My Mental Health Life Story, Inspired Edition:

Self Treatment

That's one of the many things and quotes I remember throughout the 23 months of my recovery. Since I came home from college, I started on my long journey in recovery and it was a very memorable, life-changing, life-saving, inspiring, uplifting, challenging, almost impossible, almost impossible for me to experience that I'm so truly grateful for. One of the few many moments in my past life is that I've had more than one moment of experiencing suicidal thoughts.

And when I was young, I believed that it was part of being human. Later maybe after college, that memory came back and I thought: "well I must have been crazy to believe that." Being a mental health advocate partly for my mental condition, the rest by experiences, my education and anything else that could ever be part of what brought me to advocating for mental health.

I'm one of the many people living with depression who believe experiencing their depression and all it has brought them up to today and forever, that it has come to greater positive things.

And for taking my mental health for granted, my voice, my ability to make a difference in the world in many amazing and inspiring ways and much more; I'm absolutely done taking it all for granted. And now that I'm gaining a lot of it back and in my own control again, I'm gonna make greater use of it from now on!