Entry 7
CW: talk of suicidal ideation and self harm
I don't remember the first time that I consciously thought "I want to die"
my mom says that she noticed me start to pull away in middle school and for a while i went with that but after thinking about it i think it was before then. i started self harming in middle school and the first time i told someone about it (albeit over the internet to another mentally ill child) was also in middle school but a feeling that big doesn't happen overnight. i feel like a lot of the abuse i endured as a child is a big reason for it and that was happening years before.
i lived with the feeling for so long that it became background noise that slowly got louder and louder until it was so loud that i had to do something about it.
i don't think that feeling ever really went away. i don't even know how i'd feel if it did. but i do know that i want to live a lot more than i used to.





















