Relapsing is part of the journey.
‘Just get over it’ ‘Other people have it worse than you’ These are just some of the comments I hear on a regular basis. Having a mental illness can be very exhausting and draining. At first I was positive and hoped this would be my constant mindset. However, after being positive about it all at the beginning I felt as though I had to be positive all the time but that is not always going to happen. Everyone has their own bad days and the way people deal with them is different. The past 3 months have been some of the hardest, battling with my own mind on a daily basis has been extremely hard. Isolating myself from people, not sleeping, not being honest with my therapist are just some of the things that made me realise I wasn’t myself anymore. I don’t feel like me, the Courtney I know is the one who socialises with people, laughs, jokes and sleeps all the time and this is not who I am right now. I have relapsed and it has hit me hard, harder than ever...