I got sick young. I’ve been mentally ill for more of my life than not. For so long I felt lost in the world, unable to hold onto the constantly changing reality into adulthood.
I felt the world spinning around me and I was stuck, unable to move and thought this was the way it would always be for me. But something clicked in the last year.
I’ve become OK with my illness and it now lives alongside me, sometimes even quite a bit behind me, instead of on top of me like some sort of iron cloak.
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