My name is Lindsay With An A of course and I am a consumer of a mental illness. From a very young age I always knew something was different, but I never knew what to call it. Once I reached the age of 12 I became extremely depressed, violently self mutilated, and anxious. I hid it very well until I was 14 years old and that's when the feeling had a name Clinical Depression, but I was still hiding.
Fast forward to the summer of 2002 I was a teenager attending college and my anxiety came back with full force, I began having debilitating panic attacks which left me hospitalized most of the time. Slowly all of the other feelings began to come back as well except this time I couldn't control them from others around me. I began having uncontrollable crying spells, nausea, joint pains, migraines, suicidal thoughts, severe mutilation, hallucinations, delusions, weight gain, and severe depression. This would lead me to the path of a Behavioral Center. Yet, I still kept painful events to myself. In 2011 I went through another depressive episode and decided I should try blogging so I started imdepressedgetoverit.com and began to discuss topics about mental illness. After a month of writing I was back in the hospital again, but I was still masking my true issues. It wasn't until a therapist in the center explained that no one will ever understand you, no one will ever feel what you feel and that is ok. You know how you feel and that is why I am here to help and a light bulb went off in my head. That's when I begin to tell my story...
is more than me telling my story, it's destigmatizing the Mentally Ill community. It's getting society to see that consumers are not all sociopaths, pedophiles, violent 'murders, crazy, or overly sexual. I want hollywood, communities, corporations and the world to know that our lives and concerns are just as important. Join me in the movement to educate the world!
