It was nearing the end of September. I had just been hired at a local supermarket which would be my first job in 2 years. It was retail. It was going to be very tough for me. But I was willing to challenge myself to do it anyway as it seemed to be a more […]
I was receiving so much support on Twitter from people more than ever. And vise versa. In fact, this wasn’t even from just MH Advocates anymore. It was a wider range. In little to no time I had around 3,000 followers, all due to my dedication to the Resistance. Twitter had a trending FollowBack campaign […]
My birthday had come. It was the end of June and I was not looking forward to it. I would be turning 30 and I hated the idea of being at the stereotypical age where you are no longer “young” and are expected to become a stereotypical “grown-up” overnight more or less. Given what life’s […]
I was really set at that point to connect with as many Mental Health advocates on Twitter as I could and relate to what we have been going through. Some of these people I connected with were small groups leading a specific mental health campaign and bad their own website, YouTube page and an additional […]
Just having that boost of confidence from talking to one caring person on the My Disability Matters site made it much easier for me to get myself over to the Behavioral Health office and use this new appointment as the opportunity to self advocate for myself to get officially diagnosed with Bipolar. When I met […]
On the first day I started off my new Twitter account, the app suggested I customize my profile by following 60 or more famous people that fall under three categories that interest me. Thinking this will grow my web traffic I followed around 100 people right away which were automatically picked by Twitter when I […]
(This first person narrative post is the first of a multiple post series that I will be uploading for the next few days. This is the first chapter while the 2nd one will be tomorrow and so on and so forth..) Last year when I started this blog, I felt completely alone. Everything I was […]
