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Non-Fiction
Write it down.
By ReflectingGod
08 October 2008
A teacher once told me when I was not even a decade old
To write everything down, ideas, dreams, thoughts and feelings...
What is better?
Crimson slits on wrists or Tear dropped pages of depression and anger?
What is better?
Broken glass among other things or deep pen strokes on ratty paper?

So, When I was feeling really not all that great I wrote what I felt and thought down.
I want to share this so others can do the same, we don't have to harm ourselves or each other to communicate what we feel and think.
We can write it all down so maybe someone can understand.

I can not speak right now.
I don't want to talk about it.
I can not talk about it.

I feel if I spoke up that I will break into tiny little pieces, the thin strip
of non verbal commutation is the only thing keeping me together
Keeping me sane.

But, I bet I sound insane...Well, wrote this like I am insane.
No, worries.
I am just...Just depressed.
And miserable and gloomy, and cold, and angry plus I feel like my physical self
is so numb.
I woke and the sky was grey and the air was cold but I couldn't really feel anything like I was numb-Well I could still feel a low sense of unhappiness, it was there.
I am trying to find things to do to keep my mind off the things that started this in the first place.

It isn't as easy as it should be.
Distractions usually work or maybe this whole terribleness is a distraction from reality.
Reality that would like to keep me in it's short grip.
Oh, man I do sound stone cold nuts.

I am feeling so many things and I am not feeling anything at all.
If I cry it will hurt.
I hardily cry, I bottle it up all inside until I am ready to snap and then I cry with angry tears. When I cry it stings like hell, like someone stuff pepper behind my eyeballs and after wards my eyes and sockets throb.

Then come the headaches and sense of surrealism.

What is lost cannot ever be saved.

And I have lost my mind.

Reviews

Written by Nick (163 comments posted) 9th October 2008
Hey RG, 
 
Heavy stuff - but I enjoyed it. I noticed a few spags but a quick proof read will sort those. 
 
Particularly liked the last 2 lines. 
 
I actually started writing years ago when a Doctor told me it was good therapy - so I think it's fairly sound advice.
Depression
Written by penstroke (20 comments posted) 28th October 2008
Thanks for this work 
 
I know this is not a forum for therapy but I need to say that I can identify with your depression. It is a state that I visit and know it's cloying lure. Keep writing my friend!

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