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I have spent over a decade of my life silently battling conditions of poor mental health. The earliest memory I have of self-harm occurred was when I was 8. I never received any official diagnosis nor professional therapy due to a lack of understanding and access. Through years of stumbling around, I found that getting better from any mental illness has a lot to do with management and less with trying to find a perfect cure. So, here are a few tricks I use to make the standing-up process easier.