As World Mental Health day nears, it's a good opportunity to think about where each of us are in our journey.

Our mentality changing as we grow and learn, it is bound to change the charge of positive and negative as it fights to keep it's balance within our lives. We all belong here. Those we consider bad and struggle to understand, they belong here too. This is humanity, and sometimes we pour out in extreme doses which the world can bare, but the people cannot.

We are given choice to decide what is right and wrong. We joint together to create laws and rules to protect the vulnerable, and as a majority we agree.

It's those we protect from who require the time to be studied and understood.

Why commit crime and hurt others?

How does one come to justify the majority perceived law and rule breaking?

Mental health illnesses may be the reason. Perhaps we have not taken enough time to truly understand the minds of those who disagree with the rules.

Maybe they suffer within themselves, maybe they don't.

Perhaps this is how they cry for help?

Whichever way we see it, strong mental health could have saved many, and it still can save many.
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