'One day you’ll be sitting on a sofa and you’ll find yourself laughing; and for a second it won’t hurt, for a second you will just be there, in that moment, and, for a second, life will feel OK.'I first wrote this list when I was nineteen. A manifesto of sorts. I stuck it on my wall and tried to look at it every day when the dark, twisted voices in my head inevitably came calling. I’m a lot more OK now than I was then.
Today I woke up and I could feel my breath in my lungs. I was groggy and tired but not anxious or depressed. I made tea, stroked my cat, sat on the sofa, called a friend, went for a walk, did some emails, did some yoga, had dinner with my family, fell asleep. To sit on a sofa with a mug of tea and a group of friends is perhaps the most huge or exciting thing I could ever dream of. It’s something that at one point in my life I thought I’d never be able to do. It’s something magical.
If this book makes you feel anything, I really hope that it makes you feel like you’re OK just as you are. Some of the things you’ve been though are not OK. Some of the things your brain tells you aren’t OK. We are here to tell you that how you feel is normal, who you are is wonderful. One day you’ll be sitting on a sofa and you’ll find yourself laughing; and for a second it won’t hurt, for a second you will just be there, in that moment, and, for a second, life will feel OK. Hold on for that second. If you don’t do it for you, then do it for me. I promise, I promise: it’s worth it.It’s OK to wake up feeling like the world is about to end.
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