Ever since I was a young teen, I wished I could be normal.<\/p>\n
Have a brain without mental illness and anxiety disorders.<\/p>\n
No chemical imbalance.<\/p>\n
Lifetime depression would be absent.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, I don\u2019t want to be me.<\/p>\n
Some days, I\u2019m so tired of being alive.<\/p>\n
Few days, I actually feel all right.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, I tell myself over and over I\u2019m okay.<\/p>\n
Some days, my mind won\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n
Few days, I don\u2019t believe my mind\u2019s insults.<\/p>\n
I take an anti-anxiety pill and breathe out.<\/p>\n
If I was normal, I wouldn\u2019t struggle to hold a job.<\/p>\n
If I was normal, I\u2019d be confident.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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