Medication and therapy are now part of the conversation but hospitalization is still whispered about. I’ve written about it because it’s scary and I needed to make sense of it but I haven’t been as honest about it as I could be. Because stigma.
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Anyway, I hope everyone who can and needs to is able to.
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I wrote about when I checked myself in in 2018:https://catapult.co/stories/when-it-hurts-so-bad-on-fighting-a-depressive-episode …
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The first time, a friend found me wandering around Union Square. I hadn’t slept in days. She was so worried, she showed up at my house in BK the next day. I’d “accidentally” overdosed on Ambien but I was “okay”. She took me to my therapist and then the hospital.
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That was scary as fuck because I didn’t know what was happening. I just wanted to “sleep”. That’s going to be in the book because twitter is weird.
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