If we don't speak up about what we are dealing with regarding treatment side effects (or whatever it is), who will know? Who will listen? Who will care? And how will things ever improve for those who come after us?
I understand mental health is a big issue in today's society, but what happens when the mental health of the provider is at stake here. What should we do?
What do you do when the life you want so desperately to forget collides with the life you've created? You feel.
We all have baggage, we are carrying emotions we weren't meant to carry, and have allowed them to shape our identity!
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Being a Black woman and wearing the badge of honor of being strong is exhausting to say the least.
What was the most impactful were the stories told by each of us living with HIV. It would not have been nearly as successful without our voices.
Stigma is deadlier than the disease itself, and the top driver of HIV stigma, in my opinion, is the church.
Changing our mindset to use the winter months as literal rest and mental hibernation gives us the emotional and physical strength to emerge as the HIV leaders ... we are in the New Spring.
It doesn't have to be perfect to be just right. If not art, some hobby or venture that allows you to be in a moment that is not tied to HIV, or responsibility to anyone but yourself.