Broken Mirrors I’m standing in front of the full-length mirror in my bedroom, scrutinizing my reflection while I devour the rest of my Halloween candy. The walls are plastered with flashy posters of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, my current idols. I look at their identical, doe-eyed faces, then back at my own, scowling at my [...]
My past has passed don't let your past define you. My childhood was hard being bullied about my sexuality before I knew it myself. Gay puff queer big chin big ears every day for all my school years.Having such low self-esteem no confidence I became cheeky to mask the fact of how I felt inside [...]
We've heard people talk about others having "anger issues," but that could mean a lot of things. There are specific mental illnesses that have anger as the primary symptom. For example, Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is an illness that is characterized primarily by the person being extremely angry. Someone with IED has severe impulse control. [...]
My feelings are real no matter what you say. My emotions have power no matter if you acknowledge them or not. I've realized that you aren't healthy for me. I step into the fire when I pay attention to the words that you spew at me. I don't know how to leave what we have. [...]
What the hell are all these feelings? By Aaron Smith What are these things in our chest, derived from somewhere deep in our psyche? We call them happiness, anger, sadness, joy. We feel these things as the days go by, but what are they exactly? Are they just arbitrary spasms of brain chemistry? Are they [...]
I don't want anyone to know that I want to die. It's embarrassing all the thoughts that run through my head. I'm afraid of half of them and I don't want to say them out loud because that makes them real. So I pretend that everything is fine. I keep my head down, do my work, [...]
I've been suffering from depression since my early twenties. I've been fighting with it, I've been angry at it for ruining my life, I've tried to embrace it as part of me, I've tried to accept it by actually accepting myself with the dark side and all. It hasn't been easy, that's for sure. From [...]
He had a hold on me from the beginning. When I looked into his eyes I realized that I wanted to be with him. Little did I know who he was inside, broken, abused fragmented. He was someone who needed to be taken care of. But he didn’t ask me to take care of him [...]
I would say, the most profound relationship I have had in my life is with the one that made me so familiar with my fingertips and the acid in the throat. The relationship that makes me feel guilty for putting any type of food in my body. The one that draws me in everytime something [...]
Hello, my name is John A Wilson and I struggled with severe depression and suicidal thoughts from 2008, at the age of 26, when I had just graduated as a part 1 architect but with not one vacancy for a job In my locality and unable to move because I was engaged at the time. [...]
