I walked away feeling like I had to carry this burden alone.

Talking mental health with Sam Dylan Finch.
I walked away feeling like I had to carry this burden alone.
It gets tiresome to have to explain our lives and trauma repeatedly just so cisgender people can 'get an education.'
“You defer to me a lot,” he pointed out, laughing. “You’re allowed to have an opinion.”
If trauma is affecting your mental health, you deserve compassion, care, and support. Full stop.
There are better ways for women to advocate for their rights – ways that do not further oppress people outside of the gender binary.
So long as we keep treating borderline as synonymous with abuse, we take a very painful and difficult disorder and deeply stigmatize it.
When society tells us that being cis is the only option, it can take years before we feel secure in ourselves as trans.
Sometimes we forget that there's more to life than just being okay.
I'm not a kid anymore. I'm a crazy, queer adult that survived.
If you truly cared about mentally ill people, you'd advocate for any paths in recovery that make life more livable for us.