How does one deal with mental illness, finally recovering and then finding out one's lives is in a shambles?
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Advocate for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (aka NAMI). At their website, you can find your state and local chapters and reach out to them. NAMI Connections support groups are present to facillitate recovery and share in the feelings that are present. There are many more helpful programs on their website which have benefited me as I recover from my mental illness.
As I was growing up, I dealt with a paranoid schizophrenic mother, got placed in foster care, and thought my life was completely ruined. I turned to God, and he answered my prayers. I am now a mentally healthy woman, have two children, and am a teacher. Life doesn't stay in shambles for eternity. Life is as happy and successful as you make it.
Need more details---your age, just what is in shambles, lots more information about your situation.
Can you work? Do you have a job?
Whatever your life is like, start looking at it in a positive way, not expecting perfection.
You look at it as a grand opportunity. Honestly, how many people get the real and actual chance to start it all over again at the bottom and do it right. Somebody who has nothing left to lose can only go up, and yet you've got the experience from having done it the wrong way before. I would totally take it as a good thing. Just start again being healthy, being open, loving and *accepting* yourself as you are to the bottom of your toes and you will have one amazing life. Would someone be bummed because they had a bad accident, were all screwed up and then had a total recovery and just had to get going again? Heck no, they would be just happy in the moment that they are alive and get the chance.
Your wrong expectations gave you depression which led to mental illness. Get rid of expectations that are unreal.
If you are recovering, it may seem like a set back, but take one little step at a time as your energy permits. You can change whatever is in shambles. Don't waste time fretting over it.
Just chill out for a minute and reward yourself for making progress. Soon you will see your efforts paying off.
I think its a hard realization when you pull yourself together to find out that your life is a complete mess. However, now that you are more stable, you might be able to pull it all together a lot easier than if you were still dealing with the mental illness. It's gonna take some work, but the hardest part is done - dealing with the mental illness.
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