Your mental health - your psychological, emotional and social well-being - impacts every area of your life. Having positive mental health allows you to deal with the daily stressors of life effectively, communicate well with others, make healthy decisions, and live life to its fullest. But sometimes, struggles with mental illnesses and addiction can make it seem like achieving a healthy mental state is impossible.

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Emotional pain is not something that should be hidden away and never spoken about. There is truth in your pain, there is growth in your pain, but only if it’s first brought out into the open. You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.