• I am broken

    And I am not normal

    I am not who I want to be

    Instead, I am the one thing I have been raised to not be

    The one thing that will make me lose people close to me

    I am not who my parents expected me to be

    Also, I am disappointed in their eyes

    I am a disappointment in my own eyes

    Struggling

    I know it is wrong

    Sadly, I know its not meant to be that way

    I have not chosen to feel this way

    It just happened

    I have actively fought it

    Honestly, I would rather not acknowledge it than admit to it

    I don’t want to talk about it

    And I don’t want to act on it

    Normal

    All I want is to be normal

    To be who I was meant to be

    Not who I have become

    By choice or not

    I hate myself for my feelings

    I would rather just ignore it

    Then deal with it

    I am not normal

    Sadly, I am broken

    I AM NOT OKAY.

    But one day I will be.

  • I began this journey back in 2020 as a guest blogger. Know I am taking my writings and posting them her. I plan to go back and reflect over them from these past years. This, I hope, will become my new “safe space”. Where I can write my experiences and maybe some feelings down. This is meant to help me and hopefully others feel not so alone in life.

  • Misery loves company they say

    But is it the misery the person wants to share

    Or are they looking to someone for help

    But instead bring them down too

    Is the misery more infectious than the need for help

    Or does the person just not want it enough

    Personally I think I would rather suffer alone

    Than to bring a friend down with me

    I don’t want my friends and family to feel like this

    I wouldn’t want anyone to feel like this

    Like the whole world is sitting on my shoulders

    just waiting for them to make the wrong move.

    Waiting for them to slip

    Waiting for them to pull someone in

    Waiting for them to not be alone

    So they will share the misery

    I don’t want to be infectious with hate

    I don’t want to put bad things in peoples mind

    Id much rather put in light and love

    But where can I start

    To get back to that person

    That everyone loved to be around

    The person that was infectious to laughter

    The person that loved others and at least liked herself

    I guess I should start at the beginning again

    And try to learn a new way of dealing with my sin

    Instead of storing it away and letting it fester

    I need to let it go and pray that it will work out in the end

    Because id much rather love myself and help others

    Than hate myself and essentially drown them

    I don’t want to feed them the lies that I believe

    That im not good enough

    That I’m not worthy

    Because we are good enough

    We are all worthy of love

    And not the misery

  • Depression is a hard thing to live with.

    One of the hardest is trying to explain it to others.

    So here is to me trying.

    Depression Is a dark and twisty place

    Its when your inner thoughts are gray and black

    There is no light

    There is no white

    Just gray or black

    The gray is sad but bearable thoughts

    This is where you look back at what’s wrong grieving the way you handled it

    Wanting to do something to change it but can’t

    These thoughts i think are easier to voice

    To seek help for ask someone to hold you accountable

    To try and continue your life

    The black well that is the worse

    The dark and the bleak

    These thoughts are much more dangerous

    These are the thoughts that keep you imprisoned in your mind

    Keep you in the bed for days

    Give you the feelings of why even try?

    These thoughts are almost impossible to voice

    The darker the thought the harder it gets to talk to people

    The harder it gets to seek help

    And the harder it is to continue anything in life

    Somewhere between the gray and black there is a turning point

    From being sad to wanting to crawl under a rock and die

    I’m not sure where the begins I just know that’s where it ends.

    But surely there is a way to continue life looking towards something

    Instead of looking back at the past If you can get there that’s when you can see a light

    It starts off small almost like a dot

    For me trying to find that dot is the hardest part

    Trying to find something worth looking for the dot.

    But once I find it I plan on holding on to it.

    Because the dot will eventually grow It will become the light that I seek.

    I just have to hold on a little longer.

    And keep looking ahead

  • My life is hard, it is a struggle for me on most days to get out of bed.

    To remember to make myself take my pills that are suppose to help the chemical imbalance in my brain.

    Aka make me happier and more “normal”.

    Sometimes I feel like they work other times I feel like my old self.

    I let the thoughts I thought were gone back in.

    Once they are in I can’t get them out.

    I think about things that I’ve done and the way I liked the feeling.

    But then I think about the people I know that would be disappointed in me if I chose that path once again.

    So I sit and contemplate, should I or no.

    I liked the pain the feeling of getting it out in a way

    That only I could feel I mean I wasn’t hurting anyone else was I?

    But no I made a promise, so I choose to sit in silence.

    I choose to do nothing but sit and stare into the emptiness inside of me.

    I try to fill the hole with anything that it will hold.

    I try to keep my mind occupied to keep away the thoughts of suicide.

    But then there are days when everything seems alright,

    The pain is still there but its not so debilitating.

    On these days life is not so bad.

    I have energy I can talk and reciprocate the feeling and put effort into conversing.

    I can express the things on my mind

    And try to tell them I’m not okay

    And need some help and not just for the day.

    These are the days I’m motivated, to my commitments, to my job, or to anything that involves another person.

    These are the days that I see my people the most.

    I try to explain where I’ve been

    Why I’ve been so distant

    But they know they’ve been there with me before.

    The days that I am okay, those are the days that I feel loved.

    And those are they days I return the love.

  • This is something that I wrote while reflecting on my depression and suicidal thoughts over the past few month. This refers to my past in both my younger self and current self as well.

    As a child:

    I always promised myself that I would never be like you.

    I would never leave my family feeling unloved.

    I would never drink to be drunk.

    I would never medicate myself.

    I would never lay in the bed for weeks at a time.

    I would never do anything to harm myself.

    And yet as an adult:

    I’ve made everyone I love feel hated.

    I’ve drank because I’m sad.

    I’ve thought about taking to many of my own pills.

    I’ve laid in the bed for weeks at a time.

    I’ve cut and carved things into my skin.

    As a child:

    I didn’t realize what it was like to feel Alone, Unloved, and Insignificant.

    All I knew was that my mother didn’t care.

    My mother hated me.

    My mother didn’t want to spend time with me.

    My mother hated herself.

    And most of all my mother wanted to die.

    As an adult:

    I don’t care.

    I hate myself.

    I don’t want to spend time with anyone.

    I wanted to die.

    All because I feel Unlovable, Alone, and Insignificant.

    I wonder if there is any connection between, what I’ve seen as a child and how I am?

    Did I learn to handle life the way I have?

    I mean it would be way easier for me to blame you.

    You were the one that raised me,

    Or was it the other way around?

    What did you expect out of me when you let me take care of you.

    Did you expect me to be normal?

    After all the things I’ve been through?

    After flushing away the last pills you didn’t take.

    After picking up the blades you tried to use to take your life away.

    After scrubbing your blood off of the floor and then putting everything back in place.

    But no I can’t blame this on you I chose to do it too.

    I chose to pick up that knife I chose to make the plan,

    I am responsible for MY actions.

  • We go into the waves,

    Just to be pushed around

    In life’s ups and downs

    Up and down.

    Up and down.

    It all ends up coming around to put you on the ground.

    On the ground it is easy to stay.

    On they ground it is easy to slip away

    On the ground it is easy to hide in shame.

    And think why did I end up this way.

    But to get up, it is much harder.

    It causes you to be much stronger.

    To chase the shame away and choose to stay, even for just one day.

    Learning to fight over the wave that try to consume every breathe that you take.

    That can deliberate you from your pain.

    By helping you decide to no longer wither in shame.

    Instead it is time to rejoice in life

    And let go of the chains that are dragging you down into those waves.

    For at least this day you have chosen to stay and to not slip away.

    Chose life instead of grieving the life you’ve had.

    You only live once, So cherish it while you can.