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Sometimes feel like I'm being lead around by the Reptile rather than my pre frontal cortex.

This will sound heartless, but really it isn't: suicide will void all your life insurance if you have it. At least, if you're located in the US.

I hope your pain may ease today, if only for a little while.

n.

I see it and know where it comes from. It starts out as damaged self-worth. And it degrades from there. You begin to feel as if you could actually protect other people from you by not being there. Its not a feeling of "good by cruel world..." "you've treated me like shit, so I'm going...

I think I can do this and it will be for a good thing... Tonight, just take me in your arms and let me fall to pieces. Let me cry. Cry it out. You don't have to say a word or utter a sound. Just hold me. Come tomorrow morning, I'll dust myself off and go make us some fresh coffee. I just need to lay...

I've been around. I don't come by often. Don't have the time, really. I dumped my last profile (nenkohai) but made a new one. I find the posts here to be too nihilistic for me. I don't understand the immersion into the victim mentality, either. So, I really have nothing to contribute to this communi...

It's happened a couple times now in the last few months. I dreamt of you. We spoke. I told you that maybe we can talk now. I suppose that something deep inside is saying it might be safe to do that now. Except I walked a little ways away and put my feet in the warm water at the beach. And I felt sad...

Here's the thing: I know you liked the book "50 Shades..." I know you wanted to live-out some of those things. But that was 2 and 1/2 years ago! And you know, since the movie has come out (and I hear it sucks... and I'm glad!), you come unbidden into my mind. I hate that you liked that boo...

It seems you try to make contact about once a year. In anticipation of that, I'm writing here. Knowing what I know about you, you're contacting me to tell me something. It's not about me, but about you. Modus Operandi. Here's some context as to why I've not let you back into my life: "this isn'...