Might seem obvious, but no one's said it yet: Mental Health IS Health.
I've seen this in "propaganda" from the mental health industry lately, and I appreciate them saying it so. I say "propaganda" in quotes because it's not really propaganda, but I see the mental health industry really pushing these last few years, they get billboards, they get ad spots, it's good to see because they're putting good information out there.
But I got it from Fallout: New Vegas. When you first visit the NCR (the remnants of California government trying to stake their claim; they're the good guys but their critics say they are stretching themselves too thinly, into Nevada where the game takes place, for example) camp, one of their leaders tells you about a soldier who was SA'd by a madman. She was out on patrol or whatever, the raiders killed her team, and the leader abused her and sent her back with her physical and mental scars, and she hasn't been the same. If you have a high enough medical skill and a high enough charisma skill and you pass a dice roll, you can tell her that her mental health is just as important as her physical health, and talking to someone does not make her weak, it's the same energy behind taking care of her physical body. It's a great point and the dice roll for the speech check shouldn't be so hard, because I go for it every time, except I quick save before the attempt, so if I fail, I quick load and try it again, because she's worth saving and it sucks that it's down to a dice roll. That's one choice I don't let RNGesus make for me. (RNGesus = RNG or Random Number Generator + Jesus... common term in RPG (role playing game) communities.)
And of course we need to get rid of the stigma around mental health.
And it's not just endemic to the west. Here is Japanese rap duo Creepy Nuts singing a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dAzUOzWvrk How much of that video applies to you? (It is in Japanese. Turn on the captions, it has an official English translation, but you have to read along.)
No, and this is not common. It's something like a photographic memory. I think there's a more accurate term for it.
Five years ago I beat someone like that in a test. We weren't tested against each other, per se, but this young woman (she was less than half my age) could visualise the text we were taught from. However, she relied upon this her whole life and lacked the critical thinking the rest of us developed to compensate for the gap in what we forgot and what we'd learned. So for each test question, in her mind she's reading the source material and taking answers from it, but anything that required you to think outside the box — that is, if the answer isn't plainly given in the source — she'd get it wrong every single time. She did get a high score, don't get me wrong, but I was the top scorer in the class. And I didn't study. We all have our own ways. She passed which is all that counts, I didn't get any prize for obtaining the top score, and nobody else remembers or cares about it now. I don't even care about it, I just wanted to make the point that the photographic memory is not the most useful mind in the room (though it can be handy).