Trigger Warning: Description of PTSD flashback. Many people will treat themselves to a movie or television to relax and let their mind go. This is a normal every day experience for many, but not for me. When I was seventeen, … Continue reading
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I Am Struggling But I Am A Person
I am one of millions. I am a part of a group of people who are numerous, widely functional, and important to society. I have a mental illness. My particular illness is depression. Now before you a.) assume I’m a … Continue reading
Being Asian and Driving…
This isn’t so much a story, but a mentality. It’s an account of how I, like many others, have to be aware of racist stereotypes in our everyday lives. It’s a minor example, but it’s a small instance of how … Continue reading
I Have Forgotten How To Sleep
I have forgotten how to sleep. I have forgotten how to sleep, not in the wide-eyed, red-rimmed way of insomniacs and new mothers, but in the way of an anthropologist studying an ancient culture or a lost ritual. I watch … Continue reading
Walking Home Alone (Part 2)
Trigger Warning: Description of violent attacks I am a woman in my mid/late twenties and I consider myself very lucky: I have only been physically attacked twice in my life. Once when I was eleven walking home from school, and … Continue reading
Walking Home Alone (Part 1)
Trigger Warning: Description of violent attacks I am a woman in my mid/late twenties and I consider myself very lucky: I have only been physically attacked twice in my life. Once when I was eleven walking home from school, and … Continue reading