I found my way back to this site, over 3 years since my first and only post. It’s been so long I had forgotten I even made an account. And how disheartening it was to have the realization that in many ways, I am no better now than I was then. The stigma that is still around mental health leads people to believe that these conditions are just something one can “get over”. That surrounding yourself with loved ones, exercising, getting a pet, etc., will “cheer you up”. I stand as one of so very many examples that this is not the case. Though I […]
I never realized how far I had fallen until I glanced at the table next to me, and there lay the razor I used to cut myself, the pen I shoved down my throat to vomit what little food I had, and the mostly empty bottle of vodka I had been drinking……..all in a row.