Another well-known blogger and author recently stated that their child was thriving. Many times, I want myself to believe that it is always better to be thriving than just surviving because when I am just surviving it was in the past when I was not taking care of myself in the way that I need to. I know I need to work more at thriving over surviving.

Granted there are going to be days when I am not the best self that I need to be. But when it comes to doing what is known to work to make things at a minimum manageable, then I must continue to understand the necessity of doing so along with how important it is. I have learned on my own repeatedly the many examples that I have experienced as a result of not taking care of myself in the way that I need to, including medication adherence.

I no longer want to travel down that road because of the uncertainty that it brings along with the behaviors that are caused by it. I sometimes watch a YouTube video to remind myself of the reality of living with the diagnoses that I carry along with the fact that there are people that care for me just as they are portrayed in that video to continue to give me the reassurance that I am doing the right thing to help me thrive instead of survive.

Life is what you make it. Each and every day I have a choice in what I want to do . For far too long my brain was flawed and it made me see things in a way that was very unhealthy to the point that I was just surviving. When I heard the word thriving, there was a spark that ignited within me that I too had the power within me to make the changes that I wanted to make towards living a better life that I wanted to have.

I was tired of playing the games that I was playing with my medicine and even though for several years I hid it, in 2025 I took a stance towards making the better choices of getting on track, making the pledge of being honest with those that I needed to about it and realizing that life is so much better than not taking it because it sets up something very negative within me that I no longer want to experience again.

There are things that I want to do down the road that will allow me to better myself and for those things to happen I need to be mentally stable. Within time those things will happen if I allow myself to continue to see the benefits that taking care of my mental health do provide and ultimately allow me to thrive instead of just barely survive. There was a point that I was just so sick and tired of playing the games that I was playing, hurting myself and working my way to hurt those that love and care about me. I never want things to be that way again and will do whatever that takes to ensure that I never get to the states that I was once in because I now realize how scary they were and never want to go down that road again.