Let me tell you a story about a 17 year old girl.
is has social anxiety. And is very insecure about the way she looks. Big nose, acne, glasses, curly / frizzy hair. She has to hide her imperfections. Spending hours applying makeup, straightening her hair, and not wearing her glasses. She makes sure she wearing nice clothes. And she pretends to be happy. But what people don’t know is that she cries herself to sleep. She hates herself. She hides because she doesn’t feel safe anymore. She’s scared of society. She’s scared of judgement. She’s not gonna make it anywhere in life. She’s had her heart broken by people she thought would never hurt her. It puts her into depression. So she starts to go on a teen social site. She edits her pictures to make her feel pretty. She acts like there’s nothing wrong g. She makes friends. She gets complimented on. She feels pretty. She feels loved. But when she goes back to real life, she realizes nothing changed. She still looks at herself as an ugly no good dumb b**** who doesn’t deserve nothing in life but the worse. People don’t know that she’s suffering. She thinks people are always going to make fun of her. She thinks nobody will ever love her.and if they say they do, they’re just saying that because they want something. Not because they mean it. She feels defeated.
she feels like she has no one.
She knows she has no one.
and she will never be okay. No matter how many times she tries to make herself happy.