The people that flood social media content with mental health issues are the ones who report loudly when they achieve huge success.
Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being successful and sharing it.
But I have come across very very rich people with even richer businesses and being quiet about it, doing their work very well, learning from their mistakes, and becoming a better person each day.
To them, that is true success.
And I have noticed that with myself as well.
Any time I post about any success of mine on social media, it doesn’t feel very very good. I felt much better in the process of pursuit of that success, and I feel even better in the process of pursuit of the success after that. To deal with the “social media success” I just posted, it honestly drains me.
Sometimes it is necessary to share a tiny tiny glimpse of yours success to inspire people. But if you are doing it for engagement farming, hoping people would know you when you do post about it, or in the hopes of being respected, it often backfires. Most often, quietly on the outside but loudly on the inside.
So, go out there, and become successful my friend. Not the success you have been chasing just so that the world out there applauds for you. But the success you know you deserve so that the person in the mirror will applaud for you.
That is the time we will start taking a step towards mental health.