Navigating Mental Health
Dive into the insightful world of mental health with author Jerry Morrissey. Through his personal journey and reflections, Jerry offers a beacon of hope and inspiration for those navigating their own struggles.
Empowering Mental Health Narratives
As an advocate for mental health on a global scale, he strives to share heartfelt insights. Drawing from personal struggles and triumphs, his writings aim to offer solace and inspiration to individuals navigating their own battles with mental wellness. Join him on this journey towards self-acceptance and empowerment.
Exploring Mental Health Narratives
It is difficult to explain to anyone why you would want to kill yourself. As a living entity, your instinct is always to survive. However, in your darkest days, you end up in a sort of inward spiral and consumed by your own negativity that you cannot get out of or stop. Your headspace is consumed with such circular thoughts that you think the only option is death.
"Although I had physically healed from my operation and was no longer taking sleeping pills or painkillers, I had never taken the time to heal mentally. I had never really addressed the post-traumatic stress from my early life with Big Jerry, either. Consuming vast amounts of alcohol was my way of coping with life and it seemed to numb the mental pain I was clearly in. I had all sorts of emotions and a great deal of confusion. I didn’t really know who I was nor what I was up to. Alcohol was a crutch and I had no control over it."
"I was becoming consumed with my own negativity, and I couldn’t discuss it with anyone. There seemed to be no way of stopping it. I also knew I’d done really badly in the recent exams and that thought was adding to my distress – failure yet again… Then one day, I just decided to end it. I couldn’t take it anymore and there seemed no point in continuing. I polished off a fair amount of alcohol and swallowed a bottle of painkillers the doctors had given me after the operation."