I don't like to consider myself mentally ill but I am. My interpretation of the connotations of Mentally ill seems like something someone else has and not me. I guess meaning I am not what the media says when they describe someone as being mentally ill.

I consider myself sick now. I guess it goes into remission when it is under control. I'm not sick as in some pity me way, it's that it is so very impacting on me and my family that I know that it is not how I want to be and how "typically functioning" folks are.