Want to make the world a better place? Stop being assholes to each other.

World mental health week is continuing across the nation, the globe and we're coming out in droves to support it. More people than ever before are seeking help, talking about their issues, meditating, asking what they can do to get themselves in a better headspace.

As a kid, I don't remember being taught anything about mental health, about the link between our health and our minds, and I remember my Mum telling me she thought I was a little bit depressed and I had no idea what the word even meant. I just knew I was sad. I was sad a-lot and I didn't think I was like everybody else.

Psychologists appointments are so booked and full up because people are seeing them longer, we're seeing a shift to online coaching. If all this money is being thrown to mental health awareness, suicide rates are at an alarming rate and we're seeing psychologists for a-lot longer than ever before, What on earth is going on?

If you really want to stop mental illness, you really want to stop people from harming themselves, not feeling like they can't chase every dream they've ever had.. stop being assholes to people online and in person.

We're all guilty of it. We all do it. But the scary part is, we lose it when we hear of a child whose been so badly bullied they thought the only option was to take their own life. Kids can be horrible. We all have a story from our schooling life that tells of heartbreak from being bullied. We don't understand ourselves and no one else understands that being different, makes you the greatest person in the world.

So, imagine the irony, of scrolling through social media comments and seeing grown men and women literally fighting, calling each other names, calling each other the most despicable, horrible things in the world because they don't agree with what the person has said/ done/ worn/ given their child/ written/ fallen in love. The list goes on.

When anyone is called out for it, their simple answer, "I'm entitled to my opinion." Yeah, well, guess what, actually no you're not. Not when it has absolutely no impact on your life and you don't even know the person. Social media can be the change the world needs to see, with any normal person, a journalist from the touch of a button, but it will also be the downfall of the world as we see more fighting, more bitching and more people commenting horrible things because deep down they feel like shit.

Your child/ nephew/ niece/ cousin/ friends child is going to one day come home crying because the popular kids in school have sent them a horrible message. Your advice will be to ignore them, block them delete them, not give them any ammunition and report it to authorities. So, next time someone, who is probably a celebrity, writer, blogger, actor, actress posts something you don't like.... keep scrolling, unfollow them, and think about if they were your loved one and the advice you'd be giving them.

Then think about what you'd be saying to the person who had sent it to them, and repeat that to yourself.

If we want to change the world.... we've got to change ourselves first and stop being an asshole at every opportunity we get.