User blog comment:Nanepul/irrational fears./@comment-25515926-20141009230705/@comment-1988716-20141010000155

If we're getting personal: I'm sorta one of those cases you hear about on TV, the kids who were trapped with abusive families, who the parents try to murder, who calls social services when he's old enough and is turned down due to bureaucratic red tape (and parents lying), who runs away at sixteen to live in poverty in an entirely different continent, who stumbles into an even worse situation and nearly gets killed by psycho rednecks, and who gets a phone call from his dad to come back home and has no choice but to take it or else risk endangering too many people's lives. My story has a happy ending, though, in that when I got back I insisted my family gets therapy, and we've steadily become better. But the mental illnesses keep adding on even when I think I'm okay now.

So no, I don't think any less of you for sharing stuff. This isn't a bad corner of the internet, and I insist on keeping it this way. This is just a place where anyone can be free, as free as they want, to make things that express themselves. And I relish it because it gives me a chance to stop being in denial and indulge in the darkness a little. As a quote in House of Leaves once said, there is no darkness like the inferno of the human mind.