There’s a tendency, once you’ve started to heal from the wounds that mental illness has left you with, to forget how bad it really was at the time.
It’s not that time heals all wounds. It’s just the memories fade as they flow backward into the past. You find yourself asking, was I really that miserable?
That irrational? That out of control? Once therapy and medication — or whatever works for you — have gotten you past the crisis stage, it gets harder to remember what it all felt like at the time.
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