"The thoughts are slowly winning and I'm scared of what I might do once it does."
— something your suicidal friend would never admit to you
Do you know
I’m not me anymore
There’s nothing left to live for
You say you know everything
But why does it fails when it comes to me
Do you know
Even I don’t know who I am anymore
My brain is is slowly killing me
And I’m just letting it be
And my body is begging for me survive
But what if I don’t want to
To be called all these names
To be ashamed of myself
To HATE myself
Do you know
Your words are like knives in my heart
And these knives are tearing me apart
You took my innocence away
But for you it was just a play
Can you stop
Please STOP
Cause I don’t think I can fight anymore
“Trust me when I tell you: The most beautiful eyes have cried the most. The happiest smile was sad all along. & the coldest person felt the most.”
— The Poetic Boy
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…
Fernando Pessoa, from Un Soir à Lima; A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems (tr. by Richard Zenith)