This is just a little letter from my depression

[just_here]

I need to say sorry for the hurt I have given you

if I could take it away maybe you'll stay

but I'm the one hurting you

if you could understand I'm lonely too

rain falls from the sky like tears down your face

thunder and lightning struck across the midnight sky as you sleep

I keep you away from your friends and make you self-concept about yourself

but of course,e everything is not about you

you'll always be friends that little white pill can't keep me away for long

every time you forget I'm always there to remind you that you worthless

I am your friend no else will

I am the poltergeist of your mind

I know all about you even things you don't know about yourself

I keep you weak

Love, YOUR DEPRESSION

[Strongheartforever]

Your writing is beautiful. I don’t know if it’s helpful for you though, to hold it so close and personalize it. But I and many here do relate. Negative thoughts are within us all if we sit with them and invite them to talk with us for awhile. It’s much healthier to slam the door in their face. See ya, I’m busy, is a better dismissal. We all get trapped there sometimes, with their foot in the door, and us saying please go away. I’m struggling with it now. I get it. And it’s when we wait and ruminate that things just get worse, like a frog in a pot of boiling water. And the familiarity doesn’t help, it feels safe, like safe misery. Now that I think of it, what you wrote is art. Art is transformation, and some of the best is from deep pain. That could be your therapy! Thank you for sharing it with us. Just don’t get too cozy with negative thoughts.