May is Mental Health Awareness month. Mental health issues are important to me both personally and professionally. As a nurse practitioner, I have cared for patients with a variety of disorders at varying levels of severity. Personally, I have struggled with anxiety and depression that at a time became very debilitating. Family members of mine have also battled anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder. I know it’s now the end of mental health awareness month, but I still want to share my perspective with you. I have been thinking about, planning, and trying to write this for weeks now. But mental health awareness is such an important topic, that I didn’t…