Stressed, but in a good way? Irl high school friends are visiting me for the first time in months this week from university spring break, and I'm half considering confiding in one of them about my SA. Really scared they might be overwhelmed, and I really don't want to lose them, but I genuinely need to get this off my chest IRL. I lost friends before by being too honest with my thoughts, but I'm willing to open up again. If I lose them, well, I guess I'll look back on methods to CTB again.
This feeling of keeping a burden haunting me on the daily really is affecting me, otherwise I'd keep it a secret or endlessly vent the same thing over and over here on SaSu,
I've been practicing for days and days and my brain would force me to stop when I try to go into details. Are my rehearsals too dramatic to be attention seeking? Not dramatic enough to be another kind of attention seeker? Should I say a lot or a little? If I say a lot am I writing a novel? My head hurts thinking about it consciously and I instantly feel like curling up, hiding at the thought that can't escape my head, but if I do that to my friend I might hurt her.
If I don't say it, well, I guess she's still my friend in the end. Am I doing this friendship well? I rarely vent to her, but she's been more compassionate and told me I can tell her anything. I don't want to say I want to "test" it, but I also just want someone IRL to see me in the flesh saying this. "I was SA'd, and even after a decade it's hurting me and I want to be heard".