My possesion is depression Depression making me unable to move get up, well get dressed then! so obsessed with no obsession overwhelmed by nothing but it's truly a mountain so dramatic I
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I was thinking about Nathan when it happened. It was January 2018. I sat in a small room in my company's
Thanks to Jodie G. for submitting this piece. So, I woke up today (my usual cheerful self in the mornings🥴), letting
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Tennessee Williams, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, Berryman… Six giants of American literature – and all addicted to alcohol.
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How does she coax a rose from a stone? Cold flat surface and non-dimensional plane. Heavy burden of stone, lifeless, exhausted, no
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I was never high enough. My body defied odds of survival. A regular EF5 tornado. He was my treatment center roommate
