I’m so sad that Chester Bennington, who helped so many people around the world like me make it through the dark, couldn’t find that light for himself.
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My seventeen year old self would walk right past me on the street and not recognize me, and sometimes I wonder if I ever was that beautiful, sunny person.
I think I accidentally stepped into something and now I can’t go back. Somehow documenting this is the only thing that’s helping to quell..
A few personal thoughts about the general Nigerian response to hearing about my rape.
Getting my IUD put in in America was such a huge contrast with my numerous frustrating attempts to get some sort of semi-permanent birth control in Nigeria.
To anything or anyone that’s going to stress me out, or make me feel bad about myself, or add to my anxiety: Thanks but no thanks.
The abridged account of how Mustapha Audu, with his friends and brothers, raped, abused, and tormented me, and almost destroyed my life.
Besides struggling with constant suicidal thoughts, I’ve suffered from utter apathy for little over a year now. Nothing excites me anymore, nothing makes me happy anymore. Just when I thought I was at my darkest moment, I met someone on Twitter and fell in love.
Everyone always imagines death attended by panic.
The realisation that you’re going to die, the horror, the fear, the sheer panic.
All I could feel while dying, was annoyed.
Having an eating disorder in Nigeria is really to struggle in silence. Bulimia is after all, not a disease of the stomach, but of the mind, and Nigerians are none too kind to people with mental disorders.
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You are VICTORIOUS! I pray for additional Grace & strength to overcome whatever is remaining of those dark days. Remain strong.
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