Mental Health is NOT a Luxury

Can I tell you a story? For most of my life I’ve suffered from anxiety. My earliest memories of anxiety happened about the time I began public school. Untreated, this anxiety-which included social anxiety, performance anxiety and generalized anxiety continued to escalate. In my early twenties, PTSD was added to the list. By my early thirties,  I began to experience panic, developed tremors, and had so much muscle tension  it became difficult to even brush my teeth. That is when I finally got help. Over the years,  I had been misdiagnosed with  both asthma and irritable bowel syndrome. Once I finally began a regimen of massage therapy, seeing a chiropractor, and going to counseling, things began to improve. However, another traumatic event showed me that the “healing” I’d experienced so far wasn’t really that deep. The treatments were just that-treatments, but NOT healing. The most healing I’d experienced was probably spiritually, in learning about the atonement of Jesus Christ and how to really utilize it. It wasn’t until I found intuitive healing-also spiritual in nature-that I really began to HEAL-more fully and deeply than ever before. What I’m hoping people learn from this story is that: 

MENTAL HEALTH IS NOT A LUXURY. IT IS WHAT WE WERE ALWAYS MEANT TO HAVE AND IT IS POSSIBLE!!!!!