What are hidden injuries?

What is it like getting injured? You feel hurt, right? Be it physical or emotional. It can be a painful experience. Let’s be more precise, what’s like feeling hurt or injured? I once searched “hidden injuries” on Google. I wasn’t surprised to find two definitions of the injuries.

• The first meaning was, of course, physical injury—an instance of getting hurt on the body, externally or internally.
• The second one, to my surprise was the mental damage—an instance where you go through mental or emotional discomforts.

Meaning, we are right to call Google, “Google Baba Ki Jai ho.” Or “Google knows everything.”

Are you aware of hidden injuries?

Imagine what if Google wasn’t there? What if there was no internet or a way to see what different experiences a human mind can go through. I believe people still aren’t aware of the existence of mental injuries. People believe what they see. You might have heard the percept, “seeing is believing”. Therefore, when they haven’t noticed, or cannot see an injury, we blatantly deny its existence or recognize its severity and discomforts. That’s what we see many people do – “Deny the existence of what they fail to correct.”

I wonder when the time is going to come when we can truly exercise our freedom of expression. When are we going to be free to tell that we are injured? When are we going to stop feeling ashamed that we need medical help for a mental illness? We need to acknowledge that it is acceptable to go to a counsellor and say that we need help. But first of all, we need to stop waiting for social acceptance of our need for mental help. Can we say that we need help, not because we are weak, but because I need support? Seeking support is not a weakness, but being ashamed of it is. I believe it’s something ingrained in us by our society. Let’s discuss the social aspect some other time.  

Healing process

As we need medication help for the physical injuries to get cure, we also need medical assistance for healing our mental injuries. The earlier we are the better we will be in getting cured. The three best way which helps up are

1. Accepting and Recognizing – We have never been taught to accept any flaws by ourselves by anyone. Unfortunately we have been taught to just show others there flaws or when we are showed our by other people. It’s time that we start recognizing ourselves and accepting our flaws and weakness. Because the person who accepts self and recognizes is open for improvement. As said “When you know your weakness you know where you need to work on yourself.”
2. Seeking support – The moment you accept and recognize yourself, you need to seek support. Seeking support or help is not weakness but strength. When you meet with an accident, you visit doctor for better assistance. You don’t ignore it or bandage yourself. In a same manner you need to seek support of mental health experts.  The sooner you seek support the better are the chances that you will heal soon.
3. Believe in yourself – Sometimes losing confidence is normal. But what’s not normal is being in state for long period. When you start believing in yourself you gain the confidence of overcome any situation. We should not compromise our integrity by trying to be someone that we are not and be on our own believes. Have the courage to accept yourself as you really are—not as you might be, or as someone else thinks you should be, you are a pretty good person. Perhaps the hardest thing to do in life is to accept how extraordinary you really can be, believe in yourself, and then how to incorporate this awareness into your attitude and personality.

Everyone goes through nasty hidden injuries!

Every person is a universe within themselves. We can find an entire universe within ourselves. However, let me tell you that everyone would say to you that they are an open book. I believe this is the biggest open secret or white lie for the matter to the fact to oneself and others.  

Everyone has secrets in their lives- and it is ok to keep secrets, it is ok to be weak, it is ok not to let everyone come in your life in that particular place or corner. But it is not ok to be soft and vulnerable and to be injured for a long time. It kills you, you being alive. It is ok to accept that you are wounded and that too in a way that it can be only felt continually. It cannot be said or explained to anyone because we are at the stage where we cannot identify that we need help or we are injured.

How did you cope up with hidden injuries? share your experiences with us at  contact@aarthalife.in  in the comments section below.