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firstly, thank you for opening up and being so honest with us - i know that takes a lot and that it probably wasn’t easy to put all of that into words! what you’re feeling is valid, even if your brain keeps trying to tell you it isn’t.
pain doesn’t require a permission slip. you don’t need to come from a “hard life” to feel like things are falling apart. you are human, and what you’re going through right now is heavy and real, no amount of privilege cancels that out. feeling lost, angry, or disconnected doesn’t make you ungrateful or fake. it just means you’re struggling, and that’s ok, you are allowed to struggle.
the self-hatred, the overload of thoughts, the feeling like you’re disconnected from yourself and the world around you, it all sounds exhausting, the fact that you’re aware of it, that you can articulate it like this, shows a lot of depth and strength, even if you don’t feel that way right now.
you’re not a poser. you’re not making this up. you’re not some broken copy of someone else. you are a person who’s hurting and trying to figure it all out, and even if it doesn’t feel like it, that’s a really brave thing to be doing.
please done feel like you have to go through this alone - we are all here for you!! you’re not a burden, you deserve kindness and space to feel what you feel, and even if it’s hard to see now, there’s a future where this fog starts to lift, slowly and quietly.
you’re not an animal. you’re not a failure. you are a person with a mind that’s working against you right now and that’s not your fault.
you’ve got this