“I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel.” — Samantha Schutz Hard time Copy Share Image
“It feels like I have a raging fever, like my insides are melting. This must be what it feels like the moment… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“Most days I go home crying and my dad tells me welcome to the real world.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“I have been telling myself that these feelings are new, but they aren't, I just didn't connect them before” — Samantha Schutz Feelings Copy Share Image
“I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.” — Samantha Schutz Emptiness Copy Share Image
“I feel empty confused hurt numb disoriented mad vulnerable insignificant blurry tired sweaty overwhelmed temporary anxious” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“It's weird to hear this again - to hear how I was perceived by people before they got to know me. Some… — Samantha Schutz Truth Copy Share Image
“When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“She says it's like a switch - a big red PANIC switch - gets flipped in my head and I can't turn… — Samantha Schutz Panic Copy Share Image
“I shut my eyes and see a pocket of darkness. I want to fold myself flat and crisp, slip inside of it… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“I wish i had been there to hold his hand,brush the dark hair away from his cloudy blue eyes..whisper to him over… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am… — Samantha Schutz Unhappy Copy Share Image
“Death is the period at the end of a sentence. Someone gone, but still out there, is an ellipsis...or a question to… — Samantha Schutz Death Copy Share Image
“I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I… — Samantha Schutz Pain Copy Share Image
“Where you are and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without any problems Recognize that… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“Most days it feels like I am watching a movie where the sound isn't in sync, the speed is all wrong. Either… — Samantha Schutz Movie Copy Share Image
“I am jealous of the little kid spinning around near the fountain. What would these people think if I were to start… — Samantha Schutz Greatest accomplishment Copy Share Image
“I crave broken men. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain for the fall semester… — Samantha Schutz Artist Copy Share Image
“I am fearful of romantic dinners, huge crowds, dusk - of normal things- afraid to be loved, the one thing I want… — Samantha Schutz Fear Copy Share Image
“I can't believe no one else can hear I am screaming inside my head. Things are moving too fast. I am going… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to decide what's worse. Someone being gone, but still out there, or someone being gone forever, dead. I think someone… — Samantha Schutz Death Copy Share Image
“Little whit pills for calm and quiet, for sense of a composed face in a broken mirror.” — Samantha Schutz Broken mirror Copy Share Image
“So afraid to go outside, to be happy, to be with other people, because they do not understand what it is like.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“My heart is empty. But my brain - my brain is full. It races with thoughts of what could have been.” — Samantha Schutz Brain Copy Share Image
“I cry and wonder how I'm going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again” — Samantha Schutz Cry Copy Share Image
“Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” — Samantha Schutz Bird Copy Share Image
“I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“The moment I drove away in September I felt like someone was following our car with an eraser, rubbing out my old… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.” — Samantha Schutz Anxiety Copy Share Image