#BRAINWAVE

From @IAMBORED_NARUTOHELPME for our #BRAINWAVE segment

PTSD stands for-Post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. In simple terms, PTSD is like when something so traumatic happens that cause a scar on your mind. But unlike the normal external wound that can be fixed with some antibiotics, this is something that can’t be fixed easily by medicine. It’s the mind that is broken and fixed only by the efforts of the person themselves. The effort to confront the traumatic situation they were in and move on from it. The therapy and medicine are just ways to manage it, not a quick fix like one we use in when we hurt ourselves riding our bikes and mom applies medicine for us. But even the people suffering from PTSD need help for someone to pick them up when they fall.

Usually when people, even me, first hear the word OCD what comes first to mind is clean freak like Monica in Friends who cleans obsessively. It’s time to correct that way of thinking. OCD - stands for Obsessive compulsive disorder. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic, and long-lasting that she or he feels the urge to repeat over and over. When defined separately; Obsessions are thoughts, images or impulses that occur over and over again and feel outside of the person’s control. Compulsions, are repetitive behaviors or thoughts that a person uses with the intention of neutralizing, counteracting, or making their obsessions go away. In simple words, It’s as if your mind is compelling you to do something you rather not. Imagine the feeling you get when you go out but sudden feel that you didn’t turn off your stove at home. Then you’re compelled to imagine your house exploding in your mind. Making You run to check if you really did turn it off or shake that feeling off after being sure you turned it off. That feeling is not even close to what OCD go through every day. The compelling thought of needing to do something or else imagining the worst. That feeling we had is the day to day life of OCD victims.

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@AYMIND

One week into THIRD ISSUE of AYMIND. How did you find it?

"You spend your life just an inch from madness. You don't know it but that's one of the tricks of Madness. You break a leg, you know it. You get the measles, you know it but madness is the drift of the rational mind into the irrational, the lucid into the delusional. It's not always easy to see as it's happening. At what point does joy become mania, sadness become depression, apprehension become anxiety, fear become phobia? We value imagination but not hallucination. Yet they are close kin."

- Jeffery Kluger, TIME magazine

Take care of your mind. It's worth the care.


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A wondrous piece from our wonderful writer @LiyaMekonnen

I wish for my mother’s arms to hide me away. There is war in my country.

“Ema, is it going to be ok?”

She hugs me but Mother’s arms have lost their magic. They are now merely bones and muscles. Mother does not think it will be ok. She is just like me, scared. I wrap my own bones and muscles around her.

The hate and the fear we feel towards this cause of pain collides. Hate keeps fear from reacting and fear keeps hate from going away. The small cracks get bigger till the bridge to the other land breaks. Pieces, that is what we are left with.

I do not want to think about the new orphan searching for his mother among the red marked sleeping people on the ground. I do not want to imagine the wails of the wife of for her husband to come back. I do not want to think about her children wondering why mommy does not stop crying. A father’s world crumples after having lost his child and I am here.

How do I fit into all this horror? Where is a young girl like me placed in this horridness? Would it be that I could be soon holding Mother who had taken her last breath in my arms or she holding me in the end? It seems like a world divided in two.

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Fact:

Suicide is a major global public health issue, resulting in 800 000 deaths every year across the world. Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14-20% of global suicides and is particularly common in low-income and middle-income countries where small-scale farming enables easy access to highly hazardous pesticides.

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Cracked pots

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water..

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?'

'That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.'

For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.'

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

SO, to all of my cracked pot sisters, brothers and friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

And send this to any or all of your Cracked Pot sisters, brothers and friends and see what a smile you will put on their faces.

@AYMIND
@AYMIND

"It's okay if you were getting better but now you aren't. It's okay if today wasn't as great as yesterday. It's okay if your day didn't go the way you wanted it to. Recovery isn't easy. It's slow and there are sooo many obstacles, it doesn't happen over night. It will feel like you will never get better but that's your mental illness talking.
It does get better, it's just a very slow, long journey to that recovery and honestly you can do it. The biggest part of recovery is not giving up. I believe in You."

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አሜሪካዊቷ በአእምሮ ህመም ምክኒያት ኦሎምፒኩን አቋረጠች
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አሜሪካዊቷ ጂምናስት ሲሞን ባይልስ ከዚህ በፊት በነበሩት ኦሎምፒኮች ብዙ የወርቅ ሜዳሊያዎች የሰበሰበች ጠንካራ ስፖርተኛ ናት። በዘንድሮው የቶኪዮ ኦሎምፒክ አሜሪካ ከሲሞን ብዙ ሜዳሊያዎች ትጠብቅ ነበር።

የሴቶች የጂምናስቲክ ፍፃሜ ውድድር ላይ የመጀመሪያ ሙከራዋ ጥሩ አልነበረም። ሲሞን ውድድሩን ከዛ በላይ መቀጠል አልፈለገችም። "ከፍተኛ ውጥረት ውስጥ ስለነበርኩ መቀጠል አልቻልኩም። ከውድድሩ ይልቅ የአእምሮ ጤናዬ ይበልጣል።" ብላ ጥላ ሄደች።

የአእምሮ ህመም ማን ላይ መቼ እንደሚከሰት መገመት አይቻልም። ግን የአእምሮ ጤና ከብዙ ነገሮች በላይ ትኩረት ሊሰጠው የሚገባ ነው። ሲሞን ለብዙዎች ምሳሌ ነሽ። ምን ያህል ጭንቀት ውስጥ እንደነበረሽ እንገምታለን። ቶሎ ወደ አእምሮ ጤንነትሽ እንድትመለሺ እንመኛለን።

ያለ አእምሮ ጤና፤ ጤና የለም!
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