PART 2 - 10/10 - World Mental Health Day - A Reflection On

It is important that a distinction be drawn between coping and healthily coping, because often, it is easy to believe that just staying alive, is coping. Sometimes it is. And sometimes, one feels like as long as those around them are happy, that is enough. This is not always healthy.

Coping is defined as managing, or surviving or subsisting or dealing with a challenge. Blogger, Wanda D. Savage says there are mechanisms employed in so dealing, which are activities that help us work through hard times. It is important that those living with mental health disorders have coping mechanisms to help move beyond the problem, gain control and process certain situations. Healthy coping mechanisms are those that not only make you feel good, but help you move towards a space of emotional processing, physical wellness and even a state of self-care.