No one asks how I'm doing
I go to a typical drug store pharmacy, and maybe once a week there is this pharmacist who works who I have gotten to know pretty well. He always goes the extra mile to make sure my fairly extensive pharmaceutical needs are being addressed appropriately.
Today he happened to be on shift and simply asked, "How are you? How is your mental health?" When I picked up my medications. For some reason it really meant a lot that he asked, and I have been thinking about it all evening.
I have realized that no one, outside of my therapist and Doc, ask me how my mental health is doing. My friends and family ask how my day is or things like that, but people don't check in regarding my mental health.
I don't think that they don't care, I think they just don't know how to ask. Plus, I don't know how to ask them to ask.
Eventually I may not need therapy on a regular basis. Eventually my psychiatrist visits will be cut down to once every few months or transferred to my GP. At that point, there will be no one who asks how I am doing, and I will have to hope that my favorite pharmacist is on shift, even if answering him truthfully will mean disclosing my feelings in front of a busy store of people .