feeling like you’ll always be stuck in your own head forcing yourself to act normal when you feel anything but waking up exhausted no matter how much you sleep seeing people move on without you and wondering if they even noticed feeling guilty for being sad when you “should” be happy thinking no one would understand, so you don’t even try to explain not knowing if you actually want help or if you just want to disappear for a while the fear that maybe this is just who you are now