self harm
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008I called her right after I got out of the meeting. I should have called her two weeks ago, but this is a game I play with myself over and over. Before I got to the meeting, I was a jangle of nerves spilling the coffee on my pants and just a few [...]
My Biggest Regret
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008This is not one of my favorite stories from my past, and I’m not sure why I am writing about it. Without trying to sound too maudlin, sometimes the writing makes it’s own path without me knowing why.
It was my eighteenth birthday, and I was working my full time job as a sales floor [...]
Purge
Monday, May 26th, 2008The last time I did it consciously was in college, after a week in school where all my friendships seemed to fall apart, after a poorly-done hookup/getting together with someone who was a dear friend– and then an even more poorly-managed “umm, wait” on my part. I was exhausted from thinking about it, and [...]
Brave, sad girl
Monday, May 5th, 2008A story from my local paper about a teenaged girl suffering from bipolar and the push in Massachusetts for better funding for youth mental illness treatment.
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