Female Quotient x Sonique Louise Foundation
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Let’s talk about the ugly side of bipolar disorder. The parts people don’t like to hear or are too embarrassed to speak about.
It’s losing trust in your own mind. Constantly questioning whether your thoughts, emotions, or decisions are you or an episode forming. The manic highs and the depressive lows. It’s the shame after episodes. The apologies. The mistakes. The decisions that were made that don’t truly align with who you are as a person. The relationships strained or lost. Not from lack of love, but from a brain at war with itself. It’s isolation. Pulling away because you’re afraid of being a burden, while quietly needing connection the most.
It’s surviving moments you didn’t want to be here anymore and then having to learn how to live after that. Medication trials. Side effects. Acceptance. Resistance. Learning that stability isn’t weakness and needing help doesn’t erase strength. Even on good days, bipolar disorder leaves scars, hypervigilance, grief, and a level of self-awareness earned through pain.
I advocate because honesty saves lives. Because romanticizing this illness helps no one. Because survival is something to speak about, not hide. This is the ugly but necessary truth.
And I’m still here. Still growing. Still choosing to live. Walking right with you. Because, we are Stronger Together. 🤍
In mental solidarity,
This woman needs no introduction. 💕
Angelina Jolie embodies a modern feminism rooted in agency, accountability, and global impact, redefining what it means for women to wield power in public life. She has consistently leveraged her visibility not for self-mythology but to advocate for women’s bodily autonomy, refugee rights, and the protection of women in conflict zones, often confronting entrenched political and cultural systems head-on.
By speaking openly about choices surrounding health, motherhood, and survival, she has normalized female decision-making without apology, challenging the expectation that women remain silent, ornamental, or agreeable. Angelina’s trailblazing lies not only in what she has achieved, but in how she has reframed female influence as strategic, compassionate, and unapologetically authoritative.
Thank you Angelina for being a fierce advocate and trailblazer for women’s rights.
Taking Meds Isn’t Weak—Shaming Is.
My Zoloft (Sertraline) helps me stay balanced with Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and panic/anxiety. Mental health medication isn’t something to be ashamed of, it’s healthcare. It’s self-care. If meds help you live, function, and breathe easier, that’s strength.
Medication is part of how I survive and thrive. I’m not ashamed of that. It’s okay to need medication to support your mental health. You’re still strong. It’s incredibly courageous facing your mental health.
I’m right here with you.
P.S. ✨️ Oh, next time anyone thinks about pill shaming someone, don’t. ✨️
Happy 36th birthday to my big sister! Who has literally always had my back! My role model, my example, my forever inspiration. I love you more than words can hold, and I’m endlessly grateful for the strength, grace, and wisdom you lead with every day. Thank you for loving me when I didn’t know how to love myself. Thank you for loving me through the mental instability and my most fragile moments.
As you step into this new chapter, I hope it meets you with reward, fulfillment, and deep, well-earned peace. You’ve always carried us (myself, Daytwon, Feliciti and Quincy) with love, and you’ll always be our Momma’s first love. You are steadfast, cherished, and unforgettable. I love you.
This season sat me down and humbled me in ways I didn’t see coming. My season of humility and of alignment. 🩷
It stripped me of ego, status, illusions, and patterns that no longer aligned with who I’m becoming. This was my season where I took accountability for my choices, faced my shortcomings without excuses, and learned that alignment sometimes feels like loss before it feels like peace.
God did not allow this to punish me but to realign me with my values, goals and principles. To show me how powerful and costly mishandling free will can be. I owned my mistakes, released what wasn’t meant for me, and learned that growth requires accountability, not denial. Or delusion.
I’m no longer chasing what looks good or feels easy, I’m choosing what feels aligned. Humbly and with purpose.
This season taught me that I’m not bigger than the program, no matter how much value I hold.
With humility and hope,
2025 hurt. 🥹 Deeply. Loss stacked upon loss, mistakes met consequences, silence replaced closure. But this year also taught me how to sit with myself, own my story, accept responsibility, be more self-aware and to never let this world turn me cold.
✨️ The silver lining of 2025: finally gaining my mental stability. I am the strongest I’ve ever been mentally. Mental well-being. Mental clarity. Mental sharpness. It’s priceless.
God’s word declares:
🙌🏼 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. -2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NIV
With humility and hope,
Sonique Louise 🩷
Founder, Sonique Louise Foundation
From one suicide survivor to another, I love you.
📌 Changing the Narrative on Suicide.
With hope and solidarity,
🗣 CHECK ON YOUR PEOPLE! Suicidal ideation is REAL. I’m not speaking as a mental health advocate right now, I’m speaking as a person who attempted suicide in 2018. 🥹
“A woman was saved Saturday afternoon after climbing onto the I-96 overpass and moving toward the middle of the freeway.
A Detroit police Sgt. quickly reached her and grabbed her through the fence. Officers kept talking with her until Detroit Fire Department crews arrived with a ladder truck. Firefighters were then able to bring her down safely. The woman was experiencing a mental health crisis at the time.
If you or a loved one is in distress, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255, or text 741-741. Support is free, confidential, and available 24/7 for civilians and veterans. Locally, you can also call the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN) Helpline at 800-241-4949. (They come to you.)”
📌Credit: Metro Detroit News
On September 5, 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the keynote address at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
