So I guess this isn't really the beginning of recovery for me...but I suppose we could call it the second stage. Depression has taken so much from me. I am fighting back now, I am taking back control. I need to make up for lost time.
This time last year I was desperately suicidal, barely clinging on to myself. Now, I live life. It's not all sunshine and daisies of course and I'm not recovered, not by a long shot. But I am getting there and I want to document it. I want this record to show that recovery works and we can be happy again, even after the horror of mental illness. Maybe not all of the time - but enough to make it worth it.
I also want it for my future self - to prove that I have gotten somewhere. I have achieved something. Recovery is such an under-rated achievement to the world. Well here's proof of the work that goes into it. I want people to know that it is hard - but possible.
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