Erica's Mental Health Recovery
Hello,
I'm Erica.
I've been struggling with my mental health for the most part of 2018. I'm recovering from a childhood of severe trauma - which has contributed to my developing an eating disorder, major depressive disorder, and BPD.
I've spent a large portion of this year in hospital - and in six days I will be discharged back into the world, but I'm still learning how to be a person.
I'm hopeful that this is my last admission. I'm hopeful that I can spend the next three months working toward a recovery that I feel stable in. I'm hopeful that I can survive my mental illnesses and use my understandings to help others. But I need time. In previous periods of recovery, I've pushed myself too fast to do too much. I end up back in hospital after only a few months of precarious wellness.
I need time to recover before I begin studying Social Work in 2019. I've not been able to work or study this year, and in order to recover fully I need some financial assistance.
I need to be able to eat, afford medication, and pay for my housing while I work on getting better in the community. In order to stay out of hospital, I need to give myself time.
I am going to be working as hard as I can to recover - but this recovery is hard work - and not something I can manage while sustaining a job.
So I'm asking the universe for help, big or small, to propel me out of hospital and into a world, a brain, a life I feel hopeful about living.
I write stuff here
https://www.instagram.com/erica.willyworms/
And draw stuff here
