Friends only
Friends only. Comment to be added, preferably explaining how you found me and why you want to read this journal.
Some things you may want to know about me before you decide:
- I am a self-injurer. I write about it here.
- I have been suicidal. I also write about it here.
- I have a filter for my entries about disordered eating. Please let me know if you wish to be able to see these entries when you comment (if nothing else, as proof that you actually read some of this summary).
- As you have no doubt surmised, this journal is not filled with kitties and flowers and happy things. It's really more of a vent space for me than anything else -- and it can get pretty dim and despairing in my head sometimes.
- I am in therapy, and I take medication for my mental illness. If you're going to post crap in my journal about how either one of these is "wrong" or something ridiculous like that, I don't want you here.
- I write this more for me than for you. I appreciate comments, but I may not always answer comments that you leave. It's nothing personal, I promise.
- I don't comment an awful lot on other people's journals, either. Don't add me if all you want is lots of love in your journal. If you're on my list, chances are pretty good that I'm reading your entries. I didn't create this journal to validate anyone else's existence, though, so do not expect me to comment abundantly.
- I don't mind if you add me, but end up deciding that you are too triggered, upset, disgusted, etc by what you read here and that you need/want to defriend me. It would be nice if you told me before doing it, though, because I also have a tendency to get paranoid, and easily upset. It's also a respect thing. I'd tell YOU why I was defriending you if I did it... although I almost certainly never will unless you do.
- If I think I may know you in real life, I will politely but firmly decline to add you. However, there's a 99% chance that I don't have any idea who you are, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.
With all that said, I am really not a terrible person... actually, I can be quite nice when not in the throes of illness. And I do like new friends.
Some things you may want to know about me before you decide:
- I am a self-injurer. I write about it here.
- I have been suicidal. I also write about it here.
- I have a filter for my entries about disordered eating. Please let me know if you wish to be able to see these entries when you comment (if nothing else, as proof that you actually read some of this summary).
- As you have no doubt surmised, this journal is not filled with kitties and flowers and happy things. It's really more of a vent space for me than anything else -- and it can get pretty dim and despairing in my head sometimes.
- I am in therapy, and I take medication for my mental illness. If you're going to post crap in my journal about how either one of these is "wrong" or something ridiculous like that, I don't want you here.
- I write this more for me than for you. I appreciate comments, but I may not always answer comments that you leave. It's nothing personal, I promise.
- I don't comment an awful lot on other people's journals, either. Don't add me if all you want is lots of love in your journal. If you're on my list, chances are pretty good that I'm reading your entries. I didn't create this journal to validate anyone else's existence, though, so do not expect me to comment abundantly.
- I don't mind if you add me, but end up deciding that you are too triggered, upset, disgusted, etc by what you read here and that you need/want to defriend me. It would be nice if you told me before doing it, though, because I also have a tendency to get paranoid, and easily upset. It's also a respect thing. I'd tell YOU why I was defriending you if I did it... although I almost certainly never will unless you do.
- If I think I may know you in real life, I will politely but firmly decline to add you. However, there's a 99% chance that I don't have any idea who you are, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.
With all that said, I am really not a terrible person... actually, I can be quite nice when not in the throes of illness. And I do like new friends.