ithmussweater
IthmusSweater
ithmussweater

Also, in the absence of books to give all of you that address your own insecurities and terrible auto replay brain messages and the scars you’ve had to heal on your own, I will tell you two things I told both of them (and an extra):

It was a loooong time ago (I’m early-old) but I’ll see what I can dig up and reply here. :)

Many of the most successful, self-possessed, vibrant, independent women in my life struggle mightily with depression and anxiety, and go between wanting to put it all out there — listen, if I can live through this, so can you — and wanting to keep it all hidden, because showing weakness will ruin her capacity to be a

al·le·vi·ate / əˈlēvēˌāt/ verb / make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe. Got it. So:

There were elderly people standing there doing nothing but standing. Do you think they can leap into the air or sprint away from a moving vehicle? Go blame the victims on Reddit, troll.