When you awake each new day, do you look in the mirror and ask does this word "mental illness" change my form, Is this such a bad thing that I cannot be who I want to be, I am me, no matter what
words form, my illusion is still the same, I live as me with feelings that are not sometimes appropriate for the world but to me they are me, how I deal with these feelings is what makes me, sometimes I can live and feel everything and then sometimes there is to much feeling and I have to shut down and then restart, when I restart will I be
looked upon as the same before I had to shut down, in my world I struggle and the struggles sometimes overtake but when I overtake the
struggles I can feel me again...so many ups and downs if just once I was taken as me when I looked in the mirror I would see not a word or a diagnosis but a human, a face that can smile, laugh, cry , hurt, love and be loved... a mind that can accomplish great things for I am me and me is who I will be not a diagnosis but a human with the same
rights and feelings as the reflection looking back at me.
Lady Sil