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People love this mother's confessional Facebook post about mental health

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Mother of two Cierra Fortner took to Facebook to share her story of mental illness, after a cashier at Walmart told her her children are always well behaved and she seemed to ‘have it all together’.

Fortner said she just thanked the cashier, but that there was more she wanted to tell her.

She wrote on Facebook that she has a personality disorder with anxiety and depression.

She writes:

I want her to know that I can't always get myself up off the couch to feed them anything more than frozen pizza and cereal. 

I want her to know that my son is late for school three out of four days because I regularly forget what day and time it is, despite the toddler size calendar in my kitchen. 

I want her to know I have those 'I'm losing my s***' moments when I have to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. 

I want her to know that I was trying to hurry out of there because I had forgot the diaper bag at home and Brenton was hungry. 

I want her to know that once we got to the parking lot the "well behaved" child decided to stand up in the cart and I wasn't paying attention and barely caught him as he almost hit the concrete. 

But most importantly I want her to know I don't have it together and may never have it all together.

I don't know a mother out there that has it all together but everything we do is done with love for our children and that right there makes you the perfect mom and in our children's eyes we most definitely have it all together. 

And it seems people can really resonate: her post has been shared almost 100,000 times.

HT BuzzFeed

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