I love this, Alicia.

Jul 30, 2018·1 min read

I love this, Alicia. Thank you for sharing and I do in fact understand from my own experience. I’m right there with you, in it til the end, friend.

I’m fascinated by the “fixers.” I recently wrote a story where someone left a comment asking if I’d tried being happy. I was like, Oh! Wow! I hadn’t thought of that! What a simple solution because really?

Good on you for sharing your stories. We need to hear them. The world needs to hear them.

Erika Anne Sauter

Newspaper reporter in Eastern Iowa. The views expressed are mine alone.

…his post. I also received feedback from “fixers” who feel like they know mental illness, yet don’t: you need to rely more on God, you need to try yoga, you need to try such-and-such diet, you need to try natural supplements instead of drugs, and one piercing opinion from a relative: therapy without God is just psycho-babble (how dare I see a psychiatrist…the only one who was able to save my life…instead of a minister). As I’ve stated before, management of a mental illness is a multifarious process and different for e…

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