Mental Illness can affect all aspects of your life, especially relationships. Depending on the mental illness that you have, it’s difficult to be with someone. Family relationships can suffer. I know that, for me, my depression deepened after several miscarriages. Add in the fact that my marriage was not doing well and you have the…
When you have a mental illness, one of the first things you learn is that you have pleasant days and unpleasant days. Some months those unpleasant days outweigh the good. Other months they don’t. It took me a long time to come to terms with my bad days. Most of it was from the stigma…
When the doctor told me he thought I had mild anxiety, I thought he was crazy. I was a worrier, but I didn’t have anxiety. Why would I? How would I? I didn’t know that all of that worrying I do was part of my disorder. I didn’t know there was even something I could do…
I have depression. There I said it and the world didn’t end. Depression can make you feel like the world will end. I’m not even sure the moment I my depression began. I can tell the moment I felt more than sad. When I felt like the world would be better without me. Looking back,…