Things no one tells you about when youâve been mentally ill for years and it wonât get better
â everyone will give up on you. Some will say it upfront, some will have indirect ways of showing it (youâre a lucky mf if you still have someone )
â your symptoms/ breakdowns/ panic attacks are cute for a few months. Everyone wants to help. Later on people find them annoying and inconvenient
â you will be blamed for not getting better. Doesnât matter if youâre doing therapy, taking meds, exercising, eating well and sleeping. You can do all of it, some of it or none of it. They will find fault in your efforts.
â desensitization to your pain. This one isnât their fault, itâs human nature. But it happens and yes it hurts cuz you would wish you were desensitized to your own pain but you have to feel it no matter what. Doesnât matter if itâs the millionth time. It demands to be felt.
â people move on. But you canât. You see people cope and get over things while you simply canât. And itâs so much worse if youâve been mentally ill for years. Even the smallest things break you and trigger you.
â you slowly realize this world isnât made for mentally ill people in any way
â youâre tired / fatigued all the time. You have been for years now. You simply exist but you arenât capable of living anymore. Your illnesses have taken everything that made you feel alive. Youâre nothing but a shell. A body.
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