Recovery

Advice #8

1. You will feel empty and you will want to drag that razor across your wrist and pray for the courage to cut a little deeper but I promise you this is only temporary.

2. Be kind to everyone. They're all struggling through something and so are you. They are just as scared as you are. It's okay.

3. Breathe. It's alright you'll be okay. Just breathe. You're okay. Open your eyes, it will be okay.

4. Your mother warned you about the people who will break your heart but not the ones who will take your breath away with a single glance and shatter your heart with every word. No one will ever prepare you for this.

5. When you find yourself on the bathroom floor at 4 am with blood-stained wrists and shaky hands, pick yourself up, look in the mirror and say "I'm worthy" because you're all you have. In the end, it's just going to be you.

6. "I love you" doesn't mean "I will never leave you". I know she's beautiful and she writes you poetry and her eyes have stars planted in them. I know she kisses you like you're all she has left but you need to let her go. I know you love her. But you don't need her anymore.

7. If you want to kill yourself, wait a day. Go for a jog, talk to someone about the things you love. Everything will be alright. I promise you that.