“I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? / I’m not too gone am I?”
— Alice Notley, from In the Pines
MAYBE I'M DEFECTIVE
OR MAYBE I'M DUMB
I'M SORRY, SO SORRY
FOR WHAT I'VE DONE
MAYBE I'M BAD NATURED
OR MAYBE I'M YOUNG
I'M SORRY, SO SORRY
FOR WHAT I'VE DONE
The intimacy of “How did you know that?”
“because I know you.”
It’s never okay to lock a headmate away, never. They could be the worst person in the world, you still shouldn’t lock them away. There’s a difference between keeping headmates away from eachother and taking away someone’s privacy, free will and connections. You are abandoning that headmate, you are telling them that they are not worth helping, that they don’t deserve to get better. If talking it out doesn’t work for them there are other options, I’d recommend giving them their own space to speak their mind without threat of mistreatment for it, for starters. If someone really doesn’t want help don’t force it on them, just let them know it’s always an option and leave it at that. -Ange
not mad just outside your house with a gun