Your mental illness isn’t your identity
disclosure; living with MST-ptsd, adhd, depression.

When mental illness becomes the identity it creates barriers towards recovery and impedes the ability to keep stability in your life. Healthy relationships etc. ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780880701826101">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... )
When our narrative becomes "I am (my mental illness)" instead of who we are, it creates a foundation for instability and dysfunction. Positive interactions become seemingly impossible as the self-narrative in our heads start their death loops ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029207000878">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a... )
Living with a mental illness isn& #39;t shameful, and doesn& #39;t take away from our own story. Which I hope isn& #39;t what was taken from my original opening statement.

It took me 15 years before I was able to actually access my own trauma and start living outside of it; e.g. imposter synd
And I’m totally fine with the 6 followers who left and the one that blocked me over this.

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