QUOTE : Mental illness <br /><br />People assume you aren’t sick <br />unless they see the sickness on your skin <br />like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. <br /><br />My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s <br />Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? <br />Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? <br />Have you tried being more like me? <br />Have you tried shutting up? <br /><br />Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying, <br />and yes, I am still sick. <br /><br />Sometimes monsters are invisible, and <br />sometimes demons attack you from the inside. <br />Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth <br />does not mean they aren’t ripping through me. <br />Pain does not need to be seen to be felt. <br /><br />Telling me there is no problem <br />won’t solve the problem. <br /><br />This is not how miracles are born. <br />This is not how sickness works.