External affirmation in pursuit of intensity, admiration and reassurance. Not for connection itself but instead to stabilize the fragile internal self structure.
Tag: identity
Interlude Between Versions of Myself
A life lived in fragments. Selves that surface and disappear swiftly. A portrait of survival shaped by splitting, where what looks like mystery is really the choreography of a nervous system trying to stay safe.
the Purgatory of a Broken Heart 