"Breathe Me"
Sally finds Sarah lying on the couch. It’s been a few days since Sally has heard from Sarah and is checking up on her, concerned.
Sarah: Sally, what are you doing here?
Sally: Hi Sarah, I texted you 5 times in the last three days and you never responded. Your roommate let me in. Everything okay?
Sarah: “I have done it again.”
Sally: Oh Sarah.
Sarah: (cuts Sally off) I do not need you to feel sorry for me.
Sally: Of course not! Help me understand what it is that happened again.
Sarah: “I have been here many times before.” (pauses) “Hurt myself again today,” yesterday, a week ago. I can’t help it. It feels like I can’t fight it.
Sally: Did something in particular happen?
Sarah: “The worst part is there’s no one else to blame.” It’s just me doing something stupid.
Sally: You can’t blame yourself. I’m here, Kelly is here, you have support.
Sarah: The best thing is to “be my friend.”
Sally grabs a blanket from the end of the couch and places it on Sarah, sitting down.
Sally: (singing) “Be my friend / Hold me, wrap me up / Unfold me / I am small and needy”
Sarah: You’re not as bad as you think! I have my little chihuahua to be needy. Here, hopefully this will “warm [you] up.”
Sally: …breathe deep…. In….. and out…. “and breathe me.”
Sarah: It’s all you need. Just keep breathing. It’s like they say, tomorrow is a new day and it’s just about getting through this one.
Sally: I know. It’s so hard though. It feels like “I have lost myself again.” That I have “lost myself and I am nowhere to be found.” It’s such a strange feeling because half of my brain knows that this is absolutely ridiculous and that I need to get up and walk around, go outside, call you up.
Sarah: And the other half?
Sally: “Yeah” the other half… “I think that I might break.” That I “lost myself”…”again” and continually will lose myself to a point that “I feel unsafe” being alone, but don’t want anyone else around.
Sarah: Well I am here for you. It sounds like you’re dealing with something heavy. Promise me you’ll at least answer my texts when you’re feeling like this. You can answer normally when you’re feeling good and text ‘breathing’ when you are less inclined to talk.
Sally: Okay, deal.
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