One of the worst aspects of mental illness is that you
continually struggle to feel that you are a whole person. Your mind steals you
from the experience of being fully a part of the world. Its selfish motives
take you away from any sense of normalcy. You feel constantly that you may
splinter at any moment. You struggle to escape your own mind’s harsh judgments
of you. Your world is often dark, and your thoughts race faster than the speed
of thought. The voices inside your head
can seem more real than the messages of the ones you love. You depend on an
invented persona to carry you through your interactions with the world. But
then you don’t know who the real you is or even if there is such a thing.
If you are lucky enough to find some healing, wholeness is
still elusive. The previous manifestations of yourself still linger, and you
are never sure who that whole person of your imagination is.
Mental illness steals away the gift of wholeness that so
many hardly give a thought to.
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