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Brian and John Paul are basically me. That's scary.

    Obert feels the dual life she led for so long isn’t unique for people who suffer from mental illnesses and who “must mask their symptoms in order to function in the outside world.”

Yep. This is a thing. I was doing that for a long, long time. Up until about a month and a half ago when that dam broke and my life has been in absolute shambles since then. Working on building from the very bottom at this point, and it's weird how you don't really think of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs until you realize just where you stand on that. This is a very cool project, and as I become more open about mental health (I'm still grappling with the idea that I suffer from mental illness?) it's something I find to be more and more shockingly lacking in this country.