I got really sick at age 20. It wasn’t the most common experience when I tried to tell my peers what was going on with me. However, now that I know more eight years later, I am aware that this is a common age for mental health issues specifically to surface.
With both a heavy family mental illness history and personal trauma in my background, it was unfortunately a strong possibility for my brain to go haywire at some point in my life.
Still, I hoped for the best and did what I could to remain calm and present, until there was a reason not to. I will never forget, as many times as I’ve tried, the night that I started to experience rapid-fire intrusive harm thoughts.
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