Kelly

like pretty pretty good with like experiencing my emotions and letting myself feel what needs to be felt plus I also have like a good support system so yeah I I feel like processing it has been good for the most part while I was kind of keeping it together for everybody

I did start to fall apart and that's why I joined therapy.

But my own mental health was depleting.

So my other brother came back from Florida and let my parents know that like I can't be the only one handling all of this.

So they both

Once they heard that, they were like, oh my gosh, yeah, we need to get it together.

So they both worked together, which is extremely difficult for them.

are two very different people, but they did work together and just having communication and getting Brian back to where he needed to be, which really involved the medication, just staying on top of the medication.

That was, that's the most important thing.

After they were able to work together, then my Brian ended up with the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder.

So for a while, we just had the diagnosis of bipolar, but now it's schizoaffective disorder.

And when did they diagnose him with that?

It was either 2021 or 2022.

yeah one of those years and during it it must have been 2021 because that's when my husband and I well then boyfriend we moved to Pennsylvania and for me that was also a chance to get away from everything and just focus on myself so but with that I also realized how much this did this did take a toll on me I was not my best self at that point

I was not a ray of sunshine.

So living with my husband, I was not always the nicest.

I was just in and out of depression and I struggled to even find a job in PA too because I just didn't have that motivation.

I think a lot of it came from the trauma endured.

I also realized

I wasn't telling at this point I wasn't telling my friends or close close friends about the situation I even.