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I have suffered from clinical depression for 15 years since I was in high school, and anxiety for the last four years. Anxiety and panic attacks usually are caused from worrying/stressing over things I do not have any control over and ASAP work deadlines for projects that were given at the last minute.

 

Not to mention dissecting every minute thing that I say and do and feel like I cannot do anything right. It is not being able to tell the difference between a gut feeling and anxiety- but anxiety lasts much longer I started having weekly therapy sessions when the pandemic started. I use art therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, poetry writing, and prescription drugs to help.

 

There are archaic misconceptions that mental illness makes a person bad, unlovable, not independent, or able to be "normal" which is why so many people were locked into mental institutions fifty years ago.

 

Mental illness is more normal than people think. And it does not necessarily make anyone less capable. The stigma is a debilitating and decrepit mindset that needs to be broken. Mental illness should be talked about so people feel be stronger.

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-Anonymous

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