CHAPTER 5
I’ve heard people say that folks who struggle with mental illness are the strongest out of everybody because what’s scarier than fighting with your own mind day in and day out? And I suppose if I was an inspirational-calendar-quotes kind of girl, that sort of thinking might give me a little perk when things get hard.
The funny thing is when I function, I function fine. You would never look at me and guess that by tomorrow my brain might go on strike for three or four weeks. When I’m busy with life and being productive, you could never imagine the demons that I’ve battled.
Both the demons I’ve conquered and the ones that I’m sure will plague me for the rest of my life.
It’s a curse, really, because when you do that well ten months out of the year, nobody worries about you duri
