Britts Fight for Life (A mental health battle)

Feeling broken is hard, but what's harder than feeling broken yourself is people treating you like your broken all the time. Am I broken? Yes I am that's no surprise. My brain doesn't function like a normal person, my mind tries to kill me numerous times a day so that classifies me as a broken person. The constant struggle for someone with a mental illness is wanting to be treated like any other person most days with the exception of needing extra love and care on the days your really struggling.  When you love someone who struggles with a mental illness one of the hardest parts is knowing what to say, when to say it, worrying about how that person is going to take what your saying to them and constantly being afraid of losing the one you love to their illness.  I get these feelings I truly do, but as a person who struggles those feeling are hard on me too because they make the people I love fear me, fear my actions and treat me like I'm some broken object they nee...

Living your life out loud is never easy. No matter what you do or what you say people will either stand beside you or stand against you. I have learned this since starting this blog and living my metal health journey out loud. I have seen people I thought would always stand by me walk away and I have gained new people to help me through my journey.  These last couple years have been some of the worst years of my life. I have been trying to put the pieces of my life back together and keep it together. It has been so hard. The last couple weeks have been a struggle with trying to figure out where my path in life is going. I feel lost. I feel alone and I feel completely broken. When I was growing up I had all these big plans for where I wanted my life to go and who I wanted to be, but now at 29 years old I have no clue where my life is headed or who I even am. In high school I was unpopular, an outcast, judged everyday and bullied constantly. Towards my junior year I decided I ha...