Britts Fight for Life (A mental health battle)

When you have a mental illness its hard to find the light in things, but one thing I know for sure is that we all need to find some inspirations to keep us going every day. For me, that inspiration came in the form of a person who also attempted suicide but survived. Kevin Hines jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, but survived and decided to use his story to help save the lives of others. Thankfully I learned about a documentary he had made called Suicide the Ripple Effect. I went and saw it at my local theater with my mom and husband and my life has never been the same. His movie was so inspirational and eye-opening. The way he talks about his struggles and how he gets through the days gives me so much hope that I too will be able to survive. He also taught me that sharing our stories with others is important and needed. After hearing his story and how much he has helped people by sharing his story it made me realize I needed to be open about my struggles and to also share my ...

Since I'm new to blogger and not sure who all read this or where you are from I thought I'd take a second to make a blog about me to give you an idea of who I am, why I chose to do a mental health blog and help everyone understand my situation a little more. First things first my name is Brittany. I am 28 years old. My story starts when I was a little girl who was extremely bullied in school. Being bullied was hard, hurtful, and formed me into the person I am today. I did not realize I had a severe mental illness until I was about 15 years old and had a traumatic life-changing event. I was just going into my freshman year of high school when my dad decided to leave our family. For me, this was by far the most traumatic thing I have ever been through. I came home from school one day to his bags by our front door. I ran to my room when I realized what was happening and he took his bags and walked out, leaving me home alone since my mom and brother were both at work. My dad w...

Everyone struggles in life, everyone knows struggles are a part of life. Unfortunately for someone who suffers from a mental illness the struggles aren't just the normal struggles everyone goes through, but added to the normal struggles are the triggers that set off their mental illness. Everyone's triggers are different and the way they affect people are different. My triggers are ones that are super hard to avoid because they are things in everyday life. My triggers affect everything I do once I am triggered. The second my trigger comes into my world I shut down, I have night terrors, flashbacks, I cry myself to sleep at night because the pain of remembering the events that cause certain things to be my triggers are too much to bare, I close myself off from everyone because in all reality no one will ever understand what is happening in my head. People who do not suffer from a mental illness think that we are overreacting or just being dramatic, but for the ones who struggle ...

I've been getting this question for a little while now so since I'm in a better place mentally today I decided to answer the question people keep asking me. The question is "why am I choosing to be so open now about my mental illness and suicide attempt?"  For me the answer is quite simple I'm choosing to be open and honest about my mental illness because I feel it is something everyone needs to be talking about! It's so taboo to talk about mental illness and suicide and that's why a lot of suicidal people keep their feelings inside. They feel like the world will tell them it's all in their head, if they just try to be happy then it will all go away, if they have faith it will all get better, you choose how you wake up in the morning so choose to be happy, but the reality is that people with mental illness don't have a choice. Trust me when I say there has never in my life been a morning where I woke up and thought to myself "should I be happy...

After the events and numerous celebrity suicides, it's time for me to shed a little more light on mental illness! Let me start by saying mental illness does not discriminate who it effects! It affects every walk of life rich, poor, homeless, military, popular, unpopular every walk of life! Secondly I'd like to say I've seen numerous posts regarding the suicides of these celebrities where people are writ ing how cowardly they are, how selfish they are, how they aren't thinking about their family or literally the one that pisses me off the most "they made a permanent decision to take care of a temporary problem". The last statement pisses me off literally to my core because mental illness is in no way a temporary problem!!! Also just an FYI suicidal people are in fact thinking about their families when they are considering suicide, but the voices or demons as I call them in our brains are literally telling us how worthless we are, how our families would be bette...