How many of us are so depressed, we can't keep things from getting to us. What if you are so depressed you cry all of your make-up off. What if this happens every day. What if those meant to protect you are actually against you, but you are so depressed you can't see.
This has the potential to create stress and strain.... role strain....status stress....your role as a sister, daughter, cousin....your status as a student, a counselor, employee....
Your brother wants you to take it easy....your family wants you put away for life....your friends try to encourage you to be ambitious....you need to build a good support team and then help them make magic....
Surround yourself with those that don't make you cry....give your true support team time to come through for you....you are capable of becoming self-reliant, but it takes time....you need to be patient and stubborn and resilient....it takes more than days, weeks or months....a good support system takes years to establish; but, oh when they finally come through, your crying years and suffering will have ended....
Vocabulary ABC's in Mental Health (a linkage bank of differing sites explaining mental illness and what that life looks like)
New York Times has a view of East meets West in mental illness
This has the potential to create stress and strain.... role strain....status stress....your role as a sister, daughter, cousin....your status as a student, a counselor, employee....
Your brother wants you to take it easy....your family wants you put away for life....your friends try to encourage you to be ambitious....you need to build a good support team and then help them make magic....
Surround yourself with those that don't make you cry....give your true support team time to come through for you....you are capable of becoming self-reliant, but it takes time....you need to be patient and stubborn and resilient....it takes more than days, weeks or months....a good support system takes years to establish; but, oh when they finally come through, your crying years and suffering will have ended....
Vocabulary ABC's in Mental Health (a linkage bank of differing sites explaining mental illness and what that life looks like)
New York Times has a view of East meets West in mental illness