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Mental strength always triumphs over emotional reactions, every time. 💪🧠

Whenever you're in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, think about all the times you have been in such situations and say to yourself, "I did it before, so I can do it again."

My situation is only as bad as my attitude towards it.

Rise above ✊ We are here to overcome our challenges and stay positive, no matter what life throws at us. We must find our inner strength and resilience, handle life's ups and downs with grace, and become stronger through our experiences. Now is the time to learn and grow.

loving myself, decided to take some selfies after a while. it’s slowly taking me time to get comfy around being around a camera and wanting to vlog. i know it’s me slowly loving myself. you can take your time in falling in love again with yourself & things you love ✨

Affirmations for trauma/difficult past

I have been through hell and back

I am alive and that's a damn good start

My past affects me heavily, but it does not define me

I am compassionate

I am patient

I am kind to myself, even when I don't meet my own expectations

I would never judge somebody for asking for help, because I know what it's like to be helpless

I would never judge myself for asking for help

Support from others helps me to grow and heal

I am strong for seeking support instead of suffering in silence

I am honest and I am smart

I know my own limitations and I can set boundaries for myself

I can tell people "no" when things are getting to be too much for me

I don't owe people my time or my compliance

I follow the road to recovery, even when it's difficult

I follow the road to recovery even when it's uncomfortable

I keep my head up when I walk, because I am strong

I am safe

I love who I am becoming

I love myself in this present moment

Be your best cryptid self 🧡

Art by Gemma Correll

Susan Cain : le pouvoir des introvertis

Her lecture is absolutely amazing! She’s amazing! Standing here in front of a crowd and talk about such a personal matter to many, but especially to her, and make it an enlightening presentation.

Some thoughts on recovery and self-diagnosing

This might just apply to me, but one thing I learned in recovery is not to over-pathologize every little behavior I observe in myself and self-diagnose without consulting my therapist. If I let this go unchecked, I always think there is something wrong with me and that I don’t have any real control over my behavior, life, and mental health.  I catastrophize and blame it all on pathology as though I can do nothing to help myself, when in reality that’s not true.  There are parts of my life I can’t control, but a lot of it really is up to me. I constantly feel like I am relapsing and failing at recovery when I worry that every little thing is me being sick again.  A spell of sadness with a clear reason isn’t necessarily depression and falling apart. Feeling a typical amount of fear before a job interview or performance isn’t crippling anxiety- it’s just there, and noticeable.  But I can survive these things and function.  It might be hard, but I can do it, and there are thoughts I can think to help myself along the way.  These things become disorders when they make functioning more difficult than normal and damage my self esteem.  In recovery, sadness, fear, etc. are normal emotions.  It is important to learn to distinguish between mental events that threaten your quality of life and normal ups and downs.  When you’re so used to feeling terrified all the time, even the smallest negative feelings can scare you into feeling like there’s something wrong with you, because you know how deep the valley goes.  However, normal starts to feel scary after feeling awful for so long.

On that note, I think that self-diagnosing is an important thing to be able to do.  You will always be able to recover if you can observe your thoughts and actions clearly, and say “the way I am feeling, thinking, and behaving is harmful and not okay” and take the appropriate next steps (therapy, lifestyle changes, etc).  However, sometimes (at least, in myself) I think the tendency to self diagnose can continue on after you’ve recovered from a place of discomfort with being happy.  Again, after being mentally ill for years, normal and healthy can be unfamiliar and scary.  Sometimes I want to be sick because sick became my normal.

Also, another thing I learned is that going to therapy and improving your life is really, really hard! It is so difficult to set aside your pride and radically change the way you interact with the world! To anyone who is thinking about going to therapy, currently in it, or has gone, props to you for having the courage to start making changes and taking control over your quality of life.  It’s most certainly something to be celebrated, and I hope you feel like a badass for it.

With love,

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You can be lovingly assertive.

For a lot of my life I associated assertiveness with abusive personalities- as a sort of warning sign of violence to come. But that's not right: we need to have the courage to defend ourselves. Sometimes assholes just get ahold of that power and misuse it.

There is a happy medium between saying "Shut up, you're a piece of shit and I'm going to do what I want" and letting people walk all over you.

You can enforce your boundaries and refuse to accept mistreatment and disrespect without being verbally demeaning. If you don't speak up and let people know when they cross your lines, though, you can be taken advantage of. You owe it to yourself to fight in your corner, and for the benefit of everyone involved. It doesn't make you an asshole to say that the way you are being treated is not okay. You're an asshole when you use disrespect and your own anger as an excuse to say things to hurt others more than the situation demands.

It doesn't matter if you piss others off for standing up for yourself, and for what is true. Anyone who wants to hate you for protecting yourself is invariably an asshole.

You can stand up for what is right and kind, even if everyone around you hates you for it, and you can do it in a firm, loving way. Assertiveness is not abusiveness.

Honesty pisses people off sometimes, but it's better that you be honest than the type to tell everyone what they want to hear. Make your feelings known, ask for what you want, and tell situations gently as they are.

ADHD people are way too relatable

John Mulaney, a true ADHD icon

I’m no longer safe here

Hi I got physically attacked the other day by a family member after he started a nasty screaming match (again) about trans people being rapists. He threw a bowl of hot food and a fork as hard as he could into the back of my head as I was leaving.

Since it’s reached physical violence, i’m no longer safe here, and I gotta get me and my cats out of here. I got some options, and once i’m settled somewhere I can find a new job, but I need help to get out first, so I set up a GFM.

Please donate or reblog if you can, I gotta get out asap.

Hey y'all, I don't know what's going on in my life anymore but if like to make this blog into a public account of my life and struggle against mental health. I plan on posting my feelings and and vent into the void and hope it says something back. I plan on placing the necessary trigger warnings at the top of all of my posts. I will occasionally post pictures of myself and what little art that I have been up to.

The purpose of this is to hopefully raise awareness of mental health and to effectively post a public diary and track my personal progress through this crazy, wild ride.

i’ve started replacing “i want to die” with “i feel overwhelmed” in my internal monologue, which is usually more accurate and more productive

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