Welcome to my Mental Health Recovery Journey
Hello everyone, and welcome to Mental Health with Mel. My name is Melanie, but my closest friends and family all call me "Mel", which means you can, too! This is a blog I've been wanting to start for a while, but haven't had the guts to do it for fear of exposing myself TOO MUCH on the Internet. But after realizing that I post fairly regular updates about my own mental illnesses on Instagram and Twitter , I figured - why NOT start a blog? Maybe I can reach/help more people when I have additional space to go off on tangents and I'm not limited by a specified number of characters. I'm not going to go into too much detail with this introductory post; I hope to use this platform as a way to chronicle my experiences with multiple mental illnesses, as well as my recovery efforts*. And with that being said, I do want to be transparent and let you - my dear reader - know that I am currently in a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP). I started on Wed. 9/1, and the...