For me, merely existing is extremely painful. It sounds ridiculous but I am sometimes envious of people who have actual problems in their lives which cause them pain. It gives them a valid excuse. I have no outer circumstances which bring me hurt, only inner feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness which in turn affect my outer reality because I am never able to be myself around anyone else. And when I try my absolute hardest to, I’m met with this intense feeling of fear which takes all the pleasure out of anything I do. I hate myself for being like this which only makes it worse. I need some serious help cause I can feel myself coming closer to giving up completely. I’ve been there before, and it’s really not pretty. I just don’t know how to fix myself..

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”