How mental illness has affected me!
** Trigger warning - Contents including Self - harm & negative thoughts** Writing about these subjects is extremely difficult for me due to being scared of being judged. However, it’s such a taboo subject and hopefully the more people talk about these issues, the more normalised Mental Health conversations will be in society. I never thought I would ever confide in anyone about these kind of thoughts I have experienced, never mind sharing it to everyone . So, this is a really big and nerve racking step for me... but I know that in order for people to really understand Mental Health they need to know the experiences people have. Self-harm is when someone intentionally hurts themselves, usually to stop the mental pain they are experiencing. A lot of people don’t understand this and often ask questions such as ‘doesn’t it hurt?’ & ‘why would you do that to yourself, it leaves scars?’ And the answer to these 2 questions is that when you are hurting s...