This is a quote from my therapist and I honestly challenged her when she said it.. I persisted, “But there are times when I’m completely alone. Whose shoulders does it land on besides mine?” and.. “Sometimes it’s my burden to carry even if it’s heavy” or.. “it’s not anyone else’s to carry either” I know I look like I got hit by a bus, but It wasn’t until this recent hospital stay that I actually understood what she was saying. No one is MEANT to carry all of it at once. I woke up and I thought about the fact that the people I loved had to come to terms with possibly losing me once again. Hearing Ruben say that this hospital stay was the “hardest for him to see” made me sad. He used the words “unrecognizable” and “not you.” To be honest when I opened the camera for the first time and looked at myself, I thought the same thing. I’ve been fighting so many battles at once. So many thoughts flooded my brain, but I couldn’t process it all. My brain was literally overwhelmed by pro...