Positivity can be a negative,” I tell her, “if it’s used to diminish events that should be cause for concern. Saying ‘bad things happen to good people’ or “God doesn’t give anyone more than they...

I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like...

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don’t, and trying to keep up with...

Underneath my imagination there didn’t seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides that, there were only twisted steel threads of axiety, woven through my body...

You know the saying a rolling stone gathers no moss? I’m the opposite. I’ve gathered too much, and when one thing happens, it brings up everything else that’s ever been similar to it. I don’t...

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn’t really exist.

Sometimes, even when I’m trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could...