Monochromatic Lifestyle
This post is hard for me to write. I am going to put some things out there that many don't know about me. I know that this is being put on social media-I have family and friends who will see this and be wildly disappointed in me, but for my own journey, it's important that I discuss my low points and the things I learned from them. Please, reserve your judgement and offer only love. I am bipolar. From the time I was a kid, I remember my family making comments about my irrational emotions. "You're always crying" "You need to calm down" "Why are you always so upset?" "You are WAY too hyper." When I was a teenager, I remember my emotions being too big for me to handle-from angry outbursts, to the "upside" of bipolar and the elation that comes with it, to an attempted suicide. I was told that I was just an out-of-control teenager. I was told that I had depression. I was told that I had PTSD (the only accur...