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Comma

Tongue too big for my mouth

I sit on the bed, listless

Staring into nothing

Unmoving

Except for when I cough

Loud things that turn me into a comma

And make me cry out

It's Not an Eating Disorder

I don’t eat much.

I never have.

Especially when I’m so anxious 

My stomach turns at the mere scent of food.

 

“It’s not an eating disorder,”

I try to explain.

People stress eat.

They eat ‘til they’re bursting.

‘Til they’ve doubled in size.

That’s disordered eating

Not an eating disorder.

 

It’s just that I’m the opposite.

My appetite leaves me,

Leaves me hollow like a tomb.

I know I should eat

But my stomach rebels.

It’s hard to eat

When even a delicacy is tasteless.

 

Sometimes I throw it all up

Even if I choke it down.

 

“It’s not an eating disorder.”

Because it’s not.

It’s “disordered eating caused by 

severe anxiety.”

But people don’t believe me

When I’ve lost ten pounds in two weeks

And my collar bones jut out like mountains.

My Room

I want to saw my skull open

And pull out my brain

Rearrange the nerve signals and blood vessels

So they won't scream when the weather changes

I'll put it back

Exposed and vulnerable

Covered in my own blood

And maybe

I won't

Have to hide

In my room

Here is a Grounding Technique

Here is a grounding technique

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5 things I can see:

The lights blinding

The computer screen burning

The people like mannequins

The colors exploding

The hands trembling

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4 things I can feel:

The tag on my shirt stabbing

The shoes on my feet crushing

The earrings on my neck scraping

The air on my arms scratching

 

i am at the store

all the sensations too much

my mind escapes the chaos

while my body is violently trapped

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3 things I can hear:

The loudquiet drone of music on the speakers

The murmurshouts of people

The air conditioning screaming

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2 things I can smell:

The disinfectant, cutting and nauseating

The stale air suffocating

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1 thing I can taste:

Bile, sour sharp

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