I do too – I love what you have just said. At the end of the day we are the experts on ourselves. Society is so quick to blame our experiences as symptoms of some mental illness or wrongness that in us and that isn’t true. We all have our own experiences and personal background and personality and traumas and abuse that have formed our own personal narrative. We all have a unique story. How we present our narrative to the world is made up of a combination of factors. labeling someone as mentally ill and condemning that person is not the right way to go about fixing all that is broken in our society. Being silenced into shame -is not the way to do it either. Trust, hope , communication and mutual respect and empathy are highly underestimated as a way of treating people.

There is this culture that to express our emotions is wrong because it makes other people uncomfortable. We need to understand each other. Listen , identity, swap information. Just because we fall into crisis and become “unwell” doesn’t mean we can’t become well again.
Life is a journey – all the ups and the downs – we can take charge of our lives again. When I did WRAP it transformed my whole life. I lost my way for a bit but I came back to my own WRAP – I’ve changed how I cope. That doesn’t mean I don’t have rough periods in my life, I just have other ways of looking at how I can deal with problems. Life is not easy and I know how easy it is to get stuck in old ways of coping but I also have insight into other ways of coping. It is an ongoing journey.

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