Inside My Head Is Not A Nice Place To Be

Barely surviving and no one notices

[thenewguy1984-deactivated202601]

I live in constant fear than I’m either too much, or not enough.

[kosmogrl]

[veryunwellindividual]

having ocd is so funny bc you’ll be like “oh my god what if i just imagined all my symptoms and i don’t actually have ocd and i’ve been lying to everyone this whole time” and it’s like, dawg. that is The Symptom.

[mricarus]

My default assumption is that I'm always in the way and nobody actually wants to be around me

[youwillleaveme]

maybe im the problem again after all

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

[stresslessnext]

Just because I pretended to handle it well doesn't mean that I did.

[remanence-of-love]

[memeuplift]

[bpderanged]

Sorry for inconveniencing you with my issues. I should have suffered in silence like I'm supposed to.

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "The Melancholy of a Mechagirl," originally published in 2023

[obscurix]

been running on "i'm still breathing so i'm fine" for a little too long.

[daddystinygirll]

the traumatized urge to over explain things so that i'm not misunderstood

[tobringchaos]

being raised by adults who were always angry at you means becoming an adult who’s always angry at yourself

[cicada-swarm]

having OCD is so funny because I can promise you that any given point I am having a complex and heated inner dialogue with myself, and I am losing.

[obscurix]

i feel so left out. like everyone around me knows how to be a human and i don’t.

[daddystinygirll]

“you’re so funny” thanks i would have been lobotomized in the 1940s