Welcome to the frustrated mind

Greetings and salutations friend!

This is an anonymous blog but I will refer to myself as Lola, so nice to meet you. 🤝🤩 I’m a mid-40s female living in the United States. I’ve struggled with mental illness for the majority of my life, but did not get into care until my early 20s. I did not receive my official diagnosis until the age of 30, which is bipolar type II. In later posts I will share about my diagnosis journey, but for now, this is just a high-level overview to get you acquainted with the kind of content I’ll be posting.

I never thought I’d be one to start a blog, because who cares about what’s inside my head? But as I continue in my mental health journey, I find myself being faced with the necessity of implementing more productive and healthy coping skills, like journaling. I keep a very small circle of people in my life and share very little with people other than my mental health team, but even that is limited. As the meme depicts, there’s only so much you can say in therapy without risking hospitalization. And for me, who has pets and a limited local support system, I cannot and will not risk hospitalization, much less can I financially afford the downtime from work.

So, this will be where I’ll be doing mind-dumps, letting out that which I do not share verbally with others. I decided to make this journal public because so many people share their stories in an effort to support others, and I guess that’s my aim here too. Mental illness can make life isolating, I hope the thoughts I share give you comfort in knowing you are not alone in this battle. I make no promises about the frequency of posts, but everything written will be genuine and real, sometimes dark and gritty, with occasional sprinklings of hope and motivation, and last but not least, memes that ring true.

And thank you for stopping by! I’m not really sure who might come across this blog, but if you happen to find this and it’s helpful, then ((hugs)) to you friend! 😎👊

Take care until next time, and be sure to check out the resource page too!

Can you relate???