Neto Obi

You can be surrounded by people and still feel like no one knows what’s happening in your head. You smile. You reply. You keep the conversation going. Meanwhile your brain is stuck on something you said hours ago, replaying it over and over. You open the chat again just to check. Close it. Open it. Not because you want to because the uncertainty feels heavier than the checking. Depression can look like doing everything while feeling nothing. Anxiety can look like scanning every silence for proof something’s wrong. Loneliness sits in the gap between how functional you look and how heavy you actually feel. Some nights you put the phone face down because your mind is already using it against you. Not every thought is a fact.