Within the past week I have been attending a few training sessions offered at the office and it has really opened my eyes and my mind to empathise with other people, especially clients from a cross cultural background. I did one sess on 'Mental health awareness' and 'Cultural awareness'. Both were very informative and made me realise sometimes it takes a human being to understand another human being, we just have to put ourselves in another's shoes and realise what they are going through.

With mental health, it seems there is so much prejudice in how we perceive 'mentally ill' people. We really do not give much of a second thought, cuz the first thing that pops into our head is 'they are dangerous', 'they need to be in the looney bin', 'they are just weirdos'. But really it is something beyond their control, they feel trapped and helpless in their thoughts and their mind is like a prison. Like people who suffer from depression, anxiety attacks, post traumatic stress, contemplating suicide etc. Being a prisoner of your own thoughts is probably one of the worse situations to be in, your whole world comes crashing down and no one around you understands! It made me think twice about calling anyone 'nuts' or 'crazy'.

It kinda made me realise people who are close to me have also gone through similiar illness like depression. It is such a drain on life, I also felt this post natal. It was like the whole world turned to shit and no one could understand... like no one needed to know you were sad, but you had to deal with it yourself and try not to think too deeply or it would end up falling even deeper in negative thought. In the training session, one story was a lady had post traumatic stress which lead to recurring nightmares of her daughter drowning. This was due to the guilt she felt when she tried to kill herself and her daughter, but only the mother survived. That affected me BIG time! I just could not understand what would drive a person to such an bitter end.

Anyways...I also learnt through 'cultural awareness' when I played a game with my colleagues that it is so hard to be a foreigner in an country where you can't speak the language. I had to tell my group about my weekend, without using words with 'i' or 'u' (my group didn't know I had to do this), they could ask me questions to prompt me though..but thought I was a complete illiterate fool! You should try it...cuz it got me so tongue tied and my brain was just thinking so hard about what words I should use. Very interesting in the end :)

I think everyone should just change their natural 'lenses' to see a more clearer picture of the world without stereotypes and prejudices. Then the world would be such a nice place to live in, and there would be more understanding and peace :)

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