Elizabeth Bestow
freelance writer of bits and bobs.
Latest Posts
8 Little Things You Need To Remember When It Feels Like Your Anxiety Is Crushing You
“It will be okay.” Repeat this to yourself, over and over again, until it is okay.
8 Things People Don’t Realize You’re Doing Because You Struggle With Body Dysmorphia
There are only a selective few people I feel able to eat in front of. I eat in front of my boyfriend, and that’s pretty much it.
Dispatches From My Depression
The desire to do anything has gone. Only the numbness remains; a blank, empty sheet of paper, a black hole, an abyss of despair.
Read This If You’ve Been Emotionally Abandoned
When you lose a close friend, when someone ghosts you and just disappears, it can feel like grief. It’s so abrupt, the change. It is more than just missing your close friend, it is a deep sense that something isn’t right, that some long-held routine or ritual has been disrupted, lost.
A Story About Forgetting What Your Voice Sounds Like
The voice was belittled. It was made small and delicate; it was modeled after its owner’s body.
