Board Thread:Animal Jam Talk/@comment-33594242-20180908154742/@comment-35695269-20180908212340

here's a little something for my fellow people with mental illness ♡

" we sometimes find ourselves continuously focusing on the negative or perhaps what we wish we had or don't have. everyone has been in this type of emotional rut before, but not a lot of people know how to overcome it and dig themselves out. 

''for some, this rut happens only a handful of times. for others, it's much more often. i myself struggle with mental illness, therefore i am very familiar with the week-long, sometimes month-long dark holes i fall into sometimes. ''

''i sometimes wish i had been born with a more stable brain; i envy the "normal" ones who are much more blessed in the fact that they don't have to deal with as much emotional turmoil as i do. but there is an upside to not being "normal", despite what we might think. it's very easy to dwell on the negative, but i've learned over the years that my mental illness has made me much more considerate, strong, and appreciative of things in general. i've dealt with terrible feelings and been through things i'd wish upon not even my worst enemy, but with the bad also comes some good as well. ''

''i hope that what you take from this is that even if you're going through something right now, you'll know that it will pass and that something good will come out of it; whether it be you becoming stronger as a person, learning a valuable lesson about yourself or learning to appreciate things more, whatever it may be. all things will pass with time, and it won't be dark forever, though it may seem like that sometimes. our minds are very strong things, and they do not break easily. "''