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To me, certain letters in a word sound different. It causes this rage inside of me, like I want to punch something. When a person eats, especially someone I'm close to, it causes me to leave the room. I can't stand the chewing, the smacking, the gulping. It makes me angry.
I have lived with this condition for 7 years. It started when I was ten years old.
One day, my family and I were praying, something in my brain snapped. I couldn't stand the sound of anything with the letter "s", or something sounding like the letter "s", like "cement". I would just get angry.
I covered my ears, because they forbid me to leave the room.
I said the words
It's August, the sun is blazing outside; filling the world with brightness, heat and happiness. I gaze out at it from my dingy room; clothes strewn all over the floor, books scattered everywhere half-read picked up and discarded in a fit of apathy that seems to last forever. The sun is mocking me, I'm sure, silently saying "here, look how much fun everyone is having in my rays while you hide inside, you pathetic excuse for a human being." In my heart it rains. Always raining, sometimes drizzle and sometimes storms complete with thunder and lightning, but rain nonetheless.
I pick up another book, read a few pages and then throw it on t