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All-you-can-talk Tuesday

Melissa

Come Tuesday, and it’s time to talk. It’s time to fill myself up by, as ironic as it is, getting some of the stuff choking ...

I can’t touch it

Melissa

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a heart implodes deep ...

Then and now

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By: Emunah Harrel The backstory: This brave site member has tried a number of meds years back, before finally finding something that worked. After several ...

This is the hole

Melissa

This is the hole. This formless, nameless, colorless chasm of fog. It’s a longing for something that doesn’t exist. It’s being homesick for a home ...

Beneath the surface

Melissa

We discuss benign topics. I stay on safe ground. Expectations, values, a tiny touch on guilt. We can talk about these things. And then I ...

When Therapy Doesn’t Feel Therapeutic

Melissa

Apparently, I’m here for healing — for you to teach me that I have a place in the world. That there are actually people who ...

Unfilled

Melissa

You open up a well of needA void in which deep yearning breedsSearing pain that makes me chokeAs I inhale burning, acrid smoke A chasm ...

Story of my life

Melissa

What if the fact that I need healing is a myth planted in my brain by the therapy community? What if the fact that I’m ...

After a week

Melissa

Who are you? I wonder. Are you the person I felt so understood by all those months, er, I mean, six days ago? The one ...