The crazy lady in your head

 i'm reading "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on love and life by Dear Sugar" by Cheryl Strayed. I just read this...and had to post it....

you see, i know i have a crazy lady in my head. There have been times when i've said to friends, "I know what i'm about to say is irrational. I know it isn't true. I know it's crazy. I know it...but i can't quite convince myself, so i need to say it out loud, and you'll laugh and I can confirm that it's the crazy lady in my head and move on"

here's what "dear sugar" had to say...

"There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone. Most of us have an invisible inner terrible someone who says all sorts of nutty stuff that has no basis in truth.

Sometimes when i'm all pretzeled up inside and my own crazy lady is nattering on, I'll stop and wonder where she got her information. I'll ask her to reveal her source. I'll demand some proof. Did her notions come from actual facts based in reason or did she/I dredge them up from the hell pit that burns like a perpetual fire at the bottom of my needy, selfish, famished little soul?"

Here's to good friends...
...who laugh at the crazy lady in your head.
...and sometimes help you see that you've accidentally been listening to her.
...and help talk you off the ledges she tries to put you on.