Follow Up
Yesterday I made a post on Instagram about Mental Illness. I explained that I have depression, and that there are days were it gets the better of me. This post is a follow up to that. I want to make something clear, I am doing okay. Please don't see this as a cry for help. This is just me, doing my best to deal with my depression. It is also my attempt to help others who might be in the same place. Here's a little background on me. My depression cropped up when I was about seventeen. Unfortunately I didn't get the help I needed, not because I was ashamed, or because people didn't believe me, or any of the terrible reasons others go undiagnosed. I didn't know what was happening to me was wrong, neither did my parents, and if other adults in my life did, they didn't bother telling me. That's how I finished high school, suffering and not knowing it. Luckily, when I was nineteen I served a mission for my church and the symptoms all culminated in m