In your place of stillness lies a friend, a friend who is sad you suffer but is thankful for your deep understanding.” She writes things like, “Remember in your anxiety that you are not alone. She is the type of person who can send me texts that fill my heart and make me want to face all of the tomorrows. She is the type of person who I can call and I can text and I can tell my deep ugly truth to. She has had to dig deep and figure out the answers for herself. My friend was the perfect person to get my tattoo with because she has been asked these questions too.
Everybody did and eventually it turned into a worldwide movement of tattoos. She went on social media and asked anybody who suffered with mental illness to draw a semicolon on their wrist and show it to the world. It is a beautiful project that was first started by a woman named Amy who suffered from depression.
The project believes that we can equip every person with the right tools to face the next day and the next day and the next. All of us can raise public awareness and educate communities. Project Semicolon was started to inspire people to tell their story. The question is not as simple as you think. Just to erase myself in the parts of the year when I was not fully present and when I was not fully myself, when the very worst part of me came forward. I sometimes felt like I wanted to a erase myself a little bit. Did I want to sleep through all the anxiety and anger and the confusion? Did I want to crawl into my bed and sleep and possibly never wake up? Yes. But did I want to disappear sometimes when the pain was too much? Yeah. But if I’m really honest and I dig deep, I don’t know if that’s fully true. I’ve been asked that question several times and my answer was always a quick no-no, I am not a harm to myself or others. If you’ve ever been asked the question “Are you a harm to yourself or others?” you would understand why The Project Semicolon needs to exist. The semicolon was inspired by the Project Semicolon, a suicide prevention project. Our tattoos say, “be st ll.” The symbol means so much to me. It speaks of a journey through and with bipolar. We needed to be ready to share this part of our story with any who would ask. We needed to be ready to share our history without shame. We needed to be ready to share our journey, a part of ourselves we once held dear and didn’t share with a lot of people. We had waited a few years to get this tattoo because we needed to be ready. She was the perfect person because she was my sister in very many things, but most importantly she was my sister-in-mental-illness. She was the perfect person to get this daring tattoo with. Several months ago I got a tattoo with my very best friend.
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