How does one cope with someone else who is also suffering from mental burnout, life stresses, potentially undiagnosed mental illness?
There are lots of content put out there for mental health awareness and what not. Dealing with sexism. Dealing with just about anything and everything. People go through a lot.
Being empathetic, staying 'woke' of such issues, etc., now that's a duty on you. You're not mentally unwell, so you're privileged, and you have to be aware! And you're a man!
I want to say, suicide rates of men are higher than women and I can very clearly understand why.
Mental issues or what not, how we manifest them is different from people to people. I think I handle my stresses well. But I don't think I handle other people's stress as well. And that in turn, stresses me even more. Like truly.
I know they have gone through a lot and had to put up with everything. But that is also a load on me that I bear, and more.
Any kind of things I don't do, becomes unhelpful. Then I become unempathetic.
When I 'turn it around', it's seen that it's all about me, and that I am also uncaring.
Do people even see what I go through, doing what I am doing? But by saying that, means people think I'm saying someone else is the problem.
If I say it's not, it becomes contradictory.
It's just, a lot. For me, as well. And it can be much more overbearing for me than one can fathom.
Yet, it is me who 'don't understand'.
I am the problem.
Maybe it really is all about me.
Let me be me.