1. They didn't break me. I thought they did, but I am very much stronger than what they tried to do to me.

2. I am ultimately responsible for myself: my health, my feelings, my decisions, my behaviors. Might as well own that and take back my control. As an adult it has never been in anyone else's control anyway. I'm not that child anymore; that's reassuring.

3. My mental illness is a real pain at times, but it is episodic and I've made it through each and every time. It doesn't doom me; it just creates episodic challenges that I can manage one at a time.