25yo meet the person I thought I would settle down with, 28 get a job I felt I wasn’t good enough for. Partner seems like she’s cheating but gas lighting made me feel awful for having such a notion. Gran passes, I can’t cry, then a month later partner tells me its over as she doesn’t feel the same anymore and again I couldn’t cry. Role on another month friends say she was cheating and show receipts, at this point my mind is fucked and I lose my job. Put on anti depressants, do lots of therapy, discover I have mental health issues from a shit childhood. I got to my lowest and discovered more about myself then I ever had known, things are on the up now.

I now have a level of honesty I had never afforded myself.

As to how my mental health journey went, I moved in with my mum, I went unemployed for a few years. Getting help has been an on going battle with the NHS but really I came from a privileged position where my previous employment had a therapy programme which gave me a leg up for 6 sessions. But thats not to say there weren’t months of nothing.

Whats important is acceptance.