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Building an app for Girls with Goals in Toronto Creator & Founder
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I had psychosis for 2 years and I made a full recovery and my 27th birthday is the last thing I can remember. I loved my outfit and like all my friends and everybody I knew was at this party and then everything got super blurry and it started happening super fast for me, like really quick. I shaved my head. I put all of my clothes and all my furniture on Facebook Marketplace and I started writing on my walls like a whiteboard, like a business plan. Also, I thought everyone was evil and I would like start group chats with these people in it telling everybody that I thought they were evil, like my mom, my best friends, like saying that they're evil. Obviously I understand but it still sucks. And for like two years it just keeps getting worse and worse because I didn't wanna go see a doctor basically since I'm an adult in order to get me to a doctor, my parents had to go through this super hard process. Then I end up in the hospital and I have to live there for five months because slowly I kind of like start to realize like the medication starts kicking in and I'm like, wait, like why am I in this hospital? Wait, like God has a secret mission. Like what mission? Like wait, like wasn't it just my birthday? But my birthday was like two years ago. Oh my god. Like just nothing will ever describe that feeling of like waking up from a psychosis and like realizing everything that happened and like the consequences, like I lost my job, I lost most of my friends, then I got out of the hospital and I had like one year of like a depression and like grief. Also I tried to take a university course to like just get things going again and I studied and I used chat GPT to cheat. Okay. And I still got 11% because my brain just like wasn't working. Like I thought for the rest of my life my brain would never work again. And that's when I thought of like starting a business because I knew that I needed to like do something and have money and have a life and that's how I thought of like The Life-Maxing App because I was like tracking my goals and I tried Finch, I tried Notion, I tried every single app for this and I just felt like I could create like a better one. So I like drew what I wanted in a notebook because I didn't know anything about like computers or making apps and I feel like that also like motivated me to like keep pushing forward everyday. And by the way, if you want to sign up for my app, the waitlist is at the link in my bio. If you're someone who's like got a lot of goals and you just wanna like start your goals and stick to your goals, then I think you should sign up because you'd love it and it's designed for you. Okay, suddenly, I don't know, it was like everything was so terrible and then one day I just woke up and like everything was kind of better again. So if you're going through psychosis, the main thing is take your meds. There's no shame in taking your medicine. It helps you. Okay. Number two. This is not some like bullshit. Like everything happens for a reason. But truly the worst thing that ever happened to me, I was like, I'm determined to not make this my story. I need this to be just a part of my story and make my life start now and have a really good life after this. For so long I was alone with this and like ashamed and I'm so happy we're talking about this on the internet so that nobody has to feel ashamed.