#i am being sarcastic when i say it is a mental illness upgrade it was a joke please dnt murder me

[anonauthorsworkshop]

It’s been radio silence for a little while, just checking in to make sure you’re still alive lmao

hi all! been quiet on here for a while i know i kn

I KNOW i've only mentioned this on the blog like 1 or 2 times BUT i am diagnosed with OSDD! well i was until some new stressors + trauma got added into our lives and dissociation barriers seriouslyy amped up etc etc and woohoo mental illness UPGRADE!! diagnosed with DID now I AM NOT DEAD I AM NOT DEAD just please keep in mind i am an alter in a DID system & with this new stress in our lives i have nottt really been able to front as much as i used to. i am like. the designated author/writer of our system. and with all the dissociation and all the being-blocked-from-the-front-because-i-am-not-needed-right-now has prevented me from doing as much writing as i'd like!!!

just please be patient with me i'mtryingmybest and i will most likely be able to front more when things calm down

THANKU&LOVEU

[thepringlesofblood]

y’all, i got a hot depression tip from someone who’s been seeing a therapist for half a decade

so. we all know about it sucks when someone tells you yoga will solve all your problems. that’s annoying bc it belittles you and pretends like you’re not doing enough and there’s some easy way that will fix everything.

I put this acknowledgement up front so y’all don’t come after for saying exercise helps.

I just finished talking with my psychiatrist. After years of trying different meds and different dosages, we’ve run out of places to go. We agree that what I’m on is probably best. I am still having serious symptoms, and meds aren’t going to solve that at this point. I’ve been with my therapist for years too, and we’ve tried a lot of different shit, and a lot of it has been helpful, but I am still experiencing seriously disabling symptoms of depression and anxiety.

so

She gave me a ‘prescription’ to exercise.

at first I was like oh god no, i’m not going to be able to get to a gym, I can barely get out of my room some days, I’ve tried yoga and it didn’t help, I’m fat and proud of that but other people are going to Look At Me and Think Things and I don’t like being perceived, please no.

and she said ‘you don’t have to go to the gym or join a class or anything. you can start as small as you want’

*cue mack truck hitting me in the face*

how tf have I not taken the biggest, first lesson in mental illness and life in general, break things down until you find an amount you can do, and apply it to the one therapist suggestion that’s never worked for me?

she was like ‘yeah whatever you do can be really small, just do it every day and work up to something bigger if you can’

some of her suggestions, along with some of mine

take a walk. doesn’t have to be a run or a jog, just walk around the block, walk to the store, anything.

when you get used to it you can upgrade to a jog or run, or you can chose to jog/run for certain parts of your walk

e.g. walk for 5 min, jog for 5 min, walk for 5 min, jog for 5 min, and bam you been exercising 20 min babey

dance. put music on in your room and groove.

make a playlist that’s 30 min long or 15 min long or however long you can dance for, and go through it.

you can put high energy songs followed by low energy songs so you can rest. no one’s watching, you’re just in your room groovin’!

if you have that $$$$, get a treadmill/elliptical/stationary bike and put it in front of the tv. put on an episode of whatever you like best that’s 20-30 min long and just walk.

similar to taking a walk, you don’t have to commit to jogging/running the whole time, just make sure you’re at least walking.

If you broke like me, put on a 20-30 min episode of tv (or podcast!) and do little exercises - squats, push-ups, lunges, stretches, planks, that kinda shit

what I do for this is I look up drinking games/bingo and replace take a drink w exercises

this is also good bc you don’t have to commit for exercising for the whole time. it’s just whenever Sokka says something sarcastic do 5 pushups, or whenever Clint McElroy says something that makes his kids uncomfortable do 10 squats

the only thing with this is you HAVE to make sure there are a lot of conditions/rules to the drinking game, and that they happen often enough that you’re not just watching tv and doing 1 pushup (or if that’s all you can manage rn, work up to it!)

I highly suggest making your own - it’s fun and it’s doctor’s orders babey

if that’s too much for you, establish a cycle (can be time based or not)

e.g. 5 pushups then 10 squats then 5 lunges than 30-second plank and repeat for the whole time

or

until the next commercial break, I’m doin squats, after that I’ll do lunges

if you have a wii

get just dance. you’re gonna feel stupid but it genuinely works and is kinda fun. theres a bajillion of em and you can look up what songs each one has and pick one that has a bunch of songs u like

i know many of us have bad experience with yoga class, but guess what? don’t have to be a class. look up a bunch of poses that you think you can do (they don’t have to be hard!) and just do them in your room. it doesn’t have to be a public thing.

TL;DR exercise doesn’t have to mean going to the gym every day. you can start as small as you need, just make it a routine and build up to it.