#RECOVERY

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

[desultory-suggestions]

If you are feeling good about yourself or situation and then your mood suddenly shifts leaving you feeling insecure, unsure, etc. try to remind yourself that nothing has truly changed but your perception. Your cute outfit did not suddenly become horrid. Your delicious meal did not tranform into a terrible one. Your peers perception of you has not radically transformed over a social misstep. Everything we experience is put through it through our mental filter, and that can convince us that everyone else sees us with the judgement we have for ourselves. Be kind to yourself.

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

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[lotuspositivity]

You don't have to force yourself to bounce back so quickly. I read something recently that said "when you come in from a rainstorm, you don't expect yourself to be dry and warm right away", and it really resonated with me. It's okay to take time to dry off and warm up. Take the time you need to process what happened to you.

[daily-reminders-that-ur-enough]

You deserve to feel welcomed and loved

[recomvery]

One of the most dangerous things in the world is not being able to say no to people because you don't want to upset them or dissapoint them. This will completely ruin your life in every way possible, at work, in your private life, your sex life and your friendships. It's a way of removing your own consent in your own decisions and go against your wishes, it is always a crime against yourself. Let yourself have a say. Upsetting people is better than traumatizing yourself.

[thelatestkate]

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[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Is it normal to-" Doesn't matter. Do it weird if it isn't hurting anyone

[chippythedog]

[therecoveryquotes]

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

[serenityquest]

[aceofwhump]

Leverage: Redemption 3x01

[thepeacefulgarden]

[mutagenesys]

I've been learning the annoying, beautiful, painful truth about healing from complex dissociation:

The less you disassociate, the worse you'll feel.

Because you'll actually be feeling. Not just observing the feeling through a fog or reinforced aquarium glass. You'll feel the betrayal, shame, heartbreak, sorrow, and longing.

It fucking sucks.

Every time I feel an emotion strong enough to knock me on my ass, a part of me cries out to reject it and thrust it aside again.

But I force myself to hold myself through the waves. Because feelings are medicine. Feelings are teachers. Releasing the feelings teaches my body that I can let the trauma go. It happened a long time ago. We're safe now.

And we won't feel bad forever. No matter how excruciating the despair, it is temporary.

And I get to feel good, too. Really good. Not mildly pleased or faintly amused. I get to feel joyous, delighted, thrilled, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, euphoric, enchanted...

And so I keep practicing feeling things myself, rather than re-assigning them to a compartment within.

It's worth it. It's worth it. It's worth it.

[the-healing-mindset]

Go after what you want with all of you. Don't hold back.