Remember This When You're Sad: A book for mad, sad and glad days (*from someone who's right there)

by Maggy van Eijk

Ultimately, your mental illness lies to you. It’ll tell you that everything is wrong and that you have no future. It’ll tell you that you should be ashamed and that you’re a nuisance and you don’t deserve to get help. The world in which depression and anxiety reign supreme is extremely lonely and I wanted to write this book to reach out and say: ‘Hey there, you’re not alone, I’m right there with you.’

Instead of approaching my predicament with a bit of self-sympathy I felt angry and ashamed of being me. My anxiety had convinced me that everyone on my course hated me because I was weird and stupid, whilst my depression told me that they didn’t hate me at all. I hated them. I was a judgemental asshole that hated anyone having a good time. I deserved to feel this isolated. I was a bitch.