Being diagnosed with a Mental Disorder is horrifying. The last thing you want to hear any doctor say is that you are mentally ill. That there is an imbalance in your brain which causes you to think or act differently from most people. Not only that but you see the world differently. You learn to live differently because at any moment your mental condition could change and flip your world upside down. What I mean by that is that you could be having the best day of you life until your depression hits. Everything that was once great and dandy is now dark and irrelevant.
When telling people about my condition they automatically shut me down. We live in a generation that if you cannot "physically" see mental illness then it certainly does not exist.
*NEWS FLASH*
Just because you cannot see it doesn't mean it is not there.
Any mental illness sucks. They isolate you. Make you feel unwanted, useless, and afraid of life. They make the easiest day to day tasks feel like the biggest burden in the world. It feels like you have no purpose and you're better off dead.
Many of us use varieties of medication to treat our condition. Just because something works for someone else does not mean it will work for everyone. We are all different. A big thing that many people have to understand is that medication does not make one weak, not asking for help does.
If I could talk openly about mental illness I would say anyone suffering through this illness is a bad-ass motherfu*ker. There is nothing more terrifying than battling with your own mind every single day.
