I’m not usually a jewelry person and I’m not usually a symbols person. But I won’t be taking this off anytime soon. The design is a representation of the molecular structure of serotonin and dopamine. Two things I need more of, or more healed neural pathways (broken by complex trauma) to transport them. As a treatment-resistant depressive, this ring, gifted to me by two people who love and know me well, is a reminder. A reminder to be kinder to myself. To try to remember I am mentally ill, chronically ill, and that I am doing well despite, with, maybe because of these things. My brain is inextricably part of me, and my brain is bad with these chemicals. But maybe having them elsewhere on my body, as part of my person, will help, just a little bit.
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