#can panic attacks kill you

[teaboot]

I feel like if you're using a lot of disposable plastic bags in your day to day life, you've gotta do something sustainable to make up for it. Like using bamboo toilet paper or eco friendly cat litter or something, yknow

Honestly I exaggerate for comedic effect, while I DO routinely use ziplock bags to hold spaghetti I cook maybe once a month and the bag itself is usually for freezer storage. I actually throw out maybe one bag a week? I DO hate washing plates and tupperware and junk but that usually just means I eat sandwiches without a plate.

I agree though that needless waste should be avoided, and I do avoid it- biodegradable bags and recyclables, empty butter tubs used to store leftovers, etc.

This said, though, not applicable necessarily for myself but for a lot of others- I feel that it's importat to remember that there are many people who legitimately NEED things like plastic straws, or catheters, or pre-packaged foods

And the idea that that's a moral failing that individuals need to personally make up for when a single billionaire blows out more CO2 in a long weekend than I will in my whole life on a superjet meet-cute in the Bolivian rainforest between humvee drag races funded by the river-polluting textiles plants they planted in a third world country to avoid EPA laws and give an entire village stillbirths and stomach cancer is an idea that those very same bigwigs have spent a LOT of time and money investing in planting in the public psyche.

Like- Glass bottles are infinitely recyclable, so why are so many drinks in plastic now? Loads of drinks manufacturers used to buy them back and clean them for re-use, so why did they stop? If they chose to make something out of a limited and environmentally irresponsible material, why is it my failing to track down a correct process of disposal for them? What if there are none in my area? Do I lobby for more recycling plants in my area? Do I set aside some of my limited time outside the pain factory of my job- which I have more than one of, thanks to rising costs of things just like that drink I just emptied- to properly dispose of this company's waste FOR them?

Say coca-cola just rolled up to your town and started dumping millions of empty plastic bottles in the street, going, "wow, you should really think about building and staffing a recycling depot, it would be really shameful of you to just put these in the trash." When companies purposefully use materials with limited lifespans- because yes, even plastic can only be reused so many times- and tell you it's your own fault if it harms the environment- that's essentially what they're doing, just with more steps.

Yes, its important to be as environmentally concious as we can in our day to day life, but responsible sustainability is not catholicism. We don't get good boy points from our lord and savior Captain Planet every time the average low-income household gathers together to hold hands and repent for a single-use plastic that allows them to access something they need.

Entire families could eat trees and shit dead lithium batteries for years and still not do as much damage to the planet as an average dye plant or braindead celebrity does in a week just for fun, and I'm mad about it

...this went on longer than intended.

TL/DR: DO recycle and minimize waste, but don't beat yourself up over the little waste you can't avoid, and follow the money.

EDIT: Part 2

[fumifooms]

What if we were both magic prodigies and it otherized us in different ways and we devoted ourselves to protecting a family member who has general other goals & priorities. What if we both did self-sacrifical devotion in opposite ways.

What if we were dark mirrors of each other and where I've grown overcontrolling you've grown complacent. What if, bought as a servant into a pretty loving home, ownership and control is what love looks like to me, and to you neglected and lonely growing up, love is gratefully taking any scraps of it you’re lent.

By belonging to someone, even if she comes back injured or fails at finding Delgal, she feels like she belongs and is cherished, by owning someone he feels safe in them not leaving him.

She’s what’s tethering him do you see… And he’s the only thing giving her direction and purpose in her state. She needs a compass and he needs a support.

They’re both so out of it 😭 It’s the weirdly intense and unearned mutual trust and reliance on each other?? They’re each other’s weird little comfort codependent teddy bear. Or at least they were headed towards that before SHE DIED THEN HE DIED THEN THEY BOTH FORGOT ABOUT EACH OTHER AND NEVER MET EVER AGAIN. Though she’s also the guard attack hound keeping him safe… And vice versa he heals her and can rewrite her very being with just one wave of his hand. They’re both so so mentally and physically vulnerable both but they cling onto each other. They can’t perceive things accurately but despite it all someway somehow they stumble into something closer to resembling companionship just before they both die. Falin is just that kind and Thistle is just that lonely. Overworked. We both haven’t lived for ourselves in a very long time, haven’t we.

They both have a similar devotion to the people they love but again the difference is that Thistle starts overtsepping while Falin is self-effacing. The other difference between them is that people care about Falin <3 People have given up on Thistle long ago, and he has given people reasons to, while people refuse to give up on Falin. Yaad has a mini arc about it dw about it it’s ok he’s not all alone in the end 😭😭 He reached out for Marcille’s hand but they already all wanted to help him, they just had to be given the chance to, Yaad just had to be given the chance to, it’s okay I’m okay

Hey what if we learned to get in touch with our own identity and the world around us and living in the present again through being in the worst codependent situationship ever.

Falin and Thistle sitting in a tree, sucking on flowers together because they’re h-u-n-g-r-y 💕💕💕

I bet he’s only ever thought of flowers as useless ornaments. Weak weeds. But she shows him they’re tasty and useful and good and pretty in their own right too and deserve existing without proving their worth and waaa <33 Thistles…... Did you know thistles taste sweet if you remove the thorns and eat them?

"Even as a chimera, her kind nature remains" you can’t suppress her in the way that matters. You can’t soothe him in the way that matters. It’s doomed. You’re doomed. It’s all doomed. Save me.

[cienie-isengardu]

Mortal Kombat 1 Behind the Scenes AU: Smoke's Fall

[Cage’s Mansion] [Waiting for Liu Kang] [Special Bonus] [Grandmaster’s commentary] [Climbing scene] [Madam Bo’s Inn] [Cage’s Mansion 2 (fire extinguisher)] [Medic] [Shang Tsung’s sad face]

[pilonciillo]

lol didn’t think someone giving money would give me anxiety

[moghedien]

i swear if you people start uwuifying OCD like you did with ADHD and autism I'm going to start attacking

[batwynn]

Me, immunocompromised and blessed with Emetophobia, reading that the new COVID variant includes 2-5 days of barfing and that everyone’s seen someone doing that in stores and in the middle of the road and at work and—

[crimeronan]

AU hunter and luz are like. we spent about a year with emotional distance between us because one of us was stupidly pushing the other away to handle belos herself and it sucked and was bad and neither of us enjoyed it. now we've worked out that we want to be there for each other and don't find the other burdensome so we're together almost 100% of the time with very few exceptions also we freak when we're not in close enough proximity to hold the other bc we're so scared of being in danger and we've shut out everyone remotely trustworthy bc we're scared of losing what we have if anyone finds out how fucked up we are. if either of us was sick of the other we'd detangle our shit but we like each other So Much so we're just gonna sleep together 5eva and both have godawful nightmares whenever the other isn't there to grab onto. there's nothing wrong with us and we are both coping super well it's just that we can't be apart for more than a couple hours at most or we'll become crazy. so we won't. thanks for coming to our ted talk

meanwhile everyone even remotely close to them is like "......ok. you guys are getting worse. you get how you're getting worse, right,"

[archersgoon]

the thing about froi's shitty little comments & propensity for spitting is that they are inherited. like that's the real reason trevanion realised the relation he heard gargarin bitch about perri & saw lirah spit at finnikin & he was like wait i know this one

[goosemagician]

Local girl realizes she has PTSD, more at 8

Time refers to himself as a doctor in the comic (hahahah time heals all wounds hahaha) so I thought it would be fitting that Hero visit him when she starts realizing that frequent panic attacks (I.e. getting swarmed by Fears and Griefs every time she steps outside) aren’t exactly convenient

Audio is from "Steven Universe: Future"

[merge-conflict]

taking a curious run-up on what might happen if goro did decide to leave arasaka and my first instinct was "he immediately has an ear-ringing cone-vision panic attack and has to sit down" and tbh I'm kind of attached to that scenario

[spacelesscowboy]

anyone else violently afraid of dying in a mass preventable accident or is it just me. asking for a friend.

[shima-draws]

Told my boss that NO I cannot take over customer phone calls because my anxiety will literally not be able to take it. And I’m being SO brave about it,

[chat-no-r]

I keep forgetting the target demographic of miraculous is kids and it's like 10 years old now so a lot of you are younger than me. It's so crazy. I'm supposed to be graduating college in like a few months.

So anyways, I just wanted to say that life gets better than highschool and all the bad times you have now will be a distant memory in the future. Keep working hard and what you love and keep loving yourself. Be honest with others, spread kindness wherever and whenever you can. Fake it till you make it. If you want to be a better person pretend you are. The world is a beautiful place and there's so many Wonderful people in it. Don't let a few discredit the rest. Be kind to mean people too, I know it's like bad, but idk, they need some kindness to learn kindness. But also don't take shit, if they're an ass call them out on it with a smile and move on. Kill them with kindness as they say.

Also treat every scary experience like exposure therapy, that angle helped me do a lot of stuff I was nervous about

[goldensunset]

[tr0ubl3d-tr4n53nd3r]

I opened up about my body image issues and people called me a horrible person, told me I'm invalidating people with eds and that I'm body shaming people? God what the fuck? Ive got no fucking support system in real life and the Internet just hates me I guess.

[queermania]

doing a disability psych eval when your disability is unrelated to your psychiatric condition is like walking a very awkward tight rope where if you lean too far in one direction you're outright lying but if you lean too far in the other direction you plummet to your death might get institutionalized