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When Hiding Your Mental Illness Makes You Lose Your Identity

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Hiding my mental illness symptoms was a way of life. From an early age I quickly learned it wasn’t OK to talk about negative emotions, depression, self-harm, suicide or psychosis.

I was loved as the manic child and ignored as the depressed one. I learned then to mask who I was and act like the people around me did.

This stunted the development of a personality that was my own. Always masking lead to a lot of years of being undiagnosed. I finally reached my breaking point though.

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