My Story

**Trigger Warning**

I’ve worked hard to be who I am today. Sometimes it still feels surreal that I am able to function in a normal life and to live with so much passion, hope, and generally being happy. I’m still working hard everyday but if anyone caught a glimpse of me…

Treatment Journey … Continued

Part 2: Popping Pills

Medication

To say I had a huge stigma against medication is, well, true. I grew up in a household where my parents would not use Western medicine unless absoluately necessary (in…

Treatment Journey

Part 1: Sitting on the Couch

Therapy and pills. Those are the two most common treatments we think of if someone is “crazy” or “unstable” or just not “all-there”. While we are getting better at using the term “mental illness” nowadays, there’s still so…

A Year Ago

Three years ago…

… I had just been broken up with and getting ready to move back home. I had moved to a brand new city with this boy hoping for a bright future, but instead, now had to face the humiliation of a failed relationship and moving back in with my parents. I was also…