Written by: Arpan Acharya - 23010, Grade XI
Posted on: 15 December, 2021
Have you ever had so much load in your head that you felt heavy? Have you ever been through so much stress that it feels that your nerves are cracking? I bet you have unless you live in heaven, I mean you're “dead”. Everyone gets tense sometimes and goes through catastrophes and It’s pretty normal. But having frequent mental breakdowns is a different issue. Breakdowns are so disruptive that they disable you from performing your normal day-to-day tasks effectively.
You feel exhausted, everything seems chaotic. You get paranoid, it seems that the whole world, gravity and simply everything is against you. Too many bad things come flooding in, that make you filled with a lot of complexities and just at that moment mental breakdowns happen. Basically it’s when you cannot handle the complexities that occur in your life. You cannot comprehend the state or situation you are in.
After being through such a state very often deteriorates your ability to deal with complexities. Then even a minor inconvenience can lead to breakdowns and other reactions. What other people see is that you are being very uncertain and anxious to cry or get disturbed by such a small thing and even you can think why am I being distracted by such a trivial subject. But deep down even you know that what bothered you was not just that small problem. What caused that breakdown was years of repressed emotions and not having a person to share your feelings. Why you had to suffer that terrible feeling was you had unhealthy and over expectations from others. Huge changes that's happening in your life such as migration, parents getting divorced or scenarios like that can deeply result in nervous breakdown. Also the grind or hustle mindset that is trending in today’s world has led towards success but it is also true that majority of the times it has caused mental breakdowns. Sedentary lifestyle and sleep deprivation might be the other causes.
Now what you have to work is on the right coping mechanisms. No solution is better than healing yourself with happiness. Heavy stress is created when you constantly work in the field where you have no interest so find something that you are really passionate about. Plant euphoria in yourself. By euphoria I am not encouraging you to do drugs or alcohol, you can generate euphoria by getting that dopamine hit. Ecstatic dances are beautiful, all you have to do is lock yourself in a room, close the curtains and move your body like no one is seeing you. Laugh like a maniac. Not to forget exercises are always great for that dopamine spike in your brain. Sleep tight & eat right. It’s not that substance that's making you high, it’s the chemical inside you. It’s you. You are magic, nothing else.
