strongerdays

I #MentalIllnessStigma #BipolarDisorder #strongerdays did not ask for this, any more than a person asks for cancer. I fight it everyday. I am stronger than you know. Having bipolar disorder does not mean I am broken. It means I am strong and brave for battling your own mind every single damn day while others undermine my disease. We do not need pity. We just need you to understand we are different.

I remember someone once told me, "if you fight against it you will drown because it is much more powerful than you. You have to ride with it, that is how you survive." You are not your illness. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is the most difficult battle.