I just want to talk to people about my mental health struggles throughout my life and how I’ve overcome each and everyone of these hurdles and how I could be inspiration to others. Through the power of open and honest communication and never giving up on oneself I’ll be honored to talk about my struggles but also my hope that I can give people that are struggling today day with things that they cannot control in the midst of the coronavirus

Remember you are not define by your mental illness. Your hope becomes your recovery. Your strengths and positive coping strategies empower your destiny to recover.

Recovery is possible if you believe that you are not your diagnosis. The road to recovery is not easy. Hope, strength, support, determination, and education on mental illness can help an individual with a mental illness recover so that they can live a productive and gratifying life in their community. Some individuals with mental illness can work, attend and graduate from college, buy a home, and have families.

Hope equals maintaining a mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy lifestyle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys! Whoever is reading this, thank you! You took time out of your day just to read this, I appreciate it! Anyway, I hope you’re safe and the people surrounding you are safe as well! I also hope you’re doing okay with the situation going on around in the world. It’s hard, it is but you have to stay strong. It sucks how everything in seconds changed for everyone in the world. If I am being honest, it’s okay to be angry. There are so many emotions you must be feeling right now, let it all out. After letting go of these emotions, you need to get back up. You can’t keep hurting yourself, it’s not fair! Sometimes we have to take our life into our own hands, change the way we live. We have all the time in the world, why not use this time to do what we want? Something we’ve always wished to do but never had time to spare for it. Let’s take care of our bodies, communicate with friends, and try something new every day! Change the way we live our lives, become a better version of ourselves. At the end of the day, whatever we choose to do is up to us. We decide what we do. Let’s make a decision that makes us happy, brings peace into our lives. Something I do suggest you should do is meditate, meditating every day even for five minutes can change the way you view your life! Every day is a different day, a better day. Choose what you do with the day, choose the way you live it. Don’t let the world win, fight this battle and show the world you won. Take your life into your own hands, when times are tough you should talk to someones. Become a better different version of yourself, learn something new about yourself every day. You got this, I believe in you<3 

Hi my name is Peter and I am a survivor or trying to be. I suffer from Mdd, OCD, social anxiety disorder. I am 46 yrs old now I am trying to understand why all these things are happening to me at this time in my life, when I was younger I didn’t notice some of these things for example: my ocd was not as bad but my family was well aware because they would point out some of my behaviors,my depression got worse as I got older and my social anxiety I didn’t notice because I was always drunk. I’ve been sober 8 years, now and I am trying different meds with my doctor to find what will work for me some of my symptoms are getting better. and I have good family support and counselor all I am saying is we all need to be here to support each other we are not alone and I want to be able to also be there to help if anyone needs to talk or needs someone to listen,because I know I sometimes need someone other than the people that surround me at the moment. God Bless everyone and lets all keep hope and our heads up we are all winners.

                                                                                                                                     Always a Friend

                                                                                                                                         Peter

Hello, my diagnosis is schizo-affective disorder, and even though I suffer from a severe mental illness, and struggle with some of the symptoms, I still see hope, everyone has been supportive and fully understanding, so if anyone who is living or coping with mental illness out there if you walking through hell right now, keep walking, it will get better I promise.

Mental illnesses are difficult to deal with. Many people have them of all ages too. And even if you have the same illness as someone else they are very different so I can’t tell you what to do about it I’m not a therapist but I can tell you my story (so far!) and hope it gives someone inspiration.

My name is Athena and I am dealing with severe depression and don’t want to accept it even saying it, is weird but it is there and it is a struggle because when every day all you can do is look at the bad things and look in the future and only see the memories you will NOT make is difficult none the less but I manage on my own. I haven’t told anyone its a secrecy and no I don’t take medication I just find something to distract me I go on YouTube or find a hobby even sitting in the garden is stress relieving I can’t say it will work for everyone but maybe it will. I have tried to commit suicide but its okay . Sometimes I just think positively and it can be really hard to do but I do it I think if the future isn’t here yet then how can I know what will happen I know I’m safe no matter what . Nothing in my life really is looking up but I’m not gonna give up , neither should you because who knows? Maybe a miracle is waiting just around the corner!

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Sometimes the trauma we experience is not definable in terms of scientific research or assessments. Sometimes depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are never actually diagnosed but somehow those of us who experience these issues deal with them on a daily basis and find inspiration and hope in our communities and inside ourselves.  

I, like many others, have experienced multiple traumas in my life including rape, abandonment, intimate partner violence, a diagnosis of a “terminal” disease, homelessness, and drug addiction.  Yet, somehow, I have made it through these experiences and found help along the way.  Not from the system of care (as many of us know, the system of care is not really designed to “care”), I found help in the support and love from others who have also experienced similar things.  It is their courage and compassion that gave me the strength to keep moving forward.  It is their determination and insight that helped me work through the pain and fear.  

I am forever grateful for those who guided me along the way.  Your support will never be forgotten.  Your support helped me to not only find a new way to live but to follow my passion and help others.  Even though I have been dragged through the mud, I know my worth and value has not changed.  Today, I am working on a PhD. and hope that the work I do, the community bridges from research and academia to the real world I build, can help inspire others.  May you find love and peace in your hearts

Coping with anxiety and depression has been a constant in my life.  I’d developed decades worth of coping skills and silently fought my way through, wondering why things always seemed to be more of a struggle for me.  In the summer of 2017, after having 3 babies in 3 and ½ years and outside responsibilities mounting beyond what I could manage, I suffered a debilitating bout with anxiety.  I couldn’t sleep or eat, I couldn’t function.  As I read and studied and prayed and reached out for help, I decided to hope.  For the first time in my life, I discovered hope isn’t just a feeling that comes, it is a decision, an action, a verb.  I chose to cling to the knowledge that things would get better, and they did, and they always will.

Sending love and hope and healing out into the universe.  Keep fighting.

This the continuation from my first submission , it got sent on an accident and it wasn’t completed.  So what I was saying is when I read Harvest time on NAMI’s not alone page when she talked about the Good Seeds & Bad Seeds , I understood what she meant plant good seeds and receive a good Harvest, and throw a way the Bad Seeds an don’t pass them on to anyone.  I realize that that is the truest statement that I read , I realized that that is what I’ve been doing all my life, with my children , husband, with everyone and allowing others to throw there Bad seeds on me.  So With that being said, I’m going to do my very best to cope and plant good seeds and throw away the bad.  I going to go to this DUI school  an get my license back , continue my therapy ,continue my Meds and most of  all plant good seeds an take care of myself.  and know truly,  believe that there is no HOPLESS SITUATION.