You underestimate the importance of mental health.

You underestimate the decisions that could be made when the mind is unstable.

Childhood trauma?
Past bad relationships?

They all have some role to play.

When my friends would compare themselves to me,
Making me believe they were better than me?

Then my family would make me feel as if I wasn't worth enough?

Who was I supposed to turn to in my late teenage years?
Of course the first guy that seemed interested in me.

Even though I was never as pretty as my friends,
Even though I was not worth anything special,
Even though he made me feel the same way my friends and family did.

He told me that he loved me,
He told me that it was because he loved me.

And no one else had ever said that to me.

I wanted to be loved,
To feel it.

So I stayed.

I stayed and put up with how much it hurt,
Because it came from someone that said they loved me.

~The Light That Brings You Darkness
°Angel