“Dad would call it my Sisyphus toll. Push a boulder up a hill, pretending it’s okay, and come nightfall it - and I - come crashing down. But he forgets the view each time I make it to the top.” JoyHopeHealthDepressionAnxietyMental HealthDisabilityDisabledUnbrokenCycle Book:Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens Source: Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
“But I live here, in this place. And I don’t know how to tell you that. I don’t want you to squirm, or take my hand and say it’s tragic. I don’t want you to roll your eyes as though I’m playing a macho game of one-upmanship: My pain can beat up everyone else’s adolescent pain, so I’ll just be over here in the corner, savoring the depths of my stoic suffering and shedding no more than a single tear when I listen to every single cover of “Hurt” and “Hallelujah” on repeat. No, you can’t help me. Don’t try to help me. Please try to help me.” PainSufferingHealthMental HealthDisabilityHelpDisabledUnbroken Book:Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens Source: Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
“It’d be easy to get lost here, in the spaces where I feel like a ghost. A spirit who couldn’t touch, or be touched. It’d be easy, so easy, to drown. But I keep swimming back towards the shore.” HealthDepressionMental HealthDisabilityDisabledUnbroken Book:Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens Source: Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens