When I was anywhere in my 20s
I could have been diagnosed
But my peers my life my ambitions
Nobody could have told me I was any different than anybody else
And if they did I would have slapped them silly
When I started talking about external dealings
My mother finally said
You’ve always been weird
Really mom? How?
The worst thing that happened to us is accepting
Accepting is the best thing because only by accepting can we get help.
i was always the strong one, the cheeky one, never the weird one (until i developed my mi)
My father is the only one
Who said
Sheri, shoot for the moon
Every doctor nurse system and society said No
There is still a lot of ignorance abound about mental illness. For example, a lot of people with mental illness fluctuate between higher functioning periods of time and lower functioning periods of time, but often when it comes to applying for assistance, the people vetting applicants are looking at each case in all-or-nothing terms, and the assistance programs themselves are designed around all-or-nothing thinking. Until this ignorance is properly addressed, there is a lot of pressure to play along with the all-or-nothing stigma in order to secure the assistance someone might need for their low functioning periods.
My memory was always a mess and I always lived in a dream world so I never knew I had this illness …
I only knew I had sz when I was like 30+ ( I don’t remember when I considered and accepted me having it )
It started in the year 1999 back then I was 19 so for sooooo many years I never knew.