For the longest time I was battling my mental health conditions by not caring for them. One contributing factor for this behavior was my belief. I thought I couldn’t do certain things that the medication said was possible. I had to recognize there be a possibility that it wouldn’t be the case for me. I needed to figure out whether or not it was true first before addressing it.

Being autistic, I am a literal thinker. When someone says that something was not possible if I had taken a medication, I believed it was true. I held this belief for a long time. The reality was that my life required certain things to happen. These things made what I wanted to do possible. I had always wanted to do something that was not taught to me until a few years ago. I believed that not taking my medication was the reason it was possible.

Recent events this calendar year have influenced me significantly. I realized that I needed to take the medicine again. Later, I planned to revisit the situation to verify if what I had believed was actually true. Eventually, I proved what I had believed to not be true and that I was a healthy human being. It was so joyful to have relief that what I had wanted to do was possible all along! I just had to believe and give things a chance to work themselves out.

Sometimes things happen in the way that they do for a reason. We have to understand things in a different way than what we have been taught or believed in the past. We need to realize something important. If we had been honest with ourselves and taken action when we were well, things have improved sooner. But life reveals itself in mysterious ways. I can’t fault anyone for the things I did or they did in the past. I can only move on in great joy. I am now in a better mindset about my life. Everything has happened in the way that it needed to. It shows that life can be successful and desirable as I want and need it to be.

Granted, it is understandable that some things in life are a luxury. I am truly blessed to have the chance to do what I had long wanted. There are no barriers or things that need to be done. I had to be serious with my mental health for once. This change came after learning that what I wanted to do became a reality. Then, it was a success. There is no harm in doing what I want to do. I am properly educated in what it is and how to do it. It was what I feel had to happen in the way that it had to happen.

Things happen for a reason. Life is about self-discovery. It’s about discovering things about yourself. It’s also about understanding that you need to take care of yourself. You need to find the ways that help you be well too. For me, it was a combination of two things. Both had to be successful. This success needed to be achieved in a healthy manner for all dimensions of my personal wellness. As I always say sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference in improving our quality of life.