World mental health day 2020
It’s okay to not be okay. 6 words that can change your world. I don’t like myself. I have to live with things I’ve done, or considered, because of my mental illness. I wake up every day with a cloud over me. However, every day I have the love and support of my family and friends. I continue to battle back on a daily basis and you can too. People have used me, manipulated me and broken me. However, others have picked me up, dusted me down and rebuilt me. My mental illness affects my life every day, and dreading my own birthdays and Christmas is an awful thing I have to live with, my brain doesn’t afford me the luxury of pleasing myself or being the centre of attention, whilst at the same time making selfish choices that make me the centre of attention. I have to live with the memory of considering taking my own life when my children were just babies. I have to live with the memory of my wife crying when my destructive behaviour affected our relationship. How...