Mental Health Days Are A Necessity

Jamie Hairston
4 min readApr 21, 2024

I firmly believe in mental health days, whether it is planned or unplanned; sometimes, there are just days where, no matter what we do, everything seems to go wrong, and we want to throw in the towel. For me, that day was yesterday. It felt like, despite having had a vacation and a brain reset, I came home to deal with more chaos than ever, and yesterday was the day I decided I was going to take a mental health day because nothing was getting done, and I found myself completely frustrated. Since I am still struggling with this, I thought I would share a few tips that might be helpful for you as

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Jamie Hairston

Jamie is a former addiction counselor who now writes fiction about substance abuse and mental health issues.