For my friend Erin...

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In honor of "World Mental Health Day" (October 10th), I would like to say:

I originally wrote this for my friend Erin, who like me suffers from Bipolar I with psychotic features, and (not like me) is an ex-self harmer. She has had her ups and downs. She has had a life that most people, normal people, would kill themselves having had to live. She has hit the bottom of the barrel (not merely the gutter, but sunk to the bottom of the sewers below), and she has fought like no other person I have known to reclaim her life and to proudly be able claim to not just be a person that suffers from mental illness, not merely be a person who has survived the darkness, but a true survivor in ever possible meaning of the word. She has helped me through her stories of survival, through my questions unknown, and through being a true friend that understands the pain I know. Thank you, Erin! You are one of the greatest people I have ever met...