"You say your mind takes you to this dark place you fight to escape, but it sounds like you don't want to escape it. That dark place is a world you created in your brain in hopes to keep everything bottled inside. You are lost and alone in a world where you repeatedly punish yourself while feeling like you are being punished in reality as well. You settle into the cruelty of the real world, the world outside of your brain, outside of yourself and it begins to turn into something that you can call pain. But you've felt pain, you know what physical pain feels like and the truth is nothing mental comes close to the indescribable damage you've taken on."