Living With A Mental Illness

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Having a mental illness can be hard. But living with it every single day, all day, all night, is just straight up exhausting.

It doesn’t matter what mental illness you have; the effects of it are all exhausting, mentally and physically.

People think getting out of bed and doing your normal daily routine is easy to do. But living with a mental illness, getting out of bed can be the hardest thing to do. Because that means you have to get up and see people and socialize and go out into the world.

You wake up still exhausted because of your racing thoughts all night. When you finally get the will to sit up, you see it’s at least 20 minutes past your “getting ready time”, per-usual.

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And because of this, you’re already having anxiety because you got ready late, therefore giving you more anxiety. This already gives you a bad thought for how your day is going to go (every day). And when your day starts off bad every single day, it gives you no hope for better days to come. This terrible mindset can ruin your mind.

So, that’s just the mornings; Let’s get on with how the rest of the day would usually go.

Whether you go to school or work, or you even stay at home doing nothing, you pretty much know your day is going to be complete and utter hell. Why? Because your mind is stuck with you. No matter the distractions, even if nothing technically goes wrong in the day, you just don’t feel good inside; Because your mind and evil thoughts are constantly eating away at you, turning every good thing, bad.

So because of this, you sleep to escape your thoughts, but dread waking up to the next morning, because you know what the day will bring: your own personal hell.