“I feel like you today.”
That’s what I’ve just been told by one of my housemates. She was worrying about something minor and unnecessary that had happened at work.
“I feel like you today.”
HAHA. Am I supposed to laugh? Was that a joke?
In all honesty I wasn’t very annoyed by the comment, but it really hit a nerve. That still, people don’t understand the real detail of what some people go through; that maybe if I was having a bad day I wouldn’t have let that comment go.
In an ideal world I would blabber on all day about every niggling thought I had, and it would make me feel free. Safe. But I feel so insecure and trapped, so unable to speak out.
I’ve done a lot of work campaigning against mental health stigma. It’s appalling to watch what people go through even in 2016. But even I can’t speak out for myself.
So keep battling guys, we got this.