This week is mental illness awareness week, and in honor of that, I'm writing this post to shine a light on my own mental illnesses and mental health. I've always been pretty open with my struggles with mental illnesses because I think that it's necessary in order to end the stigma surrounding these issues. Have you ever played a game, and when you started losing you just decided to see * how bad * you could fuck it up? I came to learn that that’s basically how my brain operates when my mental health is taking a nosedive. The easiest way to start is by saying, I was on a 7 month hiatus from therapy appointments from September last year until April this year. I didn’t want to rack up more bills, but in the end, it bit me in the ass. A lot happened in those 7 months that culminated into me not coping well and reverting back to bad habits. My mental health took a nosedive towards the end of last year. I was starting to fall into a pretty deep depression which in turn re