I used the words nearly superhuman in a message to my love. It was meant to describe how functioning on a day to day basis can seem that way. I supported a family with a mental illness diagnosed. There were challenges when I needed hospitalization. But the constant was always to go back and work. Keep going under a guise of what some would call normal. 3 or 4 twelve hour day shifts. Were followed by one or two days off. Then it would be twelve hour nights. Year in and year out with no real sleep wake cycle. And the decision one makes that at best only affects the fate of machinery or infrastructure. At worst they affect human safety. Folks any of you that functioned or are still functioning. Any of you that choose life over a far worse alternative.  You're survivors of things that frighten others to the point of not wanting to imagine themselves in our situations. All of us with mental illness are winning and living under conditions others fear to their core. So superhuman seems to be somewhat accurate. I'm proud of my resilience. I hope you can be proud of yours as well.