Get A Grip!

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We Can All Get A Grip

I was always told, and always told others, that you should never tell anyone struggling with mental illness to “get a grip.”

It was like saying walk it off, cheer up, can’t you be happy, just for once?

It was insulting and hurtful and suggested a lack of understanding of mental illness, as though you have some kind of control.

But as I finally started to address my own mental health struggles, I not only realized that I could get a grip of many of my mental health challenges, and be much better off for it, but that we all have the ability to get a strong grip on our mood, happiness, and mental health.