Mental Illness Monologue

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Wake up, eat breakfast, take a small blue pill. That’s exactly where I am today, except I can now deal with missing a dose or two, as well as go multiple days without crying. In the world today there are medical tv shows where you see people with OCD counting ceiling tiles, obsessively washing their hands, or going ballistic when one little thing goes wrong.
When I first watched these shows I believed that people with mental disabilities were definitely not normal and needed to be locked up, and to this day I believe that is why I hid my pain for so long. I didn't want to be seen as crazy, and I surely didn't want to get locked up. But today I know many people who suffer from mental illness, myself included, and I have learned that there …show more content…
When something upsets me and I think to myself “just fake it till you make it” it makes me realize that sometimes the thing that made me upset was definitely irrational. This small saying has carried me throughout these two years as well have my closest friends Maia, Emily, and Mia.
Maia, although she is away at boarding school is only one call away when I have a bad night and she always gives me the best advice on how to let things go. Emily’s immense knowledge helps me realize that most things I am upset about are irrational and helps me calm down. And having Mia’s empathy and kindness ready whenever I need is something I will never be able to repay to her. I have also had to learn that people are going to talk, they are going to point out weird and quirky things I do and people do realize that I tend to get worked up a lot. People call me dramatic, but they don’t know that the chemicals in my brain force me to be that way. They call me clingy they don’t know that the clinginess comes from the irrational fear of being alone. I have even been told to my face that “you are just a little too much sometimes.” Yes I am dramatic, clingy and maybe a little too much but that is me. That is how God chose to wire me and I would never wish to be anyone
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