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Living with Mental Illness

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Living with Mental Illness

Here I was in full blown active addiction. I was going around city to city taking pictures of myself in random truck stop restrooms. My life was so unmanageable I wasn’t taking care of my responsibilities like my children or anything else that comes with being an adult. Addiction takes everything from you over time. I was bullied most of my life because I was a bigger girl and the only thing I found to help me lose weight was turning to drugs and I watched the pounds fall right off, but I was not healthy by any means. I was at my lowest and tried to kill myself. I then checked myself into treatment and from there realized I didn’t need the drugs to make me happy and I am now happy in my own skin. After I found the light house church that helped me get in touch with my higher power and taught me how to love myself once again love the real me the clean me.