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Daily writing prompt

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

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When I was a teenager I had a lot of difficulties of several types. I was untreated and undiagnosed with severe mental-health conditions and Asperger syndrome and experienced different kinds of youth adversity including bullying. I mentioned last time my enuresis condition and I think I describe that well enough in other post.

What I would tell my teenage self would be to see my own strenght in the face of hard times. Believe in my ideas and develop my talent for creative expressions. How the seasons affect us more than we sometimes believe, and self-punishment does not help anything. I would encourage myself to open up to someone about the adversity and mental illness. And I would also suggest to come out of hiding my preferred direction so I would have opportunities I have missed and regret it a lot now in my 30s.

And I would tell myself the truth about my identity, I’m like the Midnight sun in summer time; always there for myself for help even in the middle of night.

Daily writing prompt

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

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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 ❤