Bits and Pieces of a Damaged But Not Broken Mind

Fading

You're standing before me yet you've disappeared in every other way.

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Both mental illnesses and neurological disorders can at times screw really badly with  people suffering and those in direct or secondhand exposure. And although seen as present, at least physically, the frame of their mindset can be fragile, seemingly as if it weren't there at all. Because living, and being alive, are two drastically different things. Which means that seeing is not believing, that presence does not equate comprehension, and nor does assumption ring with reality.