Please Don’t Call Me Crazy

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I live within the stigma of mental illness.

I’ve been called crazy more times than I care to count, so many times I believed it was true. For a while, I embraced my “craziness” and acted out accordingly having found the perfect scapegoat for my actions. Don’t blame me, I’m just “crazy.”

To be fair, I’ve had issues with mental health since I was an overly anxious child. This was back in the…