Our Little Library of Letters
Written to problems, not people – by everyday champions, like you.
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Let me just start by saying postpartum is rough, let alone when you creep in. Hormones and lack of sleep aside, my body is fighting and still healing from an infection. I want to say it doesn’t matter how my baby entered the world, but I would be lying. Although, you know that…
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La prima volta che mi hanno parlato di te avevo dicianove anni. Ho voluto finire con la mia vita dopo di vivere una tristezza che non finiva mai. Il psichiatra ha detto che ero depressa e che mi sono fatta male perche avevo bisogno di piu attenzione...
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I had no idea as to the impact you would have at this transition point in my life. Prior to your arrival, I had already sold my house and private practice, making a conscious decision to leave my home of 41 years and to retire to a new city and state. I had done this only one other time in my life - when I moved away from my family of origin at the age of 26 to settle in an unknown city in Florida…
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Can I write to you if I don’t believe to have contracted you? Like the overwhelming majority of folks – I think – I’m without your diagnosis but still living under your rule. I’m social, and I’m impatient – two rough traits to have at the moment when we’ve been asked to isolate for an undetermined period of time...
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No doubt, you are one powerful creature. You managed to cage an entire country in only a few weeks time! You are a force to be reckoned with & yet, I've been wrestling with this letter to you for weeks.... I have so much to say to you - & about you - it literally hurts!
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Dear Diagnosis, stealing away my hopes and dreams; a necrosis on my everyday things. Should this be a letter to the C-PTSD? Fibromyalgia or Anxiety? Hey maybe it’s to Depression - a soul sucking life draining infection nobody can see; or maybe it’s to D.I.D fractured personalities woven in complexities...
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