layersofmentalillness

Layer Twenty Twenty

Living with a mental illness is like living with a secret. It is the weirdest thing; I mean it is not something you openly share and yet if you did so much would make more sense to others and be so much easier to handle. It’s a hard decision at what point you share thisContinue reading “Layer Twenty Twenty”

Layer 813- My First Suicidal Thought

When I was in the 8th grade I was walking home from junior high school and I wanted to die. I wanted to kill myself and the entire walk home my thoughts were on how I can kill myself. This walk home was only 10 minutes of my life. In these 10 minutes I wasContinue reading “Layer 813- My First Suicidal Thought”

Layer One- My first diagnosis

I was first diagnosed with a mental illness at 19 years of age. I feel like there are 2 parts of a person with a mental illness: before diagnoses and after diagnosis. Signs that say, take her to a psychiatrist and have her tested. Maybe medications would help. This was not how my pre-diagnosis lifeContinue reading “Layer One- My first diagnosis”