Mental Illness Recovery: The Untold Story
Hello there! How have you been? Isn’t it amazing how fast the last two years flew by or is it just me? Happy New Year by the way! I hope this year we find the courage to leave behind pain and sorrow and find new reasons to believe in good again. Life update: I completed one month working as a content developer trainee at my new internship. It has been a pretty decent experience so far. I started sessions with a new therapist, which is also going well. Life is good, if not the best. But now I know that it’s okay to not feel up to it all the time. And let me tell you this - recovery is not a one-way journey. What is Recovery? Recovery can mean different things to different people. However, the one thing it’s not is that it’s not synonymous to being “cured”. If I have to define recovery, I might say it’s a process of saving oneself from hopelessness, pain, sorrow, fear, numbness, and finding at least one good reason to keep doing what we love. The first time you enter recovery, you might...