The Effects of Mental Health

The trousers that once barely fit now were baggy and hung from her waist she hides her wrists with the sleeves of her hoodie hoping no one saw as she tried to reach the book on the high shelves of the library. She looked at the mirror that hung on her wall, seeing a completely different person than what we saw. Her body was big and her face was even bigger than the rest but what we saw was just a fragile girl, She’d shake her head when her mum asked if she was hungry, hoping she would believe her The girls at school laughed, calling her an attention seeker and a freak and the boys were no different, tripping her up in the halls and calling her a ****. She’d cling onto the toilet seat as she puked up the food that once filled her with happiness She was alone but would always tell her mum that she was going to hang out with ‘her friends’ but all she did was walk alone in the forest, wiping the tears from her eyes. She’d put a hand through her hair and her stomach would drop as a chunk of hair would drop to the floor. She usually sat in the shower, crying her eyes out and clinging to blade as the clear water turned to red, She closed her eyes wishing life was easier just once that the hunger would stop and her arms would stop bleeding 16/02/2020