I am not a toolbox
You can't just throw tools at me
You can't just throw skills at me
You can't just throw distractions at me
I am not a disease
You can't just reduce me to my symptoms
You can't just ask me questions from a checklist
You can't just fix me with pills
I am not a case study from your textbook,
I am not a series of chemical imbalances
I am not non-compliant, resistant, regressing
I am not"a failure in therapy"
I am a human in distress;
I am a human in an emotional crisis due to traumas since childhood;
I am a human struggling to live in this world because people in my life, professionals included
have treated me in a way that
made me feel worthless and ashamed for existing.
But first and foremost,
I am human