"I believe now that depression can never be fully grasped by mental health professionals who have not experienced it. Though I can’t claim to know everything about depression, I have a unique and powerful perspective: as a suicide survivor, as a sufferer myself, as a patient, and as a therapist. I know that people who are depressed work very hard at living, but much of their effort is fruitless, a waste of energy. It is as if they are in over their heads and don’t know how to swim; the harder they work, the worse things get."
Richard O’Connor, Undoing Depression (via psychotherapy)
Love Poem, John Frederick Nims
My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases,
At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring,
Whose palms are bulls in china, burs in linen,
And have no cunning with any soft thingExcept all ill-at-ease fidgeting people:
The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The…
(Source: balandaway, via funk-berrys)
Fuck my name in lights, I want it in a blizzard
10 Things I Love About the Summer in London
1. Wearing dresses without tights.
2. Sitting in big parks with wine, good food and good friends.
3. The festivals. And carnival.
4. Sunglasses.
5. Bike rides and reading in forest areas alone, yet feeling utterly content.
6. The late days.
7. Friends. Family.
8. Sunglasses.
9. Walking through grassy areas bare footed.
10. The feeling that anything is possible.
