What does mental health “recovery” mean to you? Is it a total absence of mental illness? I think that’s what I thought I would be able to achieve. However, I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen for me. I feel that for me, recovery is learning how to manage my mental health. Taking care of myself physically and mentally so that I can try to stay within a range of moods that are manageable. I am slowly learning through trial and error what helps my mental health improve and what doesn’t. I’m trying to be gentle with myself because it’s inevitable that I will go backwards at times- recovery is not linear. It’s frustrating, it’s exhausting, but all I can do is keep trying. I had a wonderful getaway for my 30th birthday. Loved every minute of it, happiest I’d felt in a long time. Came home and pretty much had a mental breakdown. I am finding motherhood so incredibly triggering because all of my suppressed emotions have come to the surface. Feelings need to be felt. If we do...
Becoming a mother turned my whole world upside down. It’s the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me.