Down The Rabbit Hole

“Even years later traumatized people often have enormous difficulty telling other people what has happened to them. Their bodies re-experience terror, rage, and helplessness, as well as the impulse to fight or flee, but these feelings are almost impossible to articulate. Trauma by nature drives us to the edge of comprehension, cutting us off from language based on common experience or an imaginable past.”

“If you care about someone, you’d be honest with them about everything no matter what it is.”

“but in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“I’m going to tell you something: Thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”

“And in the end all I learned was how to be strong alone.”

I don't know how many times I survived myself without telling anyone.