TW // Trauma, self-harm, mental illness ----- There is a difference between seeing someone actively trying to destroy themselves right in front of your eyes when you are sixteen years old and not knowing what to do about it, or how to stop it, and quite genuinely not being able to understand, and ten years later finding out there is a book that has been written (curiously, ten years ago) on how universal, how known, how binding, albeit difficult, that particular experience