Mental Health Awareness Month 1

Hello everybody! I hope you all are having a great week and a great first week of May!

If you all did not know, May is Mental Health Awareness month. As a mental health blogger, I wish that would be for every month, but I digress. Anyways, every single week this month, I will publish a blogpost about a different mental health topic.

For this week, I want to briefly discuss a devastating story that occurred earlier this week. A freshman cheerleader who attended Southern University and A&M college in Louisiana died this week after posting a distressing message on her Instagram.

Arlana Miller was a 19 year old freshman who was a cheerleader at Southern University.

I contemplated if I wanted to post her note on my blog, but I do not think I have the heart. I cried reading it.

I do not know her. I had never met her. But I cried, hard.

I don't want to get too deep into this, because I know this is a sensitive topic for most people. Including me. But I do want anyone reading this to know that you are loved, you are heard, and the world needs you.

If you think you aren't loved and that no one cares for you, I want you to know that I do. I care for you. I love you.

And for those battling these thoughts and emotions alone, please speak to someone. It can be your youth pastor, your therapist, a friend, even me. Please, talk to someone about these things. I feel like so many people hold their emotions and feelings down and when they're gone, their loved ones always say, "I didn't even know they were going through that." Don't fight this alone. Talk to someone, please.

We will get through this together.

I love you, and I care for you.

-Kay

If you or someone you know is in a crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.