5 Things To Know About My Mental Illness — Before You Say You Love Me
Things that especially stood out from this article to me:
1. "I need to know that you love me with all of my brokenness...I am afraid that if I am completely honest with the people I care about, they will leave...You have to love the entirety of me — even the parts of me that are terrifying…They are still mine. They are still me."
2.
“I am mentally ill. Not the cute kind, not the
inspirational kind…I feel the constant pressure to present my mental illness to
the world in a nice, tidy package with a ribbon on top, to make it friendly, to
make it palatable, to make it less scary….I cannot promise you that I will
always be this charismatic, ambitious, passionate person that you were drawn to
in the first place.”
Can I make this a tattoo? And, on the flip side, I often
feel guilty about identifying as a person with anxiety/depression/metal
illness, because I know, comparatively, mine is not.that.bad. I feel like I am
not quite crazy enough to be a part of this tribe and that talking about it
makes me an attention seeking fake. But it's still the most accurate identity I've tried on until this point. Especially after stumbling across this Kristen Bell interview. To all the people who call me bubbly:
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