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GET TO KNOW ME: favorite tv series [1/10] ☆ Black Mirror (2011-) ☆

People don’t even look up anymore. The sky could turn purple and you wouldn’t notice for a month.

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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

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Learning to delete/mute/block before a negative comment takes root in your mind is a modern survival skill. If you're going to wander the overgrown countryside of the internet, you need to develop a quick eye for ticks.

It's deeply tempting to respond to the "well, actually," to the cruel assumption, to the unjust accusation, to the odious viewpoint. It's tempting because you're defaulting to the etiquette of dinner conversation. This isn't a dinner conversation. Someone is shouting at you from a moving car. Turn away.

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sept 01

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silly journaling for my silly mental health

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Health insurance is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who can’t afford to see me.  Housing is a mental health issue. I can’t use therapy to help a client whose depression and anxiety come directly from sleeping in the streets.  Food insecurity is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who isn’t taking their medication because their pills say “take with food” and they have nothing to eat. Healthcare is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose “depression” is actually a thyroid condition they can’t afford to get treated.  Wages are a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose anxiety comes from the fact that they are one missed shift away from not being able to make rent.

Child care is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who works 80 hours per week to afford daycare, and doesn’t have the time or energy left to come see me. 

Drug policing is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who ended up in prison because they got caught self-medicating with illegal substances. 

Police brutality is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose ‘anxiety’ is a very real and justified fear of ending up as a hashtag. 

If you’re going to make a stand for improving mental health, you have to understand that addressing mental health goes way beyond hiring more therapists and talking about mental health on social media. If we’re really serious about tackling this mental health problem as a country, it means rolling up our sleeves and taking down the barriers that prevent people from getting the help they need - even if those people are different than us, lead different lives, and make choices we don’t agree with.  We aren’t “fixing” mental health unless we’re fixing it for everybody. 

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Bumper stickers shouldn’t be like political opinions and fandoms. They should solely be facts about you and you’re driving that other driver’s might like to know. I want a bumper sticker that says “I’m scared of left turns and I know you can make a right on red but this car doesn’t turn so good in the rain so we’re gonna wait until it’s green.” They’ll still honk but I’ll know I’ve pled my case before my peers.

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Any mental health treatment that communicates “you are disordered and the world is normal, so success means integrating into those norms” has as its goal social control, not healing

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That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most. UP (2009) dir, Pete Docter

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calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

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dont worry mutuals im not perceiving you as your assigned gender youre all a glowing humanoid light form to me dont even worry about it