Wandalynn's views

I am here today to tell my story and to let people know that people not everyone but some of us are not well, if you don't know what others are going through in their lives you might want to just try to see Humans as people first, someone's daughter or son, sibling among st other things before objects. My life story started as a baby... no shit right. I was abused from the earliest possible age, not only physically, emotionally, mentally also sexually. My life was in danger on more than one occasion,  with my step dad and others. I was sexually abused by 6 different family members. One in which lasted from age 7 to 14. Instead of going to a safe place I was placed into a sexually abusive situation. As I grew up I had only two people in my life who showed me real love. I went to my first marriage which was physically abusive, emotionally abusive and emotional abandonment; In a sense I was abandoned right from birth. That relationship lasted roughly 7 years. My second relati...

Positive Communication: 10 Things To Say To Someone With A Mental Illness : Photo by Alexandre Dulaunoy Last week we discussed the worst things to ever say to someone with a mental illness. Many readers commented on what their personal experiences have been and how someone’s words  tore them apart, confused them, hurt...

Sometimes I feel like I want to be another person. Living with my Illness is a hard thing... But then I think; I am a special unique person. I have such a range of emotion... and have been working on this for such a long time... Taking things one day at a time and never believing in what I was made to believe. I still can be someone; even-though I am going to be turning 42. Someway; somehow I will, I will succeed... Some times are good some times are bad but I know deep in my spirit that one day soon things will be so much better. Deep down within there is a flower waiting to blossom into that enduring bulb that will grow bigger and stronger each-time it re-emerges. Life and living are two different things and I want to Live; live life to the very fullest. Life is too short to dwell on things we can not change and one day I will have that life I deserve and so desire. Sometimes you need to just displace the negative people who try to belittle you or make fun of you; too many ...