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Perception is not always reality — especially with overwhelming negative emotions.

You can't depend on others to accept you and be proud of you, you must cultivate it within.

Stigma places more importance on other people's reactions to you than how you see yourself.

Persistence during recovery, refusing to quit, means you can take pride in owning your recovery.

In my way of defining emotional recovery, I emphasize three components: trusting yourself, believing in yourself, and wanting to be you. Of course, these three components can be broken down into many more components. In the final phase of emotional recovery, wanting to be you again, I think that you must first establish pride in who you are, before, during, and after your acute illness. I know for me, pride was the last emotion I could comprehend regaining after my psychotic breaks, but it was pride that was critical to developing my current state of well-being and the progress I have made over the years.

I lost my sense of pride when I lost my mind and was cognitively impaired after having been an academic, a path that came to a halt. My sense of pride was lost after navigating a psych ward and losing my sense of autonomy. I lost my pride when I felt embarrassed and ashamed for how I acted during my breaks in front of my family and friends. I felt terrible that communicating my hallucinations scared others. I was so ashamed that for years other people knew something was off about me, but I didn’t always realize it, and when I was aware, there was nothing I could do about it.

Being Proud of Being Alive

I think it’s easy to take for granted that you are alive........

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