“I can’t have one good day without immediately believing I’ve been faking it forever,” says Aether C. This quote from The Mighty story, “Five Ways People Experience Internalized Mental Health Stigma” lingers in my mind.
One of the risks that comes with momentary feelings of happiness is that they can invalidate everything we’ve been through up until now. “I’m a con artist,” I tell myself.
I’m feigning a mental illness to “seek attention,” “get out of” whatever it is I don’t want to do, or deceivingly seek belonging in a community like The Mighty.
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