Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”

God, the truth in this. Sometimes when I remember things I’ve written I’m like ‘yeah, you wrote this because you needed to believe it.’ As someone who is pretty depressed all the time, with a few good days every now and then, and who is in therapy, I have to remind myself constantly that being ‘better’ takes time. And that there will be no real ‘better’, that you’ll have up days and down days, but that ultimately, when you put the work into yourself (ideally with a therapist) you’ll begin to heal. And that recovery isn’t neat, and tidy, and doesn’t stick to a time frame.