You will want to run away from it. Don’t. Running away will only make it worse when you’ll eventually have to face it. (And you can’t keep running forever).
You will be in a constant search to try to find ways to temporarily fix it. Alcohol, drugs, self-harm. They won’t work. They will make you feel worse; but you will want to keep using them anyway.
After a while, you might make friends with it. Get accustomed to it. (But it will still hurt).
Loneliness will come along with it. Not because you’re necessarily alone, but because you’re engulfed in something that other people cannot understand.
Some days will be better than others.
And on these days, you wonder who you really are, and what you are without it.
You will also be scared. Scared of the moment it will come back again.
You will want to disappear.
And you can, if you want to. But you will be losing all of your possibilities. There are many possibilities. The biggest of all, is that you get another better day, followed by another and another. Don’t lose that possibility. (I almost lost my possibility, but I didn’t, and it came true).
Tag: pain
Resource pdf. Downloadable guide to help parents of children with severe intellectual and/or communication difficulties understand how pain may affect their child.
It does so by explaining possible causes of pain in children with intellectual disability, presenting information about how pain may be shown by children who cannot tell us they are in pain and discussing the effects of untreated pain.
from the amazing heyatleastitsnotcancer.tumblr.com
[picture of a Siamese cat’s head against a triangle-sectioned background with many shades of blue. Top line of text reads: What I’m worried about: Being in agony the rest of my life || Bottom line of text reads: What I’m not worried about: Getting addicted to prescription pain meds]
Honestly? This. I’ll take the chance to escape having NO quality of life whatsoever.
I wish more people understood this.
Holding the Bowl 