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I donāt know how to be the person I want to be. The worst part is waking up in the mornings or laying down at night, knowing I have to live with the things that i did, and the things that I let happen. I have to live with the person I was, and I donāt want to.Ā
As writers, we need to see visual images and artists create poetry in colors, shapes, paints, ink, many different mediums...they can say what we say in words through images.Ā
We can also loose ourselves in images, get carried away, we can feel, understood, connected or inspired.
This is important to have an understanding between minds. It helps us grow as writers and as people.
Here is an image that captivated me. The texture of the clouds, the breeze, the swords marking places like gravestones, the sunsetting colors of the sky. Just lovely by @sugarmint-dreams.
Eleven years have passed and I still havenāt saved myself. Iām still too alone to even have someone to ask for help when I so desperately need it.ā
āā¦āheās mean to you because he likes you.ā ā¦The marks of these words last beyond oneās youth. Little girls who were told to love boys who were mean to them will often grow up to be women who accept physical and emotional abuse as affection. Words like this have so much meaning behind them. I had to learn through many bad experiences that love isnāt nervousness and unkind words, itās comfort and contentedness. I only wish someone had told me that when I was younger. Itās amazing how much effect simple words can have. You would never tell an abuse victim 'heās mean to you because he likes you.' So letās not do the same with children.ā
Kali Pohle [Things We Should Stop Telling Young Girls]
I saw the movie Inside Out with my kids months ago and meant to write something about how hard and great it was to see such an accurate depiction of depression, made so lucid and visual. Many people think that to ...... read more
Even though writing is difficult, personally it became a way for me to speak my mind and has helped me get through many difficulties. Sometimes it is truly helpful to create. As at times writing can be a door or an exit for the mind.Ā
This is such a beautiful article on author Padma Viswanathanās struggle with depression and how writing saved her life. I recommend taking the time to read. Here are few great quotes from her article:Ā
āWhen I was twenty-one, my brain shoved me over some unseen cliff. I fell into what felt, literally if subjectively, like a cavern. I knew, in a way, that the cavern existed only in my mind and yet it was so tangible that I had trouble believing it was my own creation....
This was my first experience of depressionānot a sadness but rather a burial. I was confined, couldnāt act, couldnāt properly be with others, could not even do much real thinking beyond the idea that I was to blame for thisāthat it was a punishment for my having failed, by the ripe old age of twenty-one, to find my lifeās calling.Ā
I began to keep a journal. One of the therapists may have suggested it, or it may have been a practice whose time in my life had finally arrived. I began by writing how about what a worthless person I was. Getting it down on paper gave my characterization a cast of objectivityāeven if no one else would believe it, it was in writing now, and so had to be true on some level... seeing ink fill a blank page is its own pleasure, I learnedāit gives a quick and easy sense of accomplishment. And perhaps because this was so clearly what I needed, I continued.
Ā Philippa Perry, a British therapist, in a little book, How to Stay Sane, names āself-observationā as one cornerstone of mental health. She says, āā¦the continuing development of a non-judgemental, observing part of ourselves is crucial for our wisdom and sanity.ā (She goes on to list studies demonstrating numerous less predictable health benefits of journal-writing, from stronger liver function to improved immune responses.) Perryās other sanity cornerstones are relationships, new experiences, and the creation of a flexible personal narrativeāall of which, I would say, can be cultivated through journal-writing. Journals allow those of us with sometimes uncontrollable brain chemistry to edit and shore up our memories, to shape and reshape our narratives, and also to express our deep documentary impulses.ā Ā - Padma Viswanathan
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