Opinion: I am living proof that not everything on social media is as it seems. My online followers would assume I was having fun, when in truth, I forced myself to be social to distract myself from the disaster occurring within.
I know it seems morbid, but some days I wish there was a way to bury myself and escape from the world. This desire crawls up inside of me — a desire to curl up in a quiet setting where I can filter out the noise of the outside world. Though I’m aware that it’s not quite possible, it has always been one of my secret fantasies.
There’s thousands of words and a traumatic story hidden beneath a girl’s image. She was a young girl, perhaps 15, who was going through one of the most difficult times of her life, but the smile on her face was all that was advertised to precisely 2,046 of her followers. My daily regimen included locking myself in a room and slouching over a tiny glowing screen, which I thought would suffice as my outlet for happiness. The intoxicating images of “beautiful” celebrities changed my perspective on life. I struggled with food the most because I wanted to feel and appear as tiny as possible, almost like I didn’t exist.
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