Finding Empathy Through A Fire

One of the absolute worst parts of being afflicted with any kind of disability, especially a mental illness, is that it undoubtedly effects every single relationship you are a part of; whether its family, friendship, a professional relationship or anything romantic — it does not discriminate. Instead, it destructs. You have been given no choice but bombshells. There’s a certain amount of savage honesty one must divulge to someone who has enough bandwidth to hold what you hide, your absolutely unpredictable heart, to simply enter into any of type of relationship, in severing hopes that disclosing one’s…