Coming out of the Mental Illness Closet

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I had a conversation recently with my brother. We were outside having soup and salad in the sunshine. Mental illness has been very prevalent in our family and it is often a topic of conversation between him and me.

I said to him, “I’m so terrified that if I tell people about my mental illness they will question my actions and judge me for them.” It dawned on me that perhaps this internal…