self harm
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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.
I am not mad anymore
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Dear Mom,
I need to let you know that I am no longer mad.
It is possible that you didn’t know I was mad to begin with. Being a mother myself, I could speculate that you may have not known what “it” was, but I’m sure you’ve known that something wasn’t right with us.
When I called [...]