Self Harm
“I am not my pills”
Sometimes I wonder why I take these pills everyday. Then I look back on my life. A lot of situations factored into it. My problems started once I got to be about 12 or 13 years old, that’s when it all changed. There was an incident I was involved in, which led to severe bullying. … Read more
“I am not my psychosis”
I was 17 when it really started. I didn’t know the voice was not me, I thought I just had really disturbed thoughts. I blamed myself for having vicious, violent ideas. The hallucinations started when I was a junior in high school. They were very minor. At their worst several instances per hour. I would … Read more
“I am not my self harm”
Scars are funny things. I should know; I’ve managed to amass a collection of them well into the double-digits, scattered all over my body. Some are a natural consequence of being alive: I have a really gnarly one on my knee from a dugout misadventure back when I played softball, for instance. But the vast … Read more