Your daily reminder: if it makes you unhappy, cut it off
I’ve been feeling a little poorly today, so naturally the mental health has taken a bit of a kick because I feel guilty for taking the day off of work, etc. When the cogs in my brain start working overtime, it can often be quite damaging. I talk to myself differently, I view myself differently. I become different. It occurred to me today that I have felt like a ghost of myself for some time now. I look in the mirror and a reflection looks back at me.. She looks like me, sounds like me, talks like me. But she is not me. I’ve become a shell of the person I used to be. This post makes me feel very vulnerable because it is something I haven’t wanted to admit for a long time now. I often feel like if I open up to people about feeling sad about things that have affected me as a consequence of other people’s actions, to me the other person has won. I don’t like that. But I don’t feel like I have any power anymore. I feel like these people that have hurt me have taken a part of me away that I ...