“Recovery isn’t perfect. it can be thinking you’re healed fo

“Recovery isn’t perfect. it can be thinking you’re healed for a month then falling back to square one. it’s trying again and again to make positive changes to yourself. it’s mustering all your energy into getting out of bed. it can be accidentally giving in to old habits but then putting the pieces together again after a breakdown. it’s gaining confidence and being sociable for a while then walking past people with your eyes on the ground because suddenly they scare you. it can be incomplete to-do lists and days unable to function after doing so well. sometimes there are relapses and it feels even lower than where you started. but every time you decide to take a deep breath and start again, you have succeeded. even if you have to do this a hundred times before you’re fully healed, by wanting to recover you’ve already won.”