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A safe place to express myself

ArizonaSenior Contributor

A safe place to express myself

I thought, coming here

I could find people

I could connect with

People I could relate to

People like me

But there's no one here like that

There's no one here like me

There was one person

But he left

I thought we could be friends

But things got weird

I still don't understand

What happened

I blame myself

Then things got even weirder

With that person

Who turned out to be a guy

He had his own agenda

There was nowhere else

For me to go

After that

So now I'm all alone

And I have no one

There's nowhere I can go

To express myself

To be myself

To feel safe

It's not okay

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In response to: A safe place to express myself

ArizonaSenior Contributor

Re: A safe place to express myself

My therapist is supposed to be calling me now. I don't feel like talking to her. I don't feel like talking to anyone. I'm tired and depressed and I don't have the energy to make dinner. I just want to go to sleep. If she doesn't call me by 8pm I'm going to sleep.

In response to: Re: A safe place to express myself

ArizonaSenior Contributor

Re: A safe place to express myself

I have just woken up in a terrible state of anxiety. I can feel the trauma in my body, mostly in my legs. I'm terrified and exhausted.

I'm going to drink some water and make myself a cup of tea.

In response to: Re: A safe place to express myself

ArizonaSenior Contributor

Re: A safe place to express myself

I have changed my mind. I wrote a poem but it took me into the past and I don't want to be there. It is fine to acknowledge sad feelings from the past but I don't want to stay there.

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