mental-health

  • You want the story.The one dressed in soft apologies and clean escapes.The one with a million lies sewn into a fairytale ending—the one where you’re the misunderstood hero, the tragic soul, the one who meant well. You want the kind of ending where pain wraps itself up in a bow and says it all made…

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  • It Was Always Him

    No one should ask me how to explain it. There are no diagrams for this kind of soul-bond. No instruction manual for the way two spirits recognize each other before memory even kicks in. He was there before. Before the bruises. Before the edges got sharp. Before I learned how to armor up and shut…

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  • No one walks into an art gallery and assumes that every painting is about them. No one strolls through a museum pointing at each brushstroke, each sculpture, each dusty relic behind glass, saying, “This was made for me.” And yet—step into life, and suddenly, everyone becomes the main character of a story they barely understand.…

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  • The Hung Door

    Octavia painted the Hanged Man with fire in her hands, not peace. Not surrender. A brushstroke that fought the canvas like it owed her answers. You’d think the card meant stillness. Suspension. A breath held in the lungs. But this wasn’t that. This was someone who knew they’d done too much damage to rest, someone…

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  • There it sat.A thing, once forged with purpose, now dulled by time and comfort. Not broken. Not ruined. Just… hollow. Not by accident, but by design. Its shape still held, the surface intact, but what echoed inside was nothing. No resonance, no meaning—just a vacuum of self-importance. To the untrained eye, perhaps it was still…

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  • I see you out there.Squinting into lives you don’t understand, like you’re peering through glass that only reflects your own face back at you.You think you’re watching a fall from grace.But you’re really just watching someone climb a mountain you’ve never had the courage to approach. You parade your opinions like a letterman jacket from…

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  • Ode to the Narcissists

    You never loved me. You just wanted to own me. You didn’t fall in love with me.You fell in love with your reflection in my eyes.I was the canvas, you were the brush—but the painting was always your own face.You whispered sonnets soaked in sugar,but every word was a leash.You didn’t want a partner.You wanted…

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  • They said silence was golden, but they never mentioned how heavy it could get. The face on the wall is not screaming. Not quite. It’s the kind of expression that happens just after the scream stops. When the echo folds itself into your ribs, and the birds begin to fly out of your mouth because…

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  • The Mirror

    The mirror in the hallway blinked before you did. It didn’t speak. It didn’t shimmer. It simply waited. You told yourself it was your imagination—the way the air thickened when you passed, the way your reflection lingered a second too long. But you felt it. That hum beneath the surface. That presence watching from behind…

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  • Feel the fire

    Once the Glasses Go On, You Can’t Pretend You’re Blind Some truths come dressed in light. Others wait in the corner, arms folded, watching to see if you’ll finally notice the shape they make in the dark. You thought awakening meant you were done with illusions—but no one ever warned you that clarity comes with…

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