I am no longer claiming mental illness in an intimate way - it’s something I go through, but who I am and where I fit into the world is defined by what I love and what soothes me and where I want to go
Thank you to over identifying with illness and diagnosis and intellectualizing everything to pieces for helping me make sense of myself when I was very young and afraid, but it’s the end of the road for that solution and mindset for me, I can just feel it + familiar suffering is still just suffering








