DID You Hear? Living with Chronic Mental Illness

Welcome to a channel dedicated to living alone with chronic mental illness after 50 — honestly, gently, and mostly without shame. This space is for adults navigating mental health over 50, especially those managing depression, anxiety, (c)PTSD, PNES, D.I.D., or other long-term mental (and physical) health conditions while aging, living solo, and trying to build a meaningful life.

Here you’ll find real conversations about aging alone with mental illness in later life, emotional resilience, daily routines, coping strategies, and what it’s truly like to survive — and finally, more often than not, thrive — with chronic mental illness as an older adult. We talk about all of the emotions, isolation, independence, self-care, stigma, health advocacy, frustrations, and the long journey of mental health recovery in your 50s, 60s, and beyond.

You might find tips and tricks, humor, different perspectives, fear, joy, random recipes, my dog, and some more humor.