A Walkthrough A Year of Mental Illness

Helena Joao
6 min readJun 16, 2021

If I am being honest, I don’t love writing about this. It takes some courage to share your own experience, but if mine is able to help some of you, I’m more than glad to write about it.

Before I start, I just want to leave here written that if you know anyone going through a hard time, do what you can to help, but please read about it, try to help in helpful ways. Your heart can be in the right place, but dealing with people going through mental illnesses is complicated. There are so many things I’ve been said throughout this year that hurt me even though I knew…

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Helena Joao

writer, blogger & content creator. just here to share moments, recommendations and kind words. learn more on www.bellesliving.com