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I’ve created this MySpace to help educate friends and family members of the effects of mental illness. I was diagnosed about a year and a half ago with schizoaffective bipolar disorder with borderline personality disorder. I never thought in a million years, me of all people would suffer from a mental illness, but now looking back I see all the signs. I started cutting when I was in middle school and suffered from major depression but I had the talent of hiding it so well. I always got good grades in school, I played sports, and I was the “normal†teenage girl. I graduated high school a year early, with honors, and then went on to nursing school where I was the vice president of the student nurses’ association. After receiving my first degree in college I was going on to my second when my issues really began to develop, but still I kept them well hid. It wasn’t until I was 23 when I first got institutionalized and I thought they had made some kind of huge mistake, I was discharged after three days convincing the doctors and nurses that I didn’t belong there, then a week later I tried to take my own life, and ended back in the hospital. It took several months and psych evals to finial come up with my diagnosis but they did and began treating me with several medications and therapy. Well for me this didn’t work out so well because I went on several more time trying to take my own life. In the process I burned many bridges, I lost most of my friends and my family just didn’t know how to deal with me. My purpose for this MySpace is to one let people know they are not alone fighting mental illness and two to help educate friends and family member of the severe effects mental illness has on us all. I not only inform you of my own person experiecne of self harm but also as a survior, we have had multiple suicides in my family and just seven months ago i lost my fiance to a methadone overdose, so I can say for sure I have been on both sides of the fence and the more of us that pull together hopefully the more lives we can save. I still have my everyday struggles, I won't deny that, but atleast now I know there is help and support and that I am not alone. So for friends and families please know that when your loved one hurt themselves, they are not doing it to hurt you and there is nothing you could have done to stop them. The only thing you can do is not give up, be supportive, and get educated!“Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it; an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.â€
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