My name is Cailee McKay and right now, I am the ripe old age of twenty. I'm from a small town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. A town so small, in fact, that in the year 2017 it FINALLY got its own Tim Hortons. Imagine.

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At this current time I attend Canada's only all-woman university, Brescia University College. It's a charming little school full of female kickassery and is part of a larger and much more recognized institution, The University of Western Ontario. I was studying psychology with the intent of becoming a psychologist so that I could help people like myself who struggle with mental health issues, but I've recently changed my mind and want to spend my energies on healing myself instead. You cannot pour from an empty cup.

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Coming from an unstable home life as a child and teen, and with unlucky genes, I bounced around from therapist to social worker to psychologist, all of whom were unhelpful while I struggled with self-harming, depression and OCD. It would take me being put on a lot of long waiting lists and aggressive anorexia for my illnesses to be taken seriously, and in my grade twelve year I was hospitalized and began my journey through recovery.

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Later in recovery I would have my final set of diagnoses, which replaced depression with bipolar ii disorder, which made so much sense for me.

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I have the fortune of having a wonderful therapist whom I've been working with for the better part of two years and a wonderful NP.

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Throughout recovery I've had slip ups and one major relapse that I am currently pulling myself out of. Recovery is an ongoing state of being in my opinion, and some days are better than others. C'est la vie!