Living day by day and moment to moment

By Letter to the Editor on May 2, 2018.

“Being mentally healthy means you feel good about life, you’re reaching your potential and you’re accomplishing your goals.” This is a quote I saw on Twitter from a local mental health agency.

I have never met a mental health consumer that feels this way, and not a lot of people, but maybe I am being cynical.

Of course it depends on the day, or the hour, but nobody feel this way all the time, do they. I feel good about life when I realize there are a lot of people who are worse off, and I am just glad I have enough to eat and a roof over my head.

I know I have a helped a lot of people in my life and I don’t worry about what more I can do or about what more I can accomplish, I just try to do my best every day. I keep my goals simple, like getting out of bed every day. Everything else is gravy, it’s an accomplishment.

It’s not like the stuff I have to do is going to done by someone else there are no little elves in my life. I get a lot done when I am manic (it is spring, I am manic). And when I am depressed a bit of it piles up, it will get done eventually.

My point is take life day by day and moment to moment and function best we can. I do not worry about what good mental health is anymore. I am just happy that I am here and functioning.

Diane MacNaughton

Medicine Hat

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