Zaid Ismail
Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com

Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.

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  • Finally a description of me that I can relate to… (Source: http://mini-personality-theories.tumblr.com/post/4229712776)

  • Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway (via aerowrench)

  • For me, the depression sets in when I feel detached and insignificant in the lives of the people that I’ve always been concerned about. Or the people that I really care about, but they never seem to care in return. I’ve tried to be numb, detached, uninterested…it doesn’t work for me because I’m always too…

  • The curse of being me is that I feel too deeply and attach too easily. I care when I’m not supposed to, and expect when I have no right to. 

  • Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing. Anaïs Nin (via decrepito)

  • A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. Kurt Vonnegut (via fyeahderrickjensen)

  • There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway (via definitelydope)

  • no great expectations at all… (Source: http://leilockheart.me)