So this morning I was checking Facebook and a I saw a post that really pissed me off. It was about depression and how if you're having issues with it you should just make changes like exercising and eating better and socializing more. And I thought to myself; comment on it. Stick up for the people who suffer. Show them that most don't treat mental illnesses like they're important. So I did, and I...

When I was fifteen I met the man I thought was the love of my life. And hell, maybe he is, because now I don't want to fall in love again. Essentially, he promised me the world on a string, siting on a rainbow, but recently he's broken every single promise. My husband is a good man. He has to be, to have put up with me for so long. But it's finally worn him down. And I don't suppose I can blame...

I've spent a lot of time thinking over the years. About all kinds of things. Big things, little things, the machinations of the universe even. But tonight, there is something very hard that I'm thinking about. Tonight I'm thinking of how many things are my fault. And it's not even necessarily the fact that it's my fault, but maybe that it's the fault of my illness. Mental illnesses are a silent...

I suppose I'm passionate about a great many things. I love music. There is something so beautiful in the way it can touch people. A million different people can listen to the same song and each get different things out of it. For me, music helps me feel a little less alone. It makes me feel like there's someone out there who doesn't really know me, but they understand me. I also really love to...

I don't know if there's a quality that I admire about myself. I have always felt rather like a perpetual fuck up, because it seems like no matter what I do, it's wrong. But I know what I want to improve on. It took me eight long years to realize just how badly I suffered from depression. For a long time, I thought I'd grown out of it or gotten over it, but I realized recently that I haven't, and...

The answer to this question comes in many parts. I honestly think it depends on what I'm writing. If I'm writing poetry my inspiration comes from what's going on in my life, from my emotions. When I take up a pen and I put it to paper the words just seem to flow out of me like they're coming from an external source. Usually if I'm writing fan fiction I get inspired by the work that the person I'm...

Hi all! I don't know how many people will really read this but I figured it would be a good idea to write it. I enjoy attempting to participate in Mibba's challenges, it makes me feel like I belong in this community again. For those of you that don't know me, I've been a member of this site since 2006! Wow, nine full years, it seems kind of crazy to me that it's been that long. Originally when I...