We're all messes of our own kind ∞

[felpalz]

People with depression are some of the strongest people I’ve met. They have to be. The pain and hopelessness of depression is immense and to keep existing day after day under the weight of that takes an almighty fight, fuelled by almighty strength and courage. 

 We all have needs we can’t give up. They’re the big ones and they’re an inescapable part of being human – love, validation, respect, visibility, safety, influence, connection, appreciation, purpose. You know the ones. When one of these needs isn’t met, the temptation can be to push it down – to ‘depress’ it – to where it’s out of awareness and can’t cause trouble. But of course, any symptom whether physical or emotional will always cause trouble when it’s ignored. It takes the strength of a warrior to keep pushing things down, and getting on with life. Eventually, when people have been strong for too long the armour will crack. Depression hurts, but it makes sense. It’s a creative, adaptive withdrawal from a world that feels painful to be in.

https://www.heysigmund.com/when-someone-you-love-has-depression/

[kipplekipple]

“I don’t want to die, I just don’t want to exist any more” sounds mild if you’ve never experienced it, but it is in fact a horrible, violent way to feel.

[primulaceas]

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

[your-health-hazard]

[kingpoet]

ana mendieta / sylvia plath

[honigimohr]

“How much pain fits inside a person?”

— (via randgaengerin)

[litaratura]

Sophia Lornie, On Anger in Flatline

[sa-dnesss]

[deviika]

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Charles Bukowski

[mind-over-looks]

Fitzy and Charlie <3

[noorshirazie]

She is a tired poem drained of all meaning, deprived of the beauty that once radiated from her stanzas.

Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)

[bitesizedpoetry]

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

— Amy Tan

[rahma-djebbari]

“ When I look at you, I see a girl who's trying to survive despite it all.

Trying to survive the heartbreaks, the severe anxiety and low self-esteem. Surviving the sleepless nights, the depression, and loneliness.

When I look at you I see a survivor. I see a fighter who wants to take the bull by the horns and prove herself to the world.

You deserve all the love and respect. Be kind to yourself, you're all that you've got.”

-Rahma Djebbari.

[rahma-djebbari]

"i know how exhausting it is to keep fighting your battles without seeing an instant result.

The moments you feel utterly helpless you just wanna give up because you keep saying to yourself "what's the point of it all?" The moment your chest tightens and you just want to talk to somebody but no one is there for you.

I know how lonely it must've been for you but you kept holding on.

Despite it all, you survived. You pushed through. And darling i just want you to know that you're doing your best and you should be proud of yourself.

Climb your obstacles and look forward to see the outcome for it's a process and you should trust it.

Grow though what you go through and never give up. I'm rooting for you."

—Rahma Djebbari.

[no-understxnding]

“Maybe now I stop fighting and start drowning instead.”

If the world wants me gone, let it take me.

[ryantippery]

[cordaterings-deactivated2021090]

when oscar wilde said "i'm tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said ''i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart" and when rilke said "this heavy humanness" .

[approvers]