Karl Marx once said, "The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. ". Though I'm not sure I agree with that specific statement, I do agree that if you want to stop suffering mentally then you have to distract yourself from what's going on. My name is Jayla by the way. I have always had to distract myself from the pain I was going through mentally. Once I was going through the worst kind of mental pain. I felt like I was going insane and that I was never going to see my family again. I was going crazy. I couldn't seem to find my way out. I was stuck in a nightmare that kept repeating itself. I would cry every night in bed. I felt alone and scared. I had no one to hold me or love me. I was in a dark place. I soon began writing down my feelings in a journal. Let me say, it helped in a million ways. Because of that I was able to go to therapy and do other things to distract myself. Then, it seemed like that suffering was no longer there. Like it had disappeared.

Like magic.

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Prompt by goldstarawards