Bipolar Mum Journey

Mental health isn’t a buzzword. I’m so sick of hearing people say, “back in my day you’d just get on with it.” The person saying that is usually a massive fucking dickhead who, clearly would have benefited from counselling growing up and probably wouldn’t be the massive DICK they are today.

Hopefully, your story to a diagnosis isn’t as chaotic as mine. I want to emphasise that had I not had forensic counselling and finally found a good mental health team, I’d probably be back in prison. I’ve had many mental health teams, most of them useless, half of them wet behind the ears, with no life experience.

I’m not telling my story for my five minutes of fame or to make bank. I’ve been silent for nearly 40 years. What I’m about to do is going to bring me a lot of backlash but these monsters and toxic families can’t keep getting away with their abuse.

People in the mental health community don’t like the term “jumping on the bandwagon,” but you have to understand a lot of people are; they do it to build a social media following, and it’s not fair.

I’m sure you’ve seen numerous “Life” coaches sliding into your dm’s with zero “Life” experience. Don’t fall for it, don’t be sucked in just because you feel lonely. You don’t have to have a diagnosis to join in; we all suffer in one way or another. Especially now that the World Wide Web is in full force, we’ve never felt like a bigger piece of shit comparing our lives to one another. I’m here to say stop that. It’s all a facade; life is a circus, and we’re the performers.

Let’s together build a FREE, SAFE, support system between us where people can talk. Don’t suffer in silence; the system won’t help you, most schools don’t even help children, so they sure as hell don’t care about adults. We need to be our own support and support each other in the process!