My Mental Health Journey

In this episode, I share my personal experience in 2012 being committed to a psychiatric institution against my will. I speak about how I got there, what it was like inside, and what I have learned in the years since about how to maintain mental wellness to the best of my ability.

In a world where there is silence around mental health issues, it is my hope to help normalize these struggles as well as work toward erasing the stigma.

There is hope, and together we can make progress.

Reviews

TY,

For sharing your story. May others adopt this additive towards mental health and mental wellness, so they too can live a more fulfilled whole life.

Namaste

🕊️Peace🤸 Shalom 🐵

Thank you for your openess and vulnerability. That was encouraging to me.

Thank you Azriela for sharing these podcasts on mental illness. Very informational and confirmation I need to protect my own mental health while providing for my parents whom are in their 90s and still live at home but should be in an assisted living. My mother now has some dimentia on top of other mental issues. It’s been almost impossible at times trying to deal with her because she will not acknowledge anything is wrong with her and has never sought help in my lifetime of 67 years! I’ve tried to have her committed once but they wouldn’t do anything because she wasn’t suicidal but my dad tried to take his life because he couldn’t take it any longer. That was about 6 or 7 years ago. He can go to a veteran’s nursing home but he refuses to leave her and she refuses to go anywhere. I’m the only child and some days it’s more than I can even comprehend about how long this could go on. Meditation has been life changing for me and kept me sane! 💜