1. My injuries are invisible to other people: severe depression, generalized anxiety disorder, complex post traumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder.
2. People understand visible health problems: broken bones or influenza.
3. Some health problems are invisible, such as diabetes, but people can understand them by accessing​ cultural knowledge.
4. I tried to make my health problems visible.
5. I tried to help people understand my invisible injuries.
6. As of April 2017, I accept that I failed.

Honesty and radical openness: “It’s too much!”

1. At 10 years old, I vowed to not lie.
2. By 20 years old, my childish ideal had evolved: I aspired to not lie, to tell the truth, and to be open.
3. For 31 years, I have devoted significant resources to developing and practicing this ideal.
4. When trying to make my health problems visible and helping people understand my invisible injuries​, I was honest and radically​ open.
5. It failed. A common response was, “It’s too much!”
6. My ideal of truth, non-lying, and openness contributed to the destruction of my health and my life.
7. I shall change this ideal.
8. I have no predictions about the process or result of changing this major foundation of my character.