To what extent does your mental illness have an affect on your physical body? I find that my body and mind are so strongly connected that one cannot be good without the other being good, and one cannot be bad without the other being bad. It isn’t necessarily just my depression that does this, which is a common thing. It’s more that my ADHD-PI and bipolar affect my body. When I’m having uncontrollable symptoms of either, my body seems to feel 100 lbs heavier, I have a really hard time convincing myself to get up to do anything, I’m dizzy, my brain is in a fog as if I’d just woken up regardless of how long it’s been since I woke up, I’m completely uncoordinated, my muscles feel like I’ve just worked out for hours, I have a hard time actually getting words out to speak, and I’m usually so tired that I have to nap throughout the day, or sometimes sleep for literally 48 hours or more. It just looks like I’m being lazy because a lot of people don’t realize how much your mental state can change your physical demeanor, uncontrollably. How does your mental illness play a role in your physical state on a daily basis?