I am constantly looking for scientific answers to justify what I believe to be true with regards to both self-injury and eating disorders. To an outsider, these disorders are hard to understand, but for the sufferer, it rarely comes as a surprise ( Read more... )

I read a beautiful sentence this week in a book. It was talking about memories and how time is more destructive to memories than a house fire because until a fire that destroys the memories in an instant, time allows part of the memory to remain and other parts to slowly fade into darkness ( Read more... )

Because people are unpredictable, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they will let you down ( Read more... )

Just as people will say they had no idea of some of the struggles I faced, I too had no idea of the struggles of others. I feel like I should have. Maybe I could have done something ( Read more... )

I am reading an incredible book right now called "A Wolf At The Table" by Augusten Burroughs. This memoir is a companion piece to his other memoir "Running With Scissors", and details the relationship Augusten had with his terribly abusive father ( Read more... )

Standing in the return/exchange line at a local retailer is something I avoid at all costs. Invariably there are twenty people in line, few with receipts, and one cashier wearing a tag "new member in training". If anything can send me off the deep end fast, this will ( Read more... )

Photographs were an integral part of my recovery journey. In the hopes of helping me to identify the circumstances around some of my first self-injury episodes, I was tasked with pouring over hundreds of photographs that my mother, myself or other family members had taken over the course of 36 years ( Read more... )

I am always amazed at what bothers certain people. A friend of mine cannot stand the sound cotton balls make when they are being pulled apart. I didn't realize how much this bothered her until we were getting a makeover and the woman was trying to split a large cotton ball into two smaller ones. I laughed in the beginning as my friend was literally ( Read more... )