Welcome back to Hello, Kita! Let’s talk mental health. I see a lot of folks using that these days to get out of murder and other stuff these days. So everybody has a mental health issue? The only way I’ll believe it is if they have a history of documented (from real doctors) paperwork that says they have a problem. If they were never diagnosed or never had a paper trail of mental illness, then I’m going to just believe you are evil.
My first introduction to mental health was with my Aunt. I was in middle school, came home off the bus, and was walking to my grandma’s house. She lived down a long dirt road. As I was getting closer to the house, I saw my Aunt run out of the house butt naked. I was like OMG we are being robbed, and she must have just gotten out of the shower. I threw my bookbag to the ground and started running too (that’s what black folks do). I called her name several times, and she didn’t answer me. Odd…there was a creek in front of the driveway up to my grandmother’s house; she was running straight towards it. I slowed down and realized that she was running into the creek. She did, and thank goodness it was low tide. I started screaming to the neighbors across the creek to call 911. I didn’t want to get in the water to help her because last time I didn’t listen to my mom, I got my ass beat, so I was just telling her to hold on to something, but she didn’t hear me. The ambulance and police came; they were able to get her, and they took her away. Later, I asked my mom what happened and she said oh she has a mental illness. Nobody told me shat. I found out as an adult that it was Schizophrenia. She had another episode when I was in high school, but by this time I was afraid to be in the same room with her. Whenever I stayed at her house, I would lock the bedroom door I was in and put a chair up against it. She had only had about 3 episodes since that first one I saw, but I had seen enough.
Please take mental health seriously. Most of them won’t hurt you, but there are a few that will, and you just never know.
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- my heart goes out to the guy who lost his life on that roller coaster here in Georgia at Six Flags. Last time we went which was about 3 years ago. I noticed there were a bunch of young kids working there. Like 16- to 20 yr olds operating rides. No real older adults around. My daughter had asked to ride that ride and I said no. We don’t go on anything that has to many loops. She was upset. I stood my ground.
- I was never an amusement park girl. I am the bag lady. I will do the kiddie rides and a water ride or two, but that’s it for me. I have no desire to feel that type of rush
- There is a girl on insta who gave up sugar for a few days. That is so hard to do. I tried and lasted 2 days. Sugar is in everything. I haven’t given up sugar but what I have done is limit my consumption of it. Also anything that has over 20% extra sugar gotta go.
- Somebody buy me this. I had it before but gave it back because I was confused, but now I want it again.
- Speaking of buying me things or giving me things. I am starting to not like the begging on threads. You know the posts where people say times are tough and they can’t pay their rent, and they say I have set up a GoFundMe or here is my Cash App. I am not a fan of it. We all fall on rough times but I don’t know I’ll sleep in my car before I beg on social media. Some of it is real but a lot of it is fake and people need to own their own stuff
- I voted early. You don’t have to like the person or agree a hunnit with the person just pick the best reasonable person let all that other shat go.
- I bought a new coffee machine. I didn’t need it, but it was on sale. I’m still trying to work the thing.
Reading
Still trying to get through Parable of the Sower. It has picked up a bit.
Watching
Mr. T Documentary on Netflix…wtf was that
Listening (will include podcasts or YouTube)
This was good and it wasn’t boring at all. Also loved how this was conducted.
