HEY VIOLET

you don’t know why, you’re not alone. you are worthy and valuable and you’re not broken. you are more than a dollar bill, you are more than what you make for a company and you are so much more than your mental illness.

what the experience is like, but even more people subtly recoil because of their preconceived and often incorrect notions about the nature of the illness. i choose to keep opening up about it so that if you’re the one struggling, you know you’re not alone. if you’re hurting and

everything is flowers and sunshine, and those painful pieces are just as integral to healing as the rest of the journey. it’s a very surreal and isolating experience opening up about these things and seeing certain people blossom at your openness because they, too, understand

bringing you down at the same exact time. also surreal thinking about one’s role as an entertainer & performer to provide an honest telling of an experience while also orchestrating an emotional release from those feelings while still grappling with it all real-time!! not

already feel. it’s fucking crazy having a release while going through a depressive episode as well. it feels like your emotions are trying to tear you in two between being genuinely happy and excited that a new song is out and seeing people enjoy it while your mental illness is

on a more serious note though, can’t stress how much having diagnosed major depressive disorder, anxiety and ocd contributed to imposter syndrome. most of the world wants to write you off as lazy when you are in the depths of the symptoms, adding onto the guilt and shame you

the first person to correctly guess exactly what this map is will get the song early in DMs but you gotta keep it 🤫