Looking deeply inside of myself I now realize that I've gone to something that probably no one has ever even wanted to talk about something that has traumatized me for the rest of my life something that I will look in the mirror everyday and look at myself wondering did I really go through what I went through this is called mental illness I was always a happy normal person until 2017 I walked out of my college and had a seizure they found a cyst on my right frontal lobe this is my first experience with mental illness it was a tumor on my brain it was affecting the way I saw the world how i communicated with other people how i responded to other people I cried I mourned my identity for quite some time that I had to come to terms with the fact that this tumor was not going to go away and I had to live with the fact that I have mental illness mental illness should not be a stigma and should be something that should be talked about and freely spoken about people should feel free to get the help that they need and support that they need to overcome this epidemic in our society