My post on the newly launched Unsinkable Stories is all about an issue that I now know is quite common when people are making progress on recovery from mental illness, but it’s not something anybody had prepared me for when I was interacting with the mental healthcare system. Overcoming this challenge is key to preventing relapse and leaving mental illness in the past, but it might surprise you, because it’s precisely the thing we think we’re chasing: freedom from anxiety and intrusive thoughts and all of that junk the brain loves to throw up. The thing is, after years of building our lives as a constant reaction to that stuff, we don’t know how to function without it.
Explore this further over on Unsinkable Stories: