![]() ![]() Embracing the fact that you’re NOT fine opens the door to real experiences. If you commit yourself to a life of ‘fine’, you’ll never experience real happiness or overwhelming joy. Although we will all encounter some difficult and heartbreaking times in our life, things can and will get better. Find someone to share with, start a journal, or find another outlet that will allow you to safely decompress. To avoid the inevitable explosion, let your ‘air’ out in small increments. You fill your balloon with anxiety, grief, pain, and panic, and you expand until eventually, you pop lashing out at those around you, or turning the explosion inward and having a breakdown. You’ll recognize this behaviour if you’re consistently the type to bottle things up. The more you store up these emotions, the more likely you are to ‘burst’ at a later time. ![]() It's not healthy to suppress your feelings, whether its anger, grief, anxiety or anything else. You’re finite - there is only so much you can hold, only so far you can stretch before you’re going to pop. It might be stressful at first, but over time you will feel your body begin to relax. You might not be able to unload on everyone, but you can find a few people to trust and let them in. If you’re dealing with mental illness, chances are you’re already running on empty the added stress of being chipper and upbeat might just be enough to push you over the edge. When you suppress your emotions and go through life as though you’re not anxious or depressed, it takes more and more of your energy to keep up the act. ![]() Plain and simple, putting on a front all day every day will wear you out. Here are five reasons why you should stop saying “I’m fine.” 1. Getting into your life story with the girl behind the counter at Starbucks? You can be fine.īut when someone is genuinely asking you about the state of your life, your mental health, or how you’ve been coping, saying that you’re fine causes more harm than good. That coworker who is only asking how you are so they can share their story about the weekend? Fine is fine. Sure, there’s a time and a place where ‘fine’ is appropriate. It’s usually part of a standard greeting and its one of the most common lies we tell. If it's not “fine”, it's “I’m okay”, or maybe even an “I’m good” through a fake smile. TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice.Twenty times a day, we utter the words “I’m fine.” You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: note that TheJournal.ie uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies policy. Depression is an insidious illness that leaves people feeling hopeless and alone. News images provided by Press Association and Photocall Ireland unless otherwise stated. After being diagnosed with depression last year, 20-year-old student Bekah Miles decided to get a tattoo that accurately captured her battle with the disorder. Burdened with such darkness, many people who suffer do not even know how to. She posted a picture of the tattoo on Facebook along with a few words about her personal experience. The image reads 'I'm fine' to most, but from Miles' perspective, the tattoo says 'save me. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography unless otherwise stated. Wire service provided by Associated Press. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. When Bekah Miles wrote about depression in a Facebook post, she did not expect it to have the impact it did when it went viral. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites. Her post was intended for her friends and family to read, and she starts it by coming forward with being diagnosed with depression, a mental illness that countless people suffer from. #Depression im fine save me tattoo code.
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