Outward symptoms of mental illness can be scary, I get it. But mental illness can also be really scary. When you’re in a place where it is expressing outwardly, that’s sometimes a really, really scary place to be. I have been a shouter on a street corner and it is not pleasant because there is a part of you that is screaming in terror and longing for someone to come help. But you can’t say ‘help me’ because you don’t know what help looks like, you think you don’t deserve help, you’re afraid that ‘help’ might take a form that actually hurts you, so instead you shuffle through life, invisible, thinking this can’t be the only way.
(Source: se-smith, via inkflowers)
/nodding slowly/ Fuck. Fuck this makes me cry. For everyone who doesn’t get why I shut down and I don’t “talk about my...
The pressure to act sane in public is a huge governing factor in our lives right now. We are so, so far from being okay,...
this was me all morning, and this was what was upsetting me so bad. that i couldn’t be perfect for the two fucking hours...
Likewise. I’ve only been trigger hard enough to act out in public a couple of times, and it is a terrifying experience....
I feel this so hard.