***I’m sorry for the delay of this post. I know this blog post took a while. I got sick and got admitted to the hospital for my mental health.*** Unaware of my mental disability early on, I had poor management of my mood, and it reflected on my relationships with the people around me. The …

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The legendary Greek Philosopher, Aristotle once said, “humans are by nature a social animal.” We build relationships for our well-being. As for me, with a mental disability, I have struggled with relationships throughout life. Because mental illness is an invisible disability, building relationships is like a blind man navigating the world. There were many contributing …

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There were many times I felt that I was tired of being sick and tired. One day in January of 2018, I once again found myself in an ambulance heading towards the nearest hospital here in Vancouver. The cause was an episode of depression with suicidal thoughts. As I sat in the ambulance being assessed …

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