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I'm staring at a blank canvas again. …
This woman, she knelt down, or tried to, she was a little unsteady, and she was trying to point at the broken glass, trying to get someone’s attention. …
I just... …
And grief, I guess. …
The cognitive dissonance of it… it's like a micro-aggression, you know? …
But it was just… quiet. …
My sister, bless her diligent heart, was the primary caregiver, the one who bore the brunt of the daily decline. …
stands there and smiles, and it's like a disassociation or something a total emotional blank but NOBODY seems to notice and I don't know what to do about it. …
I saw this thing on insta like a couple days ago and it made me feel SO bad but I have to get it out like it's killing me and it was just a post about like how people get older and nobody cares what… …
I’m stuck in this strange orbit, you know? …
*furious*? …
You know when you see everyone else doing their thing, like they have it all figured out, and you’re just… watching? …
And I almost felt… peaceful? …
This is stupid but you know that feeling when the air in your apartment just… sits there, heavy and still, and it presses in on you, and it’s not exactly quiet but it’s an emptiness that echoes… …
This feeling of being stuck. …
Like a big empty pit where my insides used to be. …
My sleep tracker, a meticulously calibrated device I bought after reading that article in *The Lancet* about sleep hygiene and cognitive function, showed a perfect graph: deep sleep, REM cycles, no… …
And "me" feels terribly, terribly empty. …
48 and DIVORCED and I saw their group chat, my old college friends from way back, so vibrant and funny and full of life but I'm never invited, never, and I wonder what I did, every single day, every… …
The orthopedist, he called it degenerative joint disease, like it was some fancy diagnosis, but what it boils down to is bone on bone, right? …