you don’t realize how much your environment affects your mental state until you finally spend time somewhere that feels calm and your body stops feeling tense for once
Women don't enter trades like men do because the working conditions almost guarantee a lifetime of sexual harassment and sexism, not because they're too weak to learn carpentry.
Memory loss from deep depression and trauma doesn’t get talked about enough. People think it’s just sadness or being stuck in your head, but it goes way deeper than that. You forget conversations, names, whole chunks of your life—not because you didn’t care, but because you were in survival mode. When you’re overwhelmed and just trying to get through each day, your brain isn’t focused on making memories, it’s focused on keeping you going. And nobody really acknowledges that part. Healing isn’t just about emotions—it’s about piecing yourself back together, including parts of you that you don’t even remember losing.