Hypervigilance can cause fatigue guys. PTSD can cause fatigue, anxiety and depression can cause fatigue, Bipolar can cause fatigue, any and all mental illnesses can.
Please understand if youre mentally ill and physically or emotionally fatigued, that is not you being lazy! It is your body and brain being tired of fighting your illness! You are tired because youve been fighting.
This struggle you are going through is real, please do not let yourself or anyone invalidate you further by saying youre lazy.
God, were you watching? Watching him put his evil inside of me? Fingers of death ran up my thigh, I closed my eyes and prayed for my life. Now when I close my eyes, all I see is his dirty face. Do you know what he did? Do you know how I ache? The space between my thighs no longer feels safe. I close my eyes and I see his face, the face of a man who made sure I knew the feeling of rape. God, am I grieving too loud? Did your hear me scream? Did you hear me shout? I was crying for help, moments before he covered my mouth. God, will you forgive me for taking my life? Cause I don’t forgive you for standing by, watching him force this evil inside. God, are you listening now? The nurses that night, held me in their arms while I cried, my mother did the same when I was 5. They were the real heros that night. My parents sat in the waiting room for hours, while I cried, trying to get the confidence to wash the dirtiness between my thighs. God, do you even care? I’m removing dirt and branches from my hair, my mothers trying to be strong so I wipe her tears. This pain, it isn’t right, every girl I know has a story like mine, most of them now, carry a knife. God, do you know what it’s like? For a man to force his way between your thighs? For a man to hold you down, to pray for death instead of carrying on your life? God, do you understand the words I am saying now? I’ve been to hell and I’m calling you out, you won’t save the woman who cried out loud or even the woman who made no sound.
at 11, playing by the ocean, slipping on rocks & water surrounds me, the seaweed covers me // i think this is it // but you pull me out. i didn’t thank you.
at 13, sadness overwhelmed me, i prayed that night to a god i don’t believe in to let me die & when the morning came i swore next time ill beg.
at 16, we went camping, i forgot what it felt like to be sober // we got in the car & i couldn’t tell if the car was spinning out of control or just me & as the cliff came closer I closed my eyes and prayed but not for survival.
at 17, lying unconscious on a street corner, you took my body & left me for dead // i could hear the sirens, see the red and blue lights // i wish i never woke up.
at 21, alone in my room, in a pool of my own blood & a suicide note in my pocket, wishing i was loved // it wasn’t enough, maybe next time.
at 22, I drank the whole bottle, I swallowed all the pills & when I lay my head on the pillow I finally found peace // a day later I opened my eyes only to realise it was just another close call.
Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something
Just a few more. This is a big trend.
Things I learned from the comments
She’s a patron saint of rape and abuse victims
She took a vow a chastity
A low born guy demanded her to be with him and she turned him down
For this she was imprisoned and tortured. This is how she lost her breasts (details not required)
She was repeatedly raped.
The Catholic Church regards her as a virgin for her peity despite the rape. (No matter your views on virginity this is a pretty interesting statement)
She was sentenced to death to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake
In her holiday people make titty cupcakes
I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.
other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???
every time this post comes around, my favorite part is the “I know it’s the Mets” qualifier at the beginning lmao like how baseball that this zillion note posts starts with “sorry for putting this hellteam on your dash, bUT”
this is literally TOO true, and you have to talk about these things and work through them with your partner before it ends up ruining the relationship.
I literally couldn’t care less if we lose good bands and good movies if it means outing sexual predators. Let it all fall apart if that’s what it takes to stop allowing these disgusting people safe places to abuse their power. Fuck your favorite movies, fuck your favorite tv shows, fuck your favorite albums. Stop defending bad people because they make good content.