The Mouse Trap

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Across
  1. 3. Never living up to the expectation of mom and dad; similar to being “the failure”
  2. 6. When you never face the music; you may consider dropping out, and fantasize about the life you would have working at a minimum wage job again, picking up after the customer’s messes and never getting to your own
  3. 8. Looking down at your mangled form like it’s a Picasso painting, wonder what it’s like if you were another artist’s muse; this disorder causes an obsession with physical flaws
  4. 10. Going to bed and being haunted by your monster just like Frankenstein; paralyzed in your own brain, never getting any rest or sleep
  5. 11. The medication you forget to take for ADHD, and remember what it's like to be released from that curse, feel that adrenaline run through your veins, and become addicted to the rush
  6. 13. Synonym of this word is a pattern; the repetition of these events and series everyday without fail
  7. 14. Watching the fires in your life and letting it burn without feeling anything, embracing the emptiness
  8. 16. Breathing in euphoric poison in your lungs like your sniffing a rose, and become intoxicated by it’s twisted beauty; long term effects of inhaling this drug include lung cancer
Down
  1. 1. Feeling of isolation; the feeling of sitting on a green grassy hill surrounded by rocks and barren trees and think about what it's like to live a life in that stillness and be happy with the quiet
  2. 2. The act of opening tired eyes after a fitful sleep in the morning
  3. 4. The normalcy you realized you never had, and living in chaos instead because it’s all you have ever known; antonyms include uncertainty, unsteadiness
  4. 5. Take a shower at the end of the day like you always do, and rub the imaginary dirt off of your skin until blood is drawn; supposed drugs to cure this disconnection from reality: zoloft, xanax, klonopin
  5. 7. Outside of oneself; the act of crawling out of your body and watch your life from above, voiceless and alone
  6. 9. Staring in the mirror and wonder who is looking back at you, then choose to forget the stranger and draw a smiley face in the condensation; the first stage of grief
  7. 12. Smile at nothing, laugh at a stranger, and hate yourself; a lack of authenticity
  8. 15. No sense of self; symptoms include trashing another poem, another short story, anything that you have ever created; synonyms include self-doubt, chronic feelings of inadequacy