thing I really considered as the plans and arrangements
and bookings were starting to take shape, was my mental health. You know when
you’re in the habit of doing something to the point where even when you don’t
need to do it anymore, you continue to? This was like that. I mean, my mental
health has been so stable for what feels like forever now, and that stability
feels pretty concrete; but I still feel the need to think about how a certain
plan or event etc will impact it.
I think a huge reason for this is because I’ve now seen what it looks like when I don’t think about my mental health. When I don’t carefully consider what decisions would be best for it. It’s kind of like with my medication too… I’ve seen how terrible the hallucinations get without it and that makes me really reluctant to ever have the dose decreased or for it to completely stop. Of course, this is mostly a good, positive thing and is a huge reason I’m safe.