It's not just other people we need to forgive. We need to forgive ourselves.
One of the worst parts of mental illness is that it’s so hard to explain to other people.
Trying to describe what it’s like to have a mental illness is like trying to describe colours to someone who was born blind.
I can try to explain as many times as you need, but you don’t understand. Nobody does… I feel so alone. So isolated. So empty…
This life exhausts me......
Fernando Pessoa, from Un Soir à Lima; A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems (tr. by Richard Zenith)
“I have thoughts in my head that can never be spoken.”
They’re destroying me
“its getting bad again but i don’t know if i have the motivation to stop it this time.”
— i thought i was done feeling like this