May is Mental Health Awareness Month and to commemorate, Current State’s Joe Linstroth speaks with longtime Lansing resident Jerri Nicole Wright about what it’s like to live with a severe and persistent mental illness.
Jerri Nicole suffers from borderline personality disorder, which is a mental illness characterized by wide mood swings, impulsive behavior and unstable relationships. She’s had it most of her life, but she’s worked extremely hard to keep the illness from taking over her daily routine. She has a job, has been sober for 24 years, is a member of Charter House, a clubhouse for mentally ill adults in Lansing, and has been married for two decades.
But as you’ll hear from her compelling story, getting to this point in her life hasn’t been easy.