Sheree Braswell

  Me at the NAMI Walk 2021 at Belle Isle-Detroit, MI  Hey Loves, I can't believe I am writing this but the freedom I have now is beyond amazing in sharing with you all by blogging about mental health and my journey. As a mental health awareness advocate and thinking about pursuing it for a career as a mental health professional. I want to let you know that mental illness isn't a death sentence!  I know there is a stigma but we are slowly breaking that. There is definitely more mental health awareness now than it was 20 years ago. Social media has been a life saver for me to not feel alone in my journey because thankfully there are brave mental health advocates to share their story. I remember sharing with my best friend and another close friend in High School when I came out of the hospital of me being diagnosed with mental illness. They were so supportive and still are til this day. I later in 2012 heard God say that my purpose was to help those with mental illness overc...

Anne Hathaway and Gary Carr in Modern Love: Season 1 Episode 3 I recently watched Modern Love: Season 1 Episode 3 on Amazon Prime about actress, Anne Hathaway's character having Bipolar Disorder and her dating experience with actor, Gary Carr (who is sooo finnnneee to me lol). I was suggested to watch this show by my cousin-in-love, Dom and she had no idea how badly I needed to be encouraged by her. I really poured my heart out to her how I was feeling about how I've seen people leave their spouses with Bipolar Disorder and that I was honestly feeling discouraged. Even though I know of two young black women with Bipolar Disorder that are married but I'm not close with them to know the ins and out and not everyone feel comfortable sharing and that is okay. Dom shared with me blessed words and reassurance in the Lord that was so on time. In this episode on Modern Love, Anne displays Bipolar Disorder so well and it is not dramatized at all. Bipolar Disorder really does have it...

Dealing with negative voices? Feeling suicidal? Feeling anxious? Feeling depressed? Feeling like your life is falling apart? Feeling afraid? Feeling condemned? Feeling like you don't know how to make it? Feeling like you have to stay strong for everyone else? Feeling like you have to pour into everyone else but feeling resentful because your needs aren't met? Feeling heaviness? Feeling like you are overthinking things? Feeling paranoia? Feeling like you have to be superman or superwoman? Feeling fragile? Feeling wounded? Feeling angry? Tired of hearing "stay strong"?  Just feeling like checking out? Feeling like your feelings aren't validated? Tired of hearing "you got this"? Feeling triggered triggered lately? Feeling extra sensitive? Feeling you should suffer in silence with your mental illness because no one else understands what you are going through and you don't want to be a burden to others? Feeling like you just want to stop praying? Feeling ...

  Sneak peak from my 29th Birthday shoot (May 29th) Hey Loves! Before you jump into assumptions, it's not what you think!  I just wanted to grab your attention to share something that's been on my heart and to encourage someone else----that you do NOT have to wait til after you are married to share your mental health story. I get men and women in my DM's saying that they wish they could have the courage or bravery to share about them being diagnosed with a mental illness. I want to encourage you that YOU CAN! Someone needs to hear your story... me opening up about myself living with a mental illness was hard but the more I do it and reveal to you guys, the easier it becomes. I'm constantly working on talking about me living with Bipolar Disorder to become as easy as breathing.  Sometimes, I still have to affirm myself and break the shame that I've felt because sometimes my mind goes down memory lane of all the episodes, nervous breakdowns and things I've said an...

     Hey Loves,      In the month of July, I shared on my Social Media my experiences with Bipolar and Dating, Mental Health and Education, and Mental Health and Ministry. I did Instastory posts on Instagram @sheree.p.braswell sharing my journey because I am not ready to blog or do a Youtube video fully about it but prayerfully one day I will. But I did want to write a blogpost about how it's been 7 years since my last hospitalization in psychiatric care! I've had four hospitalizations and ever since my last one in 2014, I realized that something was truly wrong with me that I had no control over. That I did have a mental illness and I needed to take care of my mental health. I've learned taking care of your mental health should be a priority just like your physical health should be and that it is just as important. I had to learn there is no shame in having a mental illness and I had to unlearn the myths and let go of the stigma around it. I had my id...