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2014 vs 2017

" Ever get the feeling that everything is happening around you and your standing frozen in time?? Things happening, lives being lived but yet you feel like yours isn't. Well not the way that you want it to.
Struggling to regain yourself after being diagnosed with mental illness. Feeling like your being held back. Having to rely on other people when all you want to do is live your life. " (me 2014)

There is still part of this that are true now three years later. But there is now grief mixed in with it all and it's just a lotta something. Lol
I now don't feel as much as if time is standing still for me. Don't get me wrong there is times when I do feel like it. But on the whole (touch wood) everything is moving.

"Does mentally ill mean that you are different ?? Is it so back in the dark ages that we can't even speak about it?

IM 30+ and have a mental illness! And will probably always have in some form or other ". (me 2014)

Thankfully now mental health is starting to get spoken about more. Perceived on television and spoken about on social media. There is a new generation of people that aren't just willing to shut up in the corner and not speak about what they are going through.


These two quotes that I found are stirring a whole lotta questions in my head and will probably linger for the next couple of days at least. Whether I get answers to the questions or not.


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