This year’s mental health awareness week, founded by Mental Health Foundation, is under the theme of loneliness.
An emotion that so many of us can relate to in the MRKH community.
Because we actually have been there. 1000s of us.
Feeling that same pain and like we are the only ones in the world. Loneliness to us is not just about social connection but also about not feeling connected on a feeper level. Not feeling understood because how can someone understand truly how you feel if they aren’t also living it?
Knowing someone else has felt the same can help reduce the impact it has on our mental health, provide us information and a boost that can help us all improve our physical and mental health for the better. Join us this week as we have some activities to help us work towards reducing that feeling of loneliness through community support initiatives to help spread the message of #IveBeenThere and that you are not alone.
Check our Mental Health Foundation for more resources to support this week and watch out for some posts and challenges from us too for #mrkh5000in50 and for us all to think about how we can reduce loneliness and support ourselves and others.
Since I was told I have this at age of 17,I have had to live without been able to talk about it,I am 54 now and now there is more support,but nothing for me even family didn’t understand how it affected my mental health I didn’t want to live anymore hope there is someone out there like my history please contact me if so.
Hi Laura, we have lots of different resources and if there is something you don’t see you would like us to have on the site please do let us know, we are always open to suggestions! I know you have had a tough journey and like many it is hard to process everything you went through. You can always use our members map to speak to others and share experiences with MRKHers from all over the world at all ages and stages of their journey xx
Hi Laura! So nice to read you I´m 45 years old and just like you nobody told me ,informed me or speak about anything related to the syndrome….Girls now have lots of information and opener relationships with thier families…that wasn´t my case…my mom never knew or speak to me about it…I suffered form athoer malformations in my body due to the syndrome…hopless and so so alone l started to look for info on the net…and slowly found woman with l can share what happened to me all this years…
I wanted to die just the second l had conscious…l undestand you perfectly…all this years feeling so so alone made me furious to the world…envy every woman who can have children or just a normal life…but i started teraphy and my point of view changed…luckily now l see it differently…is not easy…is painfull and hard but it´s posiible my dear! of course there are many times that life is still hursh but those moments are the fewer… hope to cantact me anytime to talk!! we cannot change our past but surly our future!! count with me in!!