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Recovery is hard for me right now because I don’t have a support system. My family doesn’t encourage me at all. In fact, they try to make me feel guilty for putting my mental health first. They expect me to keep on keeping on as I have done for the past 25 years - like they have done. Several of them have a mental illness as well, but they don’t do anything to make try to make themselves better. They just scrape by… like I did for so long. I’m sick of that. I’m trying to build a new life for myself and I wish they would at least try to understand me and why I have to do this.
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