Big pink manatee in my room: A.K.A.- Infertility vs. Mental Illness

Just some random thoughts about 

Infertility, and Mental Illness

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• Both are chronic physiological diseases
• Both may be treatable but are not curable
• Both may have positive or negative outcomes in treatment
• Both affect nearly everything in your daily life
• Both affect your daily decision making processes
• Both have huge negative social stigma's attached
• Both confuse, frighten and embarrass friends & family
• Both confuse, frighten and embarrass you
• Both are often suffered horribly in silence
• Both need so very much to be talked about
• Both continue to NOT be talked about much
• Both diseases are sorely misunderstood
• Both desperately need more education
• Both can strip a person of their identity 
• Both almost always strip away your dignity
• Both may drag you in to a point where you lose yourself
• Both can and will make you second guess yourself
• Both can and will make you second guess your loved ones
• Both have destroyed viable, loving relationships 
• Both can and have destroyed life-long dreams
• Both were suffered by people you once knew
• Both are being suffered by people you know right now 
• Both are being suffered daily by those you love most           
• Both may be suffered by you
• Both are suffered by me

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Suffering from these diseases is NOT the most difficult experience of my life

The most difficult & current painful experience of my life is this:

choosing to continue to live, learn, love, and move forward

DESPITE

all of the above.

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MOOD REPORT:

The "Manatee or Sea Cow"

(my gentle giant - you are so beautiful!)