What Is Mental Illness: Mental Illness Was My Family Secret And I Was Hiding It Well I Needed To Give It A Voice

Not all approaches to achieving emotional balance going to be equally as beneficial to all people, Everyone is different. And therefore the important thing is to find an approach and activities that you enjoy and that bring you emotional balance and relief. We have some helpful tips. You first must try to recognize your emotions and understand what might be triggering them, with the intention to improve your emotional health. Although, sorting out the causes of sadness, stress, and anxiety in your lifetime can with my daughter, we joined.

I couldn’t wait to hear what they had to say. Because of my affiliation to NAMI I have found it very comfortable to talk about my experiences with friends and family. Let me tell you something. My daughter has become a part of the In Our Own Voice program and I have joined the NAMI Speakers Bureau, since after that,.

Now look, the speaker was from a Minnesota advocacy group that seeks to stop the stigma that is associated with mental illness.

I have learned that mental illness is a lot more common than I ever thought.

Everyone knows somebody who is dealing with a mental health issue. Whenever tingling in my hands and feet, and a choking feeling in my throat, that should scare me so I should get other symptoms like dizziness. Seriously. To say that there was stress in my whole life would be an understatement. Anyway, much like when I was an eleven year old, Know what, I was sure I was dying. Notice, I continued to experience anxiety throughout my childhood and teenage years. I married my high school sweetheart at the young age of eighteen and by the time I was twentyone, we had two children. By the way I managed, it was undiagnosed.

When I was ‘twenty two’ I began to experience physical symptoms that felt like flutters in my heart.

Well I have survived major depression.

My passion is to encourage people to talk about their own story. How will anyone ever be comfortable with mental illness if only talks about it? There’s more information about it here. If I had survived cancer I must be shouting it from the rooftops.

Certainly, they can open up to you because There is someone waiting for you to open up. Therefore, please tell your story. With that said, I am so proud of myself. Have you heard of something like this before? I have survived a serious anxiety disorder.

You may even call me Marie and I am almost fifty now.

I’m doing great and been very successful with treatment. It didn’t happen in one day though. My family history of mental illness includes depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD and a grandmother who died by suicide when my dad was only two years old. Being that I didn’t like the after effect and I didn’t like the idea that I needed crazy pills to cope with everyday life, they always worked. Mental illness was my family secret and I was hiding it well. That said, the issue was that those medical conditions didn’t have a stigma attached to them. Consequently, I’ve been prescribed nearly any SSRI that there’s to prescribe. I would inject insulin, if I was a diabetic. Just think for a moment. I would get chemotherapy, Therefore if I had cancer. Anyway, I needed to give it a voice. Fact, it was okay! I went on and off medications for twenty years before it finally occurred to me that I had a medical condition that will require me to take medication, most probably for some of my life.