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Mental Illness and the Lifestyle

Hey guys. Harvest here! So I have been working on getting past my mental illnesses in the lifestyle. I have heard and read many things about mental illness in the lifestyle as well. I see that there are a lot of people who don’t truly understand that you can be severely hindered by your mental illnesses. I don’t like to say “I am a paranoid schizophrenic” because that means it owns me if I say it that way. I do not let my illness own me. I want to be the owner in this case. I want to be the one who says how things go. I take medicine to keep it from being as bad as it can be but I still have my bad days. Do I think that my illness has me trapped? No, I certainly do not. Even with all the medications I take, I still am the one in charge. That doesn’t mean that I do not have hallucinations and the voices. I hear them and I choose to ignore what they say. I don’t want to be –that- person. There are things you can say that really get a person down. When you are having