I’ve been staring at this painting for a long time. It’s incredibly haunting and terrifying to me, but it reminds me of something that really disturbed me about the remake of Amityville, disturbing because it played upon something incredibly honest and powerful. When the people leave and the ghost of that little girl cries, it’s haunting and sad, how lonely and ugly she feels, trapped in a dark world that people don’t understand, that people are afraid of, and how rageful it makes her feel to be in her situation. I think mental illness is like that. Because they need so badly to be loved and understood, but it’s like interacting with a ghost…there are two different planes being operated on. I believe it’s the loneliness, that raining feeling that comes from the inside, that tinges the existences of those entrapped by the forces between where genius and madness meet.

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Read their stories as well. Amazing things. Abuse is a cycle that causes incredible to victims as well as affecting the communities around them. It’s a vicious cycle that takes away a person’s inner light and denies the people around them the full potential of what he or she has to give. It takes a lot of strength and courage to overcome abuse, and requires a great deal of compassion and nurturing from those whom the survivors encounter.

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