Beautiful and keep thriving!

If people outside my immediate family and husband ever witnessed the rage attacks I can have, they would run a mile and think I was crazy, but I know I am NOT crazy. I too live with mental illness, I have CPTSD. There are a lot of people who don't get it, but I don't care. Many people are no longer in my life too. The real friends stayed, because they understood, and they didn't judge. People leaving makes room for other people to arrive.

Your question: DO you love someone with a less than flattering diagnosis? Be kind to them.

I read that and grabbed my plushy and hugged her and cried a bit, because I don't think I've reached that level of total acceptance and self-love. Do I TRULY love myself? Am I kind to myself? Not always.

So do I love someone with a mental illness? I don't know, I hope I will some day,many days I don't fully love myself. But I will do my best, as I have been, to be kind, to that little me inside of myself. And I will remember your story and your kind words, because we are kin, we both live with a mental illness, and your have shared things that have helped me on my own journey. Thank you.