Rethink Mental Illness

If you think about it, Batman and the Joker are proof that mental illness can make you or break you.
Batman chooses to use his depression, anxiety, trauma and even phobias to recreate himself into someone that can overcome any obstacle placed before him. He fights and rises against it on a daily basis. He refuses to let it win.
Joker lets his mental illness control him. He does not fight the depression, anxiety, and trauma. He lets it overwhelm him to the point of maniacal laughter, anger, rage and even brutality towards others.
So, the choice is there every day whether we will let our mental health control us, overwhelm us, defeat us. OR We rise against it, fight it and make ourselves greater than the sum of our parts.
I choose to be Batman. Who do you choose?
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