So beautiful. We blithely say “mental illness is ILLNESS” and then expect people to try so hard to fix themselves. People die of chronic illness all the time. It’s allowed.
I find this sentiment and this sentence so beautiful: "Wherever this journey ends, it will end with me more Mary than I ever was before I got so sick." Thank you for sharing your words here.
My friend's dad, a pastor, told her that suicide is terminal depression. That helped frame my dad's struggle.
So beautiful. We blithely say “mental illness is ILLNESS” and then expect people to try so hard to fix themselves. People die of chronic illness all the time. It’s allowed.
I find this sentiment and this sentence so beautiful: "Wherever this journey ends, it will end with me more Mary than I ever was before I got so sick." Thank you for sharing your words here.