Yep, spot on.

Thank you I needed this.

Anxiety becomes a sumo wrestler putting you in a choke hold, no matter how hard you fight, he still has you in that choke hold. Trapped. Unable to go anywhere.

This is me right now. I’m on medical leave and I feel guilty when I have fun with family.

My lifelong fantasy

this is so true

....Thank you.I'm not enough, I will never be enough, but thank you...

Sometimes anxiety just hits you like a f*****g train. Tackles you to the ground, pins you down, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it or shake it off.

It isn't always that easy to be positive, I just don't think some people understand that because depression is such a taboo topic, that no one is educated about it.

Just the world

I never thought that people would be so... self absorbed that they can't even...I don't know.

I hate this self-hurting thing, not only because I feel awful for all those people who are doing it, but also because it's so difficult to comprehend by us, the people who are lucky to not be struggling with such a bad case of depression/other mental illness. When people don't understand things, most of them become rude, tactless and in some cases(just look at history) even downright dangerous for the misunderstood. :(

I am literally going to fricking KILL this girl. I had a friend who committed suicide in 7TH GRADE. So young! Too young. And some people claimed she did it for attention. How could anyone say that? How could anyone possibly be stupid enough to let those horribly s****y words come out of their mouths... God I could punch something. EDIT: sorry if I come across as insensitive and violent to some people, I'm just kind of emotionally attached to this one.

My sister self harms and my Mum always say to me to ignore it because she's just doing it for attention

Please if you're reading this, don't self harm, you could get sepsis and it could kill you xx

Wait why does the guy look like my friend.....ima go check in on him

It's just so disrespectful to literally anyone with depression, because no one would ever do that for attention, it's horrible.

Wow, bc of personal experience, I hate this one. The insensitivity... wow.

EF HER

honestly the reason i started cutting my wrists was because that is what someone in my mental state was supposed to do. I then kept doing it on hidden parts of my body because i realized why people did it

sometimes, yes. but not in the way you think. I feel that, deep down, some people are begging for someone to notice and save them, while dreading that same thing. *sometimes* they don't want to kill themselves, deep down. so they cry for help, hoping someone catches them and stops them from ending their own lives.

Hell no it's not for attention. Maybe a cry for help but not attention at all. The last thing I wanted was the attention

put em up imma bout to equality your stupid self

In my experience, I'm doing self harming to distract myself from the pain that my mind brought... Back then, nothing stronger than physical pain, in being able to shift my focus. Now I found many healthy ways to do it. Talk to a friend, drink warm beverages, etc...

I am that to myself...

i think

There is nothing I hate more than people who say this.

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I’ve heard people say that people who cut horizontally are doing it for attention

This can't describe it better.

Love is there when you need it most. ❤💕

I used to be like this. Painful.

I have days when I really can't get out of bed. Then I feel guilty for wasting my day and not being productive. Sometimes I just need a "free" day like this, I keep reminding myself.

People ask me "Are you okay?" and my anxiety tells me not to say that I'm' never okay because then they'll ask me why and I'll have to answer questions nobody has found answers to yet, and my depression will never allow me to be okay.

A picture of my life... Your art is beautiful by the way <3

I wish...

This one made me cry

true.

Depression wants to steal your life, like a possessive lover.

I wouldn't really call them a friend. A toxic one, maybe.

Well, the wolf thing at least looks kind of friendly.

I have a thing I like to call double depression. I'm always depressed, always sad. But sometimes for no reason, my depression gets so much greater that I can no longer even pretend to be happy or deflect it with humor or laugh with "friends" so they don't ask me about it.

mE

Thanks, Mom. Self hate often starts in childhood. Being repeatedly told for years that you are worthless scars you for life.

The time of day when you are alone with your thoughts, and nothing to distract you.

That's the last thing I can do: stay still. I feel like I need to get up and run away.