Mind Games of Kindness

Posted on May 5, 2025 Updated on May 4, 2025

I would venture to say that 100% of us humans have some sort of mental health anomaly. In the Oxford dictionary, anomaly is defined as something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.

A broken leg is an obvious malfunction: obvious to everyone who observes the cast that is worn or the crutches that are employed to hobble around. But what about what is going on in our brains? It is certainly true that certain behaviors are equally as detectable as a broken limb, but I believe the majority of us have degrees of anomalies of which only the individual affected might be aware. And we get up every morning hoping to crawl out of what that might mean for us: depression, anxiety, or fear of this, that, or the other.

The thrust of this brief post is two-fold:

to encourage those who suffer to seek beneficial support, and

to beseech others to be kind-hearted to those in need of your compassion.

To be sure, it is difficult to know what is going on in the emotional background of people we encounter so it is a very good practice to interact with others without passing judgment. I would very much appreciate being on the receiving end of a nonjudgmental encounter so it behooves me to extend that same courtesy to those who cross my path.

May we all practice acceptance and compassion towards ourselves and towards others.

Perhaps in addition to the above poster, this site would also be a helpful resource for all of us: NAMI