insanity

"I am not the sad girl anymore. No, I am more than that. I am strong and caring. I am both confident and insecure. I am simultaneously one of the kindest and meanest people you will ever meet. I am ugly, I am beautiful, and I am bursting with fire. I am home to strange and brilliant thoughts. I am heavily flawed and I am still good enough. I am so much, and I will never allow myself to be reduced to a single word again. Even when I am sad, I am still so much more. I am not the sad girl anymore. No, I am everything."

[oldwinesoul]

[putaind3merde]

[minuty]

[oldwinesoul]

[ruhaniya]

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[paper-wounds]

[mournfulroses]

Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "My Night, I Think of You Obsessively,"

[spill-the-wine]

[i-will-recover-tomorrow]

[agoodnight]

[filth-glam-horror]

[sarah44ana]

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I will be skinny

I WILL BE SKINNY

[borderlinereminders]

Are you really not making progress, or are you just constantly raising the bar?

It’s likely you’ve made more progress than you realize. It’s easy to get stuck on seeing how far we have to go, and we often forget about how far we’ve come.

We also are a lot harder on ourselves than we would be others. Would you be proud of the progress if it was a friend and not you? That might be a sign you’re being too hard on yourself.

And sometimes, we do go backwards and that’s okay. It doesn’t erase your progress. And you can get back to where you were and beyond.

You deserve to be proud of yourself for everything you’ve made it through, for making it to where you are and surviving.

[justlikebullets]

[traumasurvivors]

If you take your trauma as a “life lesson” in order to cope, then that’s valid. But don’t push that on other people unless they are okay with it.

Don’t tell others “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”.

For me, what didn’t kill me gave me a personality disorder. It gave me PTSD. No part of me feels stronger and having that narrative pushed on me feels invalidating.

It’s okay if it didn’t make you stronger. It’s okay if it just fucked you up and there was no positive you took from it. That’s completely okay and you aren’t a failure.

[deviika]

Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka