"Mental Health matters" daw
"Mental health matters" not until it starts showing its nuances in ways people can’t stomach anymore, hanggang sa sinusuka na nila yung mismong realidad nito.
You don’t really see it for what it is until it stops being gentle. Until it stops being something you can explain in pretty words. Until the nuances turn sharp, cutting through the version of you that kept trying to stay “okay.”
Kasi aminin man natin o hindi, mental health is only valid for some people when it behaves. Kapag tahimik kang nagdurusa. Kapag hindi ka disruptive. Kapag kaya pang i-romanticize yung pagbo-bottle up mo ng emotions mo. Pero the moment it gets loud, messy, and inconvenient for them, when the nuances start to look like anger, like breakdowns, like words you can’t take back, biglang “ikaw ang may problema," biglang, “ayusin mo kasi sarili mo.”
Is pain only acceptable when it whispers and endures silently?
Tas pag nag crash out ka, when all those nuances collapse into one uncontrollable moment, ikaw na agad ang pinakamasamang kontrabida.
Because once it’s no longer clean, no longer contained, no longer easy to understand, they don’t see the nuances anymore. They just see something they can blame and condemn.
And that’s the ugliest truth of it. "Mental health matters" kuno pero they reject the parts of it that couldn't stay composed.