Hi ,
World Mental Health Day is coming on October 10.
This year, its message is about hearing the voices of people with lived experience. I am one of those people.
I have spoken openly about the years when I was suicidal and spent time in psychiatric hospitals.
I was diagnosed first with severe major depressive disorder and later with schizoaffective disorder, depressive type.
My case was considered chronic and hopeless. I was told I would never heal.
For a long time, the mountain ahead of me was hidden in fog. Still, one day followed another.