Sydney Sims

Women are much more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence with 85 percent of domestic abuse victims being women and 15 percent men. Too many women have been held captive by domestic violence — whether through physical abuse, financial abuse, emotional abuse or a combination of all three.

I wanted to talk about it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout about it. But all I could do was whisper. “I’m fine”

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He was a weak man. The sort who needed to crush a woman in order to feel powerful. -John Mark Green

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” -MLK

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3.3million American adults are dealing with or have dealt with depression in a given year. It’s not a joke and most of the time you won’t realize that someone is dealing with it among other mental illnesses. It can be debilitating to the point where there’s days you can barely get out of bed. So be kind to everyone you meet. You never know what someone is going through.

Never underestimate the pain of a person because in all honesty everyone is struggling, some people are better at hiding it than others.

People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions. Being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again.