I cannot help but notice how there are plenty of people out there that are dealing with the awful symptoms of a mental illness. The numbers are rising because life itself seems to be getting more difficult. Problems that we must face are increasing.

I myself have two mental illnesses and recently they have been acting up a lot, with out the proper medication I need and the proper help I need it's hard to deal with. I do, however, have a few words to say.

For some time things may seem like they are getting better. I know plenty of times I have thought that I was getting better and that things could only get better, not worse. Then it hits me as I'm sure it does many people out there. Depression, thoughts of self-harm, and lack of self-esteem. Anxiety. Hallucinations. It's hard and then I start believing that it was all a lie. I'm only getting worse. I'll never get better.

Wait. It may take a few days, even weeks, until you start to feel better. Don't ever believe you're not getting better and don't ever think you're falling into the grips of the mental illness that seems to control your life. Don't let it control you, don't ever. That's what it wants. It wants to make you it's little slave.

Try to think of the future, think about your dreams. Try to escape to a happy place even, remember a time in your life that you were very happy. The happiest memory you have. It will help. If you end up giving in to the mental illness, if you end up hurting yourself, don't start thinking that you'll do it again. Thoughts like that will lead to you doing it again.

Stay strong folks. Life is difficult right now as wars and earth quicks are happening. While our economy is getting worse. Stay true to yourself and always talk with someone if you feel the need to. Let's gather our hands and battle these illnesses. Let's start our little stand of our own before this worlds becomes a mental illness world.