I’m a perfectly normal woman living her perfectly normal life trying to catch the curve balls thrown by her mental illness. Did I use that sports analogy right?
I’m not sure when it hit me that my mental health was mediocre at best. I guess it’s not normal to have a meltdown that consists of screaming for 6 hours straight because your dad chewed his dinner too loudly. I had never even heard anyone talk about mental health until my first psychology lecture…
The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, defines a mental illness as “ a condition that impacts a person’s thinking, feeling or mood and may affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis.” Holy vagueness. Seriously, we take that definitely and apply it to…