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Dear Doctor..

Here are fourteen letters. I decided on the number fourteen because this was the age I realized my mother had a medicine cabinet.

By Anna DeblyPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
D E A R • D O C T O R

I think it is normal to feel anxiety when going to see the doctor. I think it starts as a child, going to see a doctor when you are sick or even for a checkup. But we know they are here to help, and having faith that the doctor can fix you, it would be silly to ever be scared of your doctor right?

~ D E A R 1 D O C T O R ~

-Can you write me a prescription strong enough to fix my whole life?

~ D E A R 2 D O C T O R ~

-I’m so great-full to have a doctor like you. I’m so relieved to have someone who finally knows what I need, because I had not the slightest clue.

~ D E A R 3 D O C T O R ~

-The next time you put your middle finger up to the world and dig it deep inside me, use your eyes and look. You know the pain hid there to..

~ D E A R 4 D O C T O R ~

-It was never about money or the title you carried. If you devoted yourself to school and hard work for that many years, I thought you would have been that consistent with me as well.

~ D E A R 5 D O C T O R ~

-I enjoyed the double life to..

~ D E A R 6 D O C T O R ~

-I only knew how to fix the outside, your job was the inside.

~ D E A R 7 D O C T O R ~

-You were just a bandaid for between my legs..

~ D E A R 8 D O C T O R ~

-You knew how to turn me into a waterfall emotionally and physically. I thought this was what washing away pain felt like, not just drowning it for a bit.

~ D E A R 9 D O C T O R ~

-They say you can’t save me. But I don’t think any other doctor can. But now i’m being told I need to let another try. It’s been seven years. How long will it take for another doctor to master my mind and control my body when you had done it on only the first try.

~ D E A R 10 D O C T O R ~

-Our tracks are hidden so well, why aren’t my emotions?

~ D E A R 11 D O C T O R ~

-What values do you value?

~ D E A R 12 D O C T O R ~

-Did you know most women cry through their legs, forgetting they have eyes?

~ D E A R 13 D O C T O R ~

-You looked like the kind of medication I needed.

~ D E A R 14 D O C T O R ~

-Do you search for me in new faces? (He is addicted to the addicted.) I search for you in new offices. (Addicted.)

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About the Creator

Anna Debly

A N N A 🌻 D E B L Y

06/12/97 FEMALE

“If any of the words in the brackets below speak to you, I encourage you to follow me and some of my toughest life lessons, for better or worse.” A.D.

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