I started writing shortly after OD launched, around 1999 at 11 years old. Of course my original diary was lost in the abyss of teenage angst, but I established this one in 2004...that was a long time ago - it took awhile to get from then to now.
Some things are private, some things were lost when OD went down, some I deleted myself...but this is what remains. $99 for a lifetime subscription as a broke college kid was a solid investment.

Trauma. Depression. Anorexia. Self injury. Anxiety. Promiscuity. Bad decisions. And somehow, a "happily ever after". And now, lots of therapy.

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Pressure

February 11, 2024
Sometimes there are so many thoughts in my head, I feel overwhelmed, and I get that craving to journal - to take the jumble of thoughts and lay them all out, organize them, make sense of them...but when I start to type, they're gone. I quit therapy awhile ago - I got frustrated. Sometimes it…
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