( I'm sorry if any of you find the photo disturbing or overstimulating. Feel free to scroll down it feels like too much. )
Do you know the worst thing about being sensitive to things around you?
You can't enjoy anything.
The things you loved as a kid, soon become so overwhelming without the right people around.
And things you cried about as a kid, still affect you today.
How would it feel for you to not be able to breathe in a baseball stadium?
How would you feel if you knew you couldn't do certain things with others because even the sheer idea of it makes you so overwhelmed you have to refuse?
This is what it feels like.
But tests, they're horrible. In a quiet room with pencils scratching and people sniffling. The lights are too bright and too dark at the same time. Your clothes feel too tight and yet also too loose. The sound of the air vent gets louder and louder as you focus on it. The coughs and sneezes fill the room.
That's just the being.
Someone tapping their foot suddenly feels like hundreds of boulders are pounding on the ground. The lights seem much brighter now, you feel as though you may become blind. The clothes are practically suffocating you. The air vent is practically sucking away your oxygen. The pencil you're holding feels like it's stabbing your skin. The room feels so cold, that you could practically freeze to death. You try to catch your breath but in the end...
its
all
too
much.
What next? You're fainting in the classroom? We can't have that now, can we...
See...
it's not so easy..
When everything
is
just
too
much
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Mental Illness Poems
PoetryAs a mental illness survivor. I decided to write poems about whats it's like to have a mental illness. If you are struggling please know you're not alone. You don't deserve to live like that. You can beat it even if it doesn't go away. I believe in...
