MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUP: thoughts
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In case you missed the subject line (sarcasm), this is the Mental Health Support Group. Nasty comments are not appreciated here.
Most of us have never been and/or never will be mental health professionals or even health professionals of any kind. Not everyone wants to be, and not everyone is cut out to be one. That's cool, I'd rather have a mental health/health professional who actually wants to be one and is suited for it. Happy providers make for good providers.
However, there is one thing you can do to improve/maintain the mental health of anyone you come into contact with, whether it be in person, email, Skype, Snapchat, Instagram, telephone, etc etc etc (too lazy to devote five minutes to listing every way I know of).
Be kind. If you can't be kind, be quiet. Yes, sometimes you have to say something "unkind", to your own children, grandchildren, a relative, etc in order to help him/her and/or protect your own well-being. I've had to do it myself, and not proud of it, but there it is.
You see it on this board all the time. Granted, a high proportion of the abrasive people are trolls. Someone says something they would not dare say in real life, or maybe they just are that nasty. A fight breaks out here. Things go south. A lot of the time an opinion can be expressed in a non-abrasive way. Yes, text conveys very little.
We all have our struggles, whether they be mental health, financial, physical, etc etc etc. Even rich ******* like Trump have theirs UGH. I have no sympathy for the *******, but.... even rich people have theirs. Famous people have theirs.
Kindness makes the world a better place. Even if you just refrain from saying something that is 100% true. Does it really need to be said or typed ? Sometimes, yes it does. Other times, it's debatable.
At any rate... I think all of we regulars in here agree with this. The non-regulars ? Perhaps not.
If you disagree, that's cool. We can agree to disagree.
Best wishes to everyone. I'm trying to be kind, and God knows I fail.
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It's so right. Kindness is something we can all do better at being.
I always try to remember to be kind. I've had enough unkindness directed at me that I know how much it can hurt, or even damage. So I always try to be kind.
I think it was Emerson who said: "Life is short, but there's always time for courtesy." You can substitute the word kindness there and it works just as well.
Moreso than anyone else I can think of, and there's a lot of kind people on DU, and especially in our group here. Best wishes for you, Peggy. 
There are many kind folks here.........I am lucky to be one of them.