May is Mental Health Awareness Month
May 15, 2025
Aimee Meyer, MS, LPC at Kairos Constructive Counseling
Mental Health, we all have it! To many people, the phrase “mental health” indicates something wrong, but that is not the case. We all have mental health just like we all have physical health. Taking care of your emotions, experiences, and memories is just as important as taking care of your heart, lungs, and kidneys. Sometimes you need to work on your physical health through diet, exercise, and doctoring and sometimes you’re feeling good. Mental health is the same thing. There are varying degrees of physical and mental health requiring varying degrees of treatment.
During this month, I challenge you to take stock of your mental health each day. Ask yourself, how am I feeling today? Anxious for the work meeting? A little sad? Or happy that it was a good day? Mental health isn’t just the “negative” emotions, it’s all emotions. Once we start realizing that mental health is part of overall health, the negative stigma attached to the phrase “mental health” weakens. Why does that matter? Because just as with physical health, sometimes you need a professional to help you feel better. Reducing the stigma around mental health means more people will readily access treatment like counseling when they are struggling.
People attending counseling go for many different reasons and for varying amounts of sessions. Sometimes people just need to learn skills to work on their own; other times people need more guidance to help them achieve their goals.
Counselors are there for all of it; the short, the long, the sad, the happy, and everything in between. Their goal is to help you achieve your mental health goals. Don’t be afraid to reach out; give it a try. And next time someone says “it’s mental health”, remind them that we all have it.
Aimee Meyer, MS, LPC is a therapist at Kairos Constructive Counseling in Waupun, WI.
