Bright Lanterns

Tag: Trauma

  • Therapy

    I have a love/hate relationship with therapy. Mostly, because all of the therapists that I’ve actually connected with have left. I don’t do well when people leave. Why open up to someone when they’re just going to leave? I know that’s fear of abandonment talking, but it feels like a valid point in my head.…

  • Hazbin Hotel: A Beautiful Illustration of Redemption in an Otherwise Raunchy Adult Comedy

    I don’t watch too many adult animated shows, mostly because I find their storylines tend to prioritize profanity and sexual innuendos over a genuine plot. I can’t be too critical because obviously those shows have a lot of advantages to using animation for comedic purposes than live action and I won’t deny that most of…

  • Empathic Pain

    Why do pEople hurt other people? I mean, sometimes we unintentionally hurt others, but why do some people choose to hurt someone else on purpose? I don’t understand. What do they gain out of it? They just go through life doing what they want without a care in the world at the expense of someone…

  • BPD

    After years of wondering what was wrong with me, someone finally told me. Borderline Personality Disorder. Doctors and therapists mentioned it over the years, but it was only just recently that a mental health professional actually diagnosed it. She told me the symptoms and I had almost all of them. I thought I would find…