Introduction- Hello! I'm Kait.

#new #mentalhealth #endthestigma

Greetings! Thanks so much for clicking on this and giving it a read. I'll keep this one short as just a small intro to who I am and what it is that I'm doing here. Basically, I'm in my 20s, I am a licensed salon manager and I do currently manage a salon and work behind the chair. I'm also clinically diagnosed Manic Depressive/Bipolar 1. Which as you can imagine makes life...interesting. I am married, live in Minnesota (have my whole life) and I have a GIANT soft spot for animals of any kind. So. What am I doing here? I'm glad you asked. My goal is to share some of the things I've gone through in the last 5 or so years in the hopes that I can reach someone and make them have that "Aha! I'm NOT crazy!" moment. Because it is so important to me that we end the negative stigma around mental health in general. We need to stop romanticizing depression. It's not staring longingly out the window into the rain and writing beautiful poetry. It's not being able to get out of bed even if your job depends on it. In my case its bouncing without warning from very extreme lows where all I do is force myself to work and sleep to very extreme highs where I gut and clean the apartment we live in at 2:30 in the morning because I've been up for 3 days and can not bring myself to sit down. Its like what I imagine cocaine would be like.

Anyway. I'll leave that here for now and my plan is to update daily or at the very least weekly. I'm going to warn you know this is going to get deep. It's going to get personal. And yes, there will be times when it get very very dark. So thank you all in advance for reading.

-Kait<3