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When you struggle with mental illness, your winters feel longer than other people's winters. Where they get through a setback relatively fast, you're in recovery for the long-haul. This doesn't mean you're not resilient. Maybe small obstacles rarely get you down anymore. But even on so called normal days, your life doesn't feel like everyone else's. Whether or not you were recently diagnosed or had an illness for a long time, grief at some point is inevitable. Giving yourself time to mourn the old you and a new sense of normal is part of healing. There's other things you could do. You could turn off social media notifications or not look at them all together. You could keep a list on your computer or on a post-it of all the ways your life is fantastic and why you're proud of yourself. You could find groups online or in person with people struggling with similar issues. You could create a file on your computer with all the kind things others have said about you. You could identify your
