self harm mention

Dear Dad, I know it's been a long while since we've seen each other. You're probably worried sick, thinking I'm dead or worse. Truth be told, for a while I thought I was too. Now though I'm feeling better than I ever have. I have a confession to make. A few, actually. I've been hurting myself...

Jasmine was naked - not in a literal sense but in that she couldn't hide anymore. She sat in this room, white and sterile. Like purgatory. She wondered if this was what death would be like when it finally came for her. The doctors told her that she was showing classic signs of major depression...

Jasmine was at war with herself. She was so caught up in the constant back and forth between her rational, logical brain and the constant nagging feeling that gripped her that she didn't even fully realize where she was walking before she was in the thick of what she knew from her late night...