Veronica Sala
Writing 90
Psychological Wounds That Never Heal Imagine a world where the words you speak appear on your skin, would you be more careful about what you say? That old phrase, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me" is not really true. Words may not give people visible bruises like sticks and stones, but words leave psychological wounds that may never heal. The words we are told have a psychological impact on all of us, one negative comment about someone can cloud over every single positive thought someone has ever believed about themselves. Isn’t it strange how with a combination of twenty-six letters you can steal someones heart and captivate their soul. Even stranger how with a different combination of the same twenty-six letters you can make their eyes fill with tears and give them enough pain to last an entire lifetime. What doesn’t kill you doesn’t always make you stronger. The words that people say can leave scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, and leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning wishing you weren’t alive. Sometimes the words people choose to use on you can make you feel absolutely wonderful inside. Not all things said about someone have to be bad. The teenage years are most likely when your self esteem is likely to be impacted because everyone is at such a vulnerable time in their lives. Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you. Because in high school, sometimes being yourself just isn’t good enough. Just because you’re free to say whatever you want does not mean that you should. We are imperfect humans, and on occasion we say things that aren’t nice. We say these things when we are trying to be funny, when following a crowd, when judging too quickly, when stressed, or especially when we are upset. Whether we realize it at the