This post contains triggers. I am a cutter and I don’t hide my scars. My scars speak of who I am, what I have gone through and who I am becoming. My numerous scars represent the violence that happened to me—the sexual abuse and neglect. They scream that I was raped as a child, they […]
Derealization/depersonalization. Me? I don’t know much about it—I never believed it, so I never bothered to explore it. In my early 20s I had a period where I almost could not interact with people—I felt disconnected with them—like they were in different world. Matter of fact I felt like the world in general was working […]
I am on a good run—almost 3 months without any major depression. I am stable on my meds and therapy is going well. I have determined that not being depressed does not mean you are happy all the time. Since I don’t have the escape of sleeping 16 hours a day or the intrusive thoughts […]