It's just a little wish

Some of us with mental illness are seen as crazy, stupid. Things you wouldn't think if you never knew we were mentally ill. Things you didn't think before you knew we were mentally ill. It's not easy to live with mental illness. You don't understand what it feels like and never will unless you have a mental issue. People with mental illness need support and the best people who can support you are your family and friends. And if they don't well you have a tough road a head of you. Most people hide it from their friends. That's what I did. I wasn't trying to lie to them or keep a secret from them. It's just that I heard how they talked about people who were mentally ill and I know it would have changed their attitudes towards me. I know, I know if they were real friends that would never happen. You would be surprised. People with mental illness need their family's. And when you don't have them it's hard. It's real hard. I know first hand. I do not have the support of my family, and it hurts. Now the title to this is just a little wish. My wish is... I wish I had a family that was close. It was really close at one time before my mother remarried and then it all changed. If my family were close I don't think I would suffer as much as I do. No one knows how I feel day to day. No one talks to me everyday. The people that I work with who see me day to day know me better than my family actually does. There's no one to see me depressed, falling deeper and deeper. They don't come visit me, so they don't see that my house is messy and that I'm too depressed to even care. There's nobody to care. My birthday is Wednesday and my mother will think it's just ok to send me a card, if she even does that. What I want to express is that if anyone in your family has a mental illness, please, please support them. Check in on them, show them that you love them. Everyday.... Because we can't get through this alone.....