Hello, I am back and fully recovered.
I tried to fall back in- stopped taking meds but I looked down to find that I was no longer spiralling. My feet met solid ground and my mind was not as dark a pit as I remembered it to be. The help actually helped.
I might delete this account but êd Tumblr was been such a huge part of my journey.
Hang in there? Get medicated if you can, don't isolate yourself no matter how close to murder you get.
I'm fat but I'm happy. I have an ass, tummy rolls and the ability to form thoughts again. No more nightmares about binging. No more death breath.
My digestive system will never be the same, nor my body's chemistry- I find myself on the brink of fainting no matter how full and nutritious my day has been.
You deserved better. You deserved a mother who was a mother, you deserved a school that did not turn every day into a trudge through Tartarus. You deserved a world kinder than this one has been to you, but you're not as rotten as you feel you are, nor are you beyond redemption. This is the fact of your beating heart.
Tell a counselor/ therapist/ doctor/ family member/ etc. seek help other than the places you usually seek help.
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ᡣ𐭩 invisible string; texts with paige | p.b
friends to lovers is my favourite trope for paige so it’s only right that my first post for her is exactly that! also my first 'text' post. ahh.
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paige has a crush on you. you're not as oblivious as she thinks.
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Yet another thing I find absolutely wonderful about how Jonathan Stroud wrote Lucy Carlyle is how he betrays her with the narrative.
In The Screaming Staircase, at the start of her story, Lucy gives us an idea of how she wants to be perceived; unaffected, unbothered, unburdened by fear or particularly revelatory emotions. She drops horrifically painful realities about her childhood on us as if she were describing a dull gray rock she found on the ground. She tries very, very hard to school her emotions around Lockwood and George. And if she had been written by anyone else, she might have fallen prey to the "strong independent female character" tar pit of a stereotype.
But then along comes Annabel Ward's ghost.
And the narrative looks at Lucy and says "I know how you wish to present yourself, but that's not who you are."
And Lucy is repeatedly shown to be incredibly Sensitive in so many ways. She is under the influence of the ghost of Annie Ward, but the emotions are still partly Lucy's. And most of the time she has the emotional intelligence to differentiate which feelings are hers and which ones are Annie's, and where they overlap. She chokes up with empathy on multiple occasions in the process of uncovering what happened to Annie Ward. She becomes enflamed with the desire for justice for someone who was murdered decades before she was born. She's shown that by her very nature, her emotions are her strength and not her weakness. Because she has a narrative that loves her and isn't lazy about her. She is the narrator and she tells us who she is, but the narrative shows her and us who she really is.
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