Mental Illness

Strange how I always think of mental illness as some guy droolin with a straight jacket on. I am seeing now that there are as many types of mental illness as there are just regular illness. I hear people all the time that are not generally sick in the head say "they are sick" the truth is as I see it that some people just have short term illness of the brain, like having a cold or a hangover. Example : You come back from vacation but your brain won't get the attitude to work. You have a mental hangover, Example 2: Woman breaks up with you and you seem to feel like all is lost even though you have car,food,shelter, etc. I think the main thing is to reconize that your brain is sick and if you move forward and keep doing THE NEXT RIGHT THING, your brain will get well. The wrong thing to do is surround yourself with people who are not healthy in the head and have destructive attitudes. I take my mental health pretty serious, moslty because I feel like crap if I don't take care of it and it effects everything I do. For me taking the attitude of being of service keeps me pretty healthy. I think that men used to be in groups of 100 so we were bread to help the group survive, so my brain feels good when I try to help the group out. When my brain starts to cause me pain it becaue I am in fear or trying to help myself out, but then I get back to helping my fellow man and my brain gives me a feel good feeling.