Today, my therapist told me to write down my secrets in an envelope and symbolically burn them. My secrets included stories of my rampant sex life, drug use, a suicide attempt, and the overpowering hatred I have for my family. I've managed to misplace the envelope somewhere back home. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my therapist told me to write any negative thoughts that I had on a piece of paper and then set fire to it. When I lit it in the trash can, huge flames broke out and I had to throw the trash can out my window to keep from setting my house on fire. FML
Today, I was writing in a journal as part of my therapy. I jumped and hid it when my boyfriend startled me by coming in. He now swears I must be cheating, that I’m keeping secrets from him and I trust a stranger with my personal thoughts more than I trust him. That’s kinda the point of therapy. FML
Today, my therapist asked me if I’d been journaling as he suggested. I had to tell him that I don’t trust writing down my innermost thoughts anymore, because when I was younger my mom read by diary multiple times and beat me for what I wrote. So did my ex-boyfriend. FML
Today, I found out that my husband read my journal behind my back when he got mad over something I'd written in it. This is the same journal that my therapist told me to keep, to help me get past my trust issues. FML
Today, as a means of getting over my abusive ex, I decided to write his name on a piece of paper and light it on fire. As I lit the paper up, I noticed the marker ink had bled through it. The paper is gone, but his name is forever engraved on my desk. FML
Today, after weeks of therapy for severe depression, my therapist thought it would be helpful to confess my deepest problems to my friends, to prove that it was alright to trust people. I did. They laughed. Hard. FML
Today, my mom read my diary. Then she frantically booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist. FML
Today, I went to therapy. I started talking about my childhood and my life. By the time the session was over my therapist was crying. FML
Today, while I was explaining my troubles to my therapist, he asked me, "And don't you have someone you can tell all that?" FML
Today, my sister admitted to selling pages of my diary to my old boyfriends. FML
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sweet_candy_ 17
You should have burned them right after you wrote them.
Enderspeaker 2
You had me at "rampant sex life"!
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Comments (127)
SirEBC 7
How do you symbolically burn something?
SirEBC 7
Well, that is awesome, but I think "symbolically burn" was a poor word choice if that's what OP intended. I may be alone on that. As for the email thing, I would strongly recommend being extremely cautious when deleting them, or you might just end up being the next OP. Hm. That would make a good story.
krazy_glu3 0
I like to "symbolically burn" paper. my friend told me to try it. I would write down what's bothering me, go burn the strip of paper, and watch the smoke rise up and disappear into the air. it was like my problems were being burned and lifted into the air. as the smoke disappeared, so did my worries. silly, I know. but I also love the smell of burning paper :]
domosumo 0
They will find your letter And read it out loud. You will pray they'll finish But they will keep right oooonnnn..
xlil_miss_emo_x 6
sounds like my life, except replace the "rampant sex life" with " rampant partying life" and that sucks ass dude. I hope you find it, still sealed where you left it :)
Major_General 10
Since the burning was symbolic, shouldn't the writing been too?
Jadian 4
If they find it and confront you, tell them it's a wild beginning to your new, first-person fiction novel you're writing. If they ask why their names are in it, just tell them that they're placeholders until you can come up with original character names. In any case, good luck....
RedPillSucks 33
Damn it. I was going to say this. Beat me to the punch. *oh... Just beat me, please*
supertacowaffle 41
oh shit. good luck
krazy_glu3 0
you're suppose to burn that shit as soon as you're done writing it.. DUH!!
Jimboom 12
Hey now, you sound like fun.. Tell me where you are and I will come help you make some new secrets. :-P
DKjazz 20
Lol'd Run a cross-check of all the women named Elle in Virginia who live with their parents. Then, stalk the people on the list until you find your woman.
chrstygrl06 10
You should really keep a tight grip on something like that, WTF is wrong with you. YDI!
katelynunwin 0
haha. killing me softly.