The strangest thing about fighting the darkness is it's the only thing that loves me. I'm pushing away the only thing that wants to take my pain away and make me feel better.
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Posted by GabeMondragon - October 13th, 2020
The strangest thing about fighting the darkness is it's the only thing that loves me. I'm pushing away the only thing that wants to take my pain away and make me feel better.
2 professors now have emailed me about my animation, excited and asking when it will be completed, even though it isn't an assignment for any of my classes anymore. This could be a vital step towards success, career, money from my art. Because I didn't succumb to the darkness, I stayed productive this whole time, forcing myself to fight through the mental shit, like a boxer forcing himself to fight through the pain.
GabeMondragon
A crazy thing about these mental illness episodes is how they creep up on you. You don't even notice until you're deep in it. Or perhaps I refused to acknowledge or anticipate what was happening until it was too late, because I wanted so desperately to believe I was normal and there was nothing wrong with me.