Mental health, a right

Psychotherapy is a necessity and not a luxury. We are increasingly moving towards a society where mental health care ceases to be marginalized and becomes a current factor, part of our daily lives.
   
Mental health problems have always been present, however, due to socio-economic constraints and the characteristics of our context, we relegated caring for ourselves to the background. And we became people like that, without real knowledge about us.
   
We are often suspended, busy with everything but ourselves, distant from us. When we look for ourselves, we find in the mirror the reflection of someone we don't know, the distant echo of a person we were or would like to be.
   
We are filled with doubts and do very little with them. We throw them into a secluded corner and don't pick them up again until that song overflows with parts of us that want to make ourselves heard.
   
The pandemic that catapulted us, out of necessity, into the refuge of our homes, also reorganized our way of being, made us reevaluate our priorities. And we realize that the search for meaning, the care for our well-being, does not represent a luxury, but rather a basic principle of our existence that tends to remain unfulfilled.
   
'I don't have time for this' easily resonates within us. We are delaying what afflicts us until tomorrow and we are feeding the well-known 'meaningless today'. What is one of the most sacred needs of the being, is overshadowed by our lack of time, by our work, by the excuses we push over this, in the hope of a secret and silent resolution.
   
Our admirable new world lives here, in what we have to discover, in the purpose for which we orient ourselves and which we occasionally ignore, which we hope will reveal itself without doing, as far as possible, little or nothing.

We need to realize that problems like anxiety don't go away without talking about them, that being sad and vulnerable is not a weakness. We need to face all of this.
   
Repeating the same old patterns is not enough, it's not enough to wait for the problems to pass. We just need to abandon the archaic conceptions to which we have become accustomed and begin to realize that well-being is not superfluous and mental health is a right.

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