I have lived with mental illness my whole life. I carry with me complex PTSD, anxiety disorder, dissociative disorder, and clinical depression. I walk with these things, but they don’t define me. I live with, and beyond them. I do my best to speak out and seek help when I need it. To my family, friends, health care providers, and lovely strangers who have sat with me when I’ve fallen, who have walked beside me when I’ve begun the climb back to health, who have loved me through all the terrible, wonderful, and everything-in-between moments of my life and given me hope: I am more grateful to you
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