New normal.
When you enter the journey of a mental health condition, you never know what to expect as it is a topic that most people ignore and never talk about. In my 7 year experience I’ve had several learnings, but the hardest one that I’m still trying to manage is how the expectations change, and you adquire a new normality. That doesn’t mean you settle, but instead, you learn how to accept and embrace the limits of your current situation. Before I thought that a good psychiatrist appointment was something like “Oh you are magically cured, let’s take all the medications away and never see each other again as you are absolutely fine and you’ll be that way for ever”. But as you can read in the irony of the sentence, that is as far from reality as flying unicorns made of glitter. I’ve learned, the hard way, that a good appointment is that in which you can be honest about your journey, in which you can open about your darkest thoughts and don’t feel judged for having them. Is also those...