this is potentially kind of heavy reading. When I was a teenager I struggled with severe psychosis and bipolarity for many years without getting diagnosed. In addition I experienced significant adversity in school and a lot of difficulties in the relationship with my absent and substance using father. Also like my father did in his own youth I struggled with enuresis and bedwetting, well into my late teens actually and was in a lot of physical pain as well.
My advice to my teenage self would be to tell the youth mental-health worker much earlier about the bullying and my psychotic symptoms and to feel less shame in being different and about my different health conditions, especially including those involving shame, embarrassment and humiliation.
thanks for reading this, and I say feel love in your true unique way of being ❤
cloudB 