Not that interesting, Julian.
This answers so many questions, like “why are there buttons inside my winter coat?” and “how do I keep my shank buttons from flopping all over?” and “what am I supposed to do with those extra buttons that come with clothes that my Depression-era grandparents collected and that I can’t bring myself to throw away?
If you’re in that kind of depression where everything is blurry and days blend into one another, taking a lot of photos of positive things might help. If your pet does something cute, you ate something good, got a high score, you cleaned your room, the weather was nice… I’m not saying this will fix your depression, it’s just a good reminder that you are in fact living regardless of the depression distorting your memory and making your past seem like fog of sadness and nothing else.
i wish someone had told me this a few years ago i don’t remember my late twenties
A super good trick, could be very helpful if you are strugglin with disassociation. A picture with a time stamp on it would give you concrete evidence if there’s something you vaguely remember but aren’t sure if it was real or whatever. I know it’s been helpful for me in the past 👌🏻
This is why I don’t throw tantrums at people for instagramming/tweeting about what they had for lunch. Microblogging platforms are another really good way to mark time and to commemorate those little achievements that other people take for granted. Even if all you have to record one day is that you thought of a really awful pun, it all adds up to help you remember that you’re actively existing, even when it doesn’t feel like it.
This is really important, actually, and the part where microblogging is normalized - that is, it’s something anyone does, just because - is part of what makes it helpful. (If people don’t want to know what you had for lunch THEY CAN STOP FOLLOWING YOUR INSTAGRAM. FFS people.)
actually, I think I’m going to do this when on days when I’m feeling burned out and sad from now on during residency.
online rp has been my salvation during some of my worst times. there are years where i don’t remember anything but depression, chronic pain, cigarettes and booze, but i can open up my log files and reread the stories i spun with a good friend and remember there were things to smile about even then.
you know the ‘footprints in the sand’ parable? i look back and see only one set of footprints, but i open up those logs and realize my friends carried me.
thehorsethief asked:
One of the first things I learned in Dialectical Behavior Therapy is the following: "it's not my fault, but it is my responsibility" meaning that it's not my fault that I have OCD and undiagnosed ADHD and severe anxiety, but how I respond to my situation is my responsibility and I am responsible for my actions
the-real-seebs answered:
That is a really good distinction to make!
The legend continues
I don’t know who this person is…But they are a beautiful, precious soul that much be protected.
yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine
The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.
So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.
Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.
Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.
That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.
I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop
Jake and Sisko arriving on DS9, I’m not sure if I’ll get around to finishing this because I keep finding things about the drawing that bug me, hence the wip
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