Opening
Here goes, the start of something that I never thought I'd write about. Infact, some people in my life have discouraged me from even talking about some of this, which I don't think has helped me at all. This isn't about throwing anyone under the bus, so I'm going to give fake names and such, but everything I write here is the truth. My therapists have all encouraged me to write about this properly, instead of via the odd social media posts like I used to do, and I can't even count how many people have said, "Wow, this sounds like a plot from a movie. You could write a book!", so while this is not a book, here I am doing just that. While they never advised that I write this with the intention of people reading it, I've decided to make it public as I keep being told that by sharing parts of my struggles via social media, it's actually helped some people. Infact, when I was going through the worst of all this, I myself was desperately searching the in...