To trauma survivors:
May you be treated so well it makes you uncomfortable.
May you experience a love so authentic it disrupts every lie the mistreatment wrote on your heart.
I can’t bring myself to take my masks off of the “ready to go hook” by my front door because I may somehow trigger another pandemic across the world…. the way my brain makes me feel so powerful and so insignificant at the same time is WILD!
Does anyone else feel extreme anxiety when planning to do something that is just for you, even though the thing you plan to do is months away and you know will be fun but you already feel a “sorry I’m sick” excuse coming up from the depths of your guilt/anxiety ridden stomach?
I spoke w/@AnnaKendrick47 about the pain & confusion of emotional abuse, how deeply it makes you question yourself. Kendrick's new film #alicedarling is a rare, nuanced portrait that will feel heartbreakingly familiar for survivors and their loved ones https://t.co/HTMveT82FC
"Check in on your friends" is nice, but I wish we would do more to increase mental health care, including medication, which is so often stigmatized. Normalize mental health days, and reduce the pressure for people to constantly be working