#survivor – Page 3 – Authentic Truths

April 10, 2019April 11, 2019

Bipolar Life-Stigmas and other nonsense

I refuse to allow your misunderstood ideas interfere with my living life to the fullest. I also refuse to live within the confines of the margins you create.

April 6, 2019April 10, 2019

Bipolar Life-Your Highness

Looking back, I thought I'd never survive. Looking ahead, I hope I always will.

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019

Steady proof I’ve Come so far. After the pain, the suffering, the healing, I Remain. I endure. I survive. Scarred. ..and whether seen or unseen. They are here. Whether visible or hidden Whether carved on skin or carved in mind. They’ve left me changed, Changed internal, Changed in life. The memory of their preceding pain, …

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January 12, 2019January 15, 2019

Bipolar Life- The Journal, #16

This is the truth. I have Bipolar disorder, I have lived with this for most of life. The childhood abuse I endured did one heck of a number on my brain and chemistry, changing forever what could have probably been a normal mind. Once I hit adulthood and a manic episode ended in the worst …

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January 12, 2019January 12, 2019

Bipolar Life-The Journal, #18

As an abused child, I stayed locked behind the bars my abuser erected for the keeping. I held on tight to those bars in hopes they would protect me. Their true purpose was to contain me. The darkness I felt then, I feel now.

April 15, 2018October 18, 2018

Authentic Truths- Beyond the Door

The barrier I struggled to face was not about the abuse, the abuser, or anything really related to those many years of torture. The barrier was one I erected, one I had to be willing to confront and to tear down- one block at a time- it was- “Jesus, why did you leave me?”