“More Than a Month: Living Through It, Healing Beyond It”
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💜 Trigger Warning: Mentions of abuse, suicidal thoughts, and mental illness To the person reading this blog post — thank you for being here. Before you go any further, ask yourself this: How are you really doing today? Rate your mental state on a scale of 1 to 10. There’s no judgment — just a moment to check in with yourself. Mental illness doesn’t clock in and out. It doesn’t just show up in May and leave when the month ends. It’s every day. Every breath. Every fight to keep going when you feel like you can’t. I know because I’ve lived it — and I still do. In middle school, I tried to unalive myself. The pain from abuse I couldn’t name, the ache of missing my mother, and the weight of being misunderstood nearly took me out. I was unhoused at one point, and I remember thinking about running into a moving car. That’s how heavy it was. That’s how invisible I felt. Rejection, abandonment, being misjudged — they’ve all played a part in my mental health. Sometimes I was reje...