Continued from Part 4 I remember when We used to drive Anywhere but here As long as we’d forget our lives We were so young and confusedthat we didn’t know To laugh or cry Those nights were ours They will live and never die Together we’d stand forever…- Skillet, Those Nights The first week ofContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 5: This is your life”
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Emotional Hypothermia, Part 4: October
Continued from Part 3 You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness Like resignation to the end, always the end…- Gotye, Somebody I Used To Know October, it’s not your fault. But I really don’t like you anymore. Depression hits me hardest in October and January. Summer’s buzz fades, and my dreams seemContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 4: October”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster
Continued from Part 2 Content note: self-harm In a group session summer before last with my counselor and my parents, my mom mentioned the time my sister asked her why I was so logical and scientific when one of our dogs was being euthanized in his old age. “How could Eleanor be so cold?” she’dContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel
Continued from Part 1 “We’re talking about anger here, Fraser, a human emotion.Are you human? Because if you are, human beings feel things, okay?They feel anger, they feel love, they feel lust and fear, and sometimes,and I know you don’t want to hear this, sometimes they even cry.”- Ray, Due South (2.17), “Red, White, orContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 2: Dare You To Feel”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful
I lie here lifelessIn this cocoonShedding my skin cause I’m ready toI wanna break outI found a way outI don’t believe that it’s gotta be this wayThe worst is the waitingIn this womb I’m suffocating Feel your presence filling up my lungs with oxygenI take you inI’ve diedRebirthing nowI wanna live for love wanna live forContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful”
Eleanor Skelton 