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“I used to think of mental illness as taboo for a very long time until my personal experience changed that perception for good.”

“There was no path before me at one time and I had to carve out one for myself.”

“With or without mental illness, I am a human being."

“Do not run away from us when we are sick. It is when we need you most.”

“These diseases are treatable and there is life after mental illness!”

“I’m only human. I wish people could see this!”

“My story could be anybody’s story. Do not discriminate against people with mental illness.”

“I have only one wish, to go to school. I want to go to school and be a normal kid!”

"I want to go home and resume my normal life.”

“I got to a point where I did not want to see anyone in front of me"

"I do not see this as a struggle, it is more so a challenge of spiritual growth."

"I’m trying to learn to live in the “now” because tomorrow isn’t always certain."

"I have mental illness, and it is ok. I'm ok.”

"That my personality would be classed as borderline and therefore I would often fall either side of that border. Happy. Sad. Never 'okay'."

"Some days I feel like a normal person, but is rare. I feel pressured all the time."

"I’m still learning how to manage my mental illness at the age of 51 and still alive!"

"that it’s a feeling of emptiness, a feeling of nothing, where you want to be ‘home’ even when you are."

"Nothing was wrong in my life. I was just sad."

"After my diagnosis, I preferred not to take medication for a while and believed that returning home would do me good"