So my life is sorta normal, and what's wrong with that? I know people eek at the word normal. Like whaddya mean, it's gotta be interesting, spicy, we must do the unexpected. Yes i'm down with all that, but honestly with mental illness it's a struggle toward normalcy.
If you don't have a job try and get one, honestly work is a huge step in recovery, and the centerpiece of living a normal life. Whatever your work entails, as long as you're working. I believe it's necessary to get away from the obsession that characterizes having a mental illness by getting a normal life. That means: having relationships, working, having conversations, getting up at a decent hour, getting three meals a day, taking care of finances whatever... One thing I don't mean is being like everyone else, and honestly, we don't have to worry about that. We have mental illnesses, nuff said. We'll never be normies, but we must struggle towards it.
Why? Why, because at some point we lost touch with reality, or just lost our way, and we rediscover it through what everyday people go through. We don't know it, until we've been through it. It takes time, are we willing to spend the time getting ourselves straightened out? Isolate all you want, you'll never know the feeling of being part of a group, or what the significance of it is. If groups aren't your thing, maybe it's to care about a project. Now we're talking free-time. That's when we have sex, create things, and rock out! Whatever it is, it's important to experience the significance of it!
I believe there are levels to experience we can't explore in our heads, so if you want the solution, and are ready to listen, stop worrying about mental illnesses. They're actually quite empty, and no amount of interpretation is really helpful. Looking for a solution leads to emptiness, and meaninglessness. It will not prepare us for real life. When life goes down, challenges us, hurts us, teaches us, finds us.
Live a normal life, and you will find, the specialness comes to us through the pathways of stability. We need to discover things through action, constant action. We should learn how to do things the right way by doing them the wrong way, but to have done them! You will find your way through this approach: the approach of having a normal life.
