Scale Wars: picture of our scale with my daily med box. Shows my weight gain as a side effect. The Zyprexa, I gained 70 pounds,

These are my running medals. Something that I’m most proud of from a couple of years of running. Running can make you feel so much

Vivarin medication –stay awake medicine.  It took me a long time for me to start taking meds. Because everyone kept telling me since I was

Using alcohol as a coping strategy or taking medication in the morning so that I can’t drink alcohol in the evening. I know I need

This photo shows how much I lay around and have no energy and just really sleepy.  I think it is mainly a side effect and

With depression your life gets derailed.  That is what I was thinking of and also another meaning is that a friend of mine is a

Cat laying on a bed. It is something that that the medication sometimes can fix, you know you feel like… well you know cats sleep

Paperwork Pile;  Paperwork piling up that I have not gotten to [for several months].  [Now] I am in a program that is helping me with

These are my yearbooks spread out from kindergarten to my senior year in high school. It’s life moments of when I was bullied throughout middle

Pile of my mail: All of the health care bills piling up. It is really expensive to have a mental illness, it costs a lot