It's been a terrible winter ( Read more... )

There are two ways to explore these recent experiences:
1. Through the eyes of the clinical.
2. Through the eyes of the spiritual.

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My grandmother wrote this the year that she killed herself.

LONG ISLAND OPINION; ARISE! YOU CAN'T SLEEP ANYWAY ( Read more... )

Time ( Read more... )

I started a sketchbook in April. This sketchbook contains art, poetry, and writing. It captures some of my most vulnerable, emotional, and terrifying moments from within the last few months. I am almost done filling it up. I am going to share some pieces from it.

I would post them in my art blog, but my mother watches that site. She judges ( Read more... )

Age 13You know what's scary. It's when you see events on TV, movies, shows, thinking "That'll never happen to me." You see things like police and all that. But when it really happens to you, you're not prepared. It's more of a shock. It's like when you read a book about it, you think it's as real as it can get. But the real thing is even more ( Read more... )

Age 16A year ago today, when I was released from the hospital, the doctors said I could lie. They said I should tell everyone I had a nasty stomach infection, or mono, or influenza. Anything other than the truth. I did lie for a while, to be honest, telling a few people who asked that I was exposed to Sars. But I’m not much of a liar, and that didn ( Read more... )

1. I have a mental illness ( Read more... )

to the readers of this ( Read more... )

Age 13Life has teachings only the intellectual will learn. Some are more deservant than others. Some are more priviledged than others. Some just accept things as they are ( Read more... )