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Why is it that I have over 700 followers on instagram, yet I’m still feeling alone because not one of them actually knows me?
Why is it that I have nearly 200 friends on Facebook, yet none of them will check to see if I’m okay? Or message just to say ‘hi’, because I didn’t message first?
Why is it that I have a very large family, bigger than most, yet none of them actually knows what’s going on with me?
No one knows I’m not okay
Why is it that because I can put on a smile and say ‘I’m fine’, no one actually knows that I’m not okay?
Why is it that I have everything a person could ask for, yet I’m not happy?
Why is it that no matter what I do or who I talk to, I am still not me, not happy?
Why is it that I can’t leave my home? And worry that I’ll make a fool of myself or that people will notice I’m ‘different’?
Why is it that the only way that I can feel even slightly ‘normal’ is with medication? When really it just numbs me and keeps me out of the doctors office?
Why is it that I have the most loving partner, who would probably die for me, yet I feel so lonely?
Why is it that people automatically assume I’m selfish, because I have everything yet I feel like I have nothing?
Left feeling alone
Why is it that 1 in 4 people in the UK will suffer a mental illness? And yet we are still left feeling alone?
Why is it that 6639 died by suicide in the UK last year alone? And people still struggle to see that mental illness is just as important as any other illness?
Why is it that it takes someone trying to end their life for people to realise that they need help?
Why is it that I am different?
Why is it that I have mental illness?
Why is it that I am 1 in 4?
So tell me… why is it?
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