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“You’d think I’d be used to this but to have my craziness once again negate my freedom of movement was tough to bear.”

“The consequences of underreporting extend beyond public health nerds who get off on accuracy. It suggests something is less of a problem than it is and therefore less deserving of our attention and our dollars. […] Finding fewer suicides can make it seem like suicide is less of an issue.”

“There is something perniciously unfair about a disease that strikes, as this one tends to, in early adulthood, just when you’re supposed to be coming into yourself as a human being.”

tbh i imagine i would feel less stuck if i’d been diagnosed w depression earlier on. maybe i wouldn’t have fucked up my college career lmaoooo

“Chasing your vocation’s a powerful protective factor. But being thrown back into it after an inpatient stay highlighted the agonizing delta between the person I perceived myself to be and the person I wanted to be.”