8 Quotes by Ruby Elliot

My brain, having been suspended in a state of hyper-vigilance for such a long time, just packed in and said 'No more, your job now is to lie on the sofa incredibly still and just work on evaporating, you useless towel'. And so I did.

Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be.

A misconception that really pisses me off is that therapy is a hippy-dippy cop out for those who are too weak to deal with their problems. [...] It takes enormous amounts of mental effort to arrive at a place where you can ask for help, and even more to believe your problems are valid and warrant being taken seriously by a third party.

I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

...this was as if an actual steamroller driven by a crazy grinning idiot had trundled through the door and flattened my entire life into a sad pancake of nothingness.

Why would I want to take baby steps? Babies are shit at walking - think about it. To move forward I'll be taking jazzy little lizard steps.

It's unrealistic to expect myself to go from "I loathe myself beyond words" to "I love and value me 'cuz I'm worth it *hair swish*" overnight. I can take jazzy little lizard steps toward compassion at my own pace.