Tara Schuster

These people are not bad, damned, or unworthy, rather they are just working out their own shit. But let me remind you that their shit is not your shit. You do not need to “save” them.

sed to suffer from a deep-seated paranoia that people, in general, didn’t like me. Or at least, I figured, they were judging me at all times.

I would endlessly obsess over external feedback, playing back the most mundane conversations in my head, torturing myself over all the ways I felt I had screwed up.