“I have been telling myselfthat these feelings are new,but they aren't,I just didn't connect them before”

“I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the stringsand I have no choice but to comply.”

“But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.”

“I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.”

“I am in a house. I am in one room and my anxiety is in another. It's close. I can feel it. I can go to it. But I won't.”

“Where are you and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without having any problems.Recognize that you are going to get out of this- that you always get out of this, that you are going to live, that you won't go crazy.I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.”

“Most days I go home cryingand my dad tells mewelcome to the real world.”