#is it a message about mental health

[sseureki]

Celebrities who get their privacy invaded without consequence watching Mazey Day in the beginning thinking it was gonna be some typical Black Mirror deep message about leaving them alone.... 

And they see that.  Leave them alone. They could be turning into a wolf and they deserve privacy

[uncanny-tranny]

I recently had to do a project in one of my psych classes, and man, I knew that CBT was used for every little thing, but seeing over and over, "do CBT! CBT is the best for every mental illness!" was so jarring. I'm absolutely biased because of my own experiences, but I just don't think it's as universal a treatment model as it's touted.

If you didn't benefit from CBT, it's not because you're lazy or didn't try hard enough or lacked intelligence or foresight into your own needs. Frankly, it's a therapy model that (I think) shouldn't be the only readily-accessible model and among the only therapy models covered by insurance. Some of us should not be treated in a CBT model and that's okay. It's not a sign of poor character or unreasonable demands, and if you don't think it's a model that works for you, then it's your right to express that!

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

can we stop the trend of putting traumatized and mentally unstable characters into romantic relationships as their “happy endings”?

[internetdruid]

Evening, ladies

[curiositysavesthecat]

imagine yourself in this situation; you got a text from someone (can be a friend, a family member, literally anybody) and the text was something along the line of "can we talk?" or "can I ask you something?" — you knew it was something serious, but the person wouldn't tell you right away what that something was, in the sense that they were waiting for you to respond first.

(for me, there was this period of waiting, of the unknown, especially if you didn't see the text right away but about 30 minutes later, for instance, and when you texted back, you'd have to wait for that person to see your response and then respond back, and you had no idea what went on and your mind started imagining the worst...)

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[krenenbaker]

| ;＾▽＾)ノ ... hey...

sorry that it's been a while… I'm still kind of getting used to actually working a 9-to-5 (that was more overwhelming of a change than I had expected!), but I am still here!! I'm back and feeling a whole whack of a lot better than I was :3

(also you know when you log out of things - Tumblr, Discord, and numerous other social medias - then realize that you haven't spoken with your friends in way too long, feel weirdly embarrassed and don't talk with them for even longer even though you're thinking about them and it makes no sense to do that, feel sad, and then finally log back in and feel like you're totally out of the loop? haha… oops…)

I guess a few little updates? 

first off, work is great! I'm loving my job and my coworkers, and it's all super engaging stuff I've been making there! things are SUPER busy since we're in the process of moving locations, but it's a great place to be :3

I've started listening to WAY too many Vkei artists and bands for someone who doesn't understand Japanese. it's been almost all I've listened to at work for the past month and a half or so. eight hours a day. every day.

My interest in twst and my other games had been slowly waning… I haven't played them in far too long ( ´-｀) however! I do still adore them. I am putting together a twst cosplay to go to the fan convention in my city in September~

I've missed y'all, and I think about all of you often. so… I’m sorry for being away for so long ♡

[takemetodragonstone]

okay i’m going to be a bitch for a second but hear me out. i hate posts like this. i hate them so fucking much. they’re branded as “self-care” but they just assume so much. and if the things they’re assuming as givens happen to not be true for you, they make you feel even worse.

“everything that has ever felt like a hurdle, you’ve passed through”. except what if you haven’t? what if life has knocked you down, and you still haven’t figured out how to get back up? what about us?

i’m still afraid of the same things i was afraid of ten years ago (and five years ago and two years ago). i haven’t overcome anything. i haven’t pushed through. i’m alive, but that’s pretty much all i have going for me in terms of survival. i’m actually probably worse off than i was ten years ago.

posts like this have a place in the discussion of mental health, i’m not denying that. if this kind of thing makes you feel better, that’s great. i’m genuinely happy this resonates with so many people. i’m just exhausted with seeing this kind of message presented as The standard of mental health everywhere. this “look how strong you are! look how far you’ve come!” message just rings hollow to me. idk i just think when it comes to mental health we need to get more comfortable talking about people who genuinely aren’t progressing and “overcoming” too.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[snzyspencer]

random sickie rambling post

I have been so lucky to not have a cold in a hot minute but ironically just a few days after stopping my immunosuppressant medicine I come down with something. I’m hoping it’s just a cold, but God I feel awful. My throat is sore and swollen, I was getting lightheaded at work and I felt like I was sweating (it’s snowing outside.) I don’t have a fever but I’m sore all over and my nose has been so itchy. It’s hard for me to stifle my sick sneezes so every time I sneeze it hurts my throat and I get all sniffly. I’m honestly amazed I made it through my shift, at least I have off tomorrow…

[uncanny-tranny]

Honestly, I think I personally prefer to call myself insane because everything else in terms of language for mental illness comes across as either toothless (i.e., doesn't give you the impression that your illness is "that bad") or is for sane people's comfort. It's just... wild to me just how sanitized some language feels for myself, or the idea that your illness isn't really making you ill even if you genuinely feel like you've gone insane

[ask-miasma-ghoul]

I was wrong. Things do not get better.

[professionaljester]

love my bad mental health, love being suicidal all the time

[heybaetae]

hi

[this-is-ali]

Y'all, it's 2023. Can we please stop pretending it's cool to hate on Dear Evan Hansen?

[chellychuu]

As an artist, do you ever get the feeling you’re letting your followers down? Like you’re not making the art that they followed you for and it’s going to make them leave?

I’ve had poo brain for the past two months and it’s making art a chore, like why I am so concerned about ‘oh it’s been too long since I drew *thing*’ or ‘oh I’ve drawn my OC’s twice in a row I gotta draw fanart so I don’t bore people’ with them’ or ‘I wanna do some sketches but then I won’t have anything to post and then it’ll be three days since I posted’ or ‘I already made some adopts, I have to do actual art people wanna see’ like??? I’m fighting with my thoughts over what to post and it makes drawing anything difficult cause I’m just like ‘I have to make this great! I gotta give em what they want!’ And I don’t know what that is so it’s breaking me down 😭

And it’s no one’s fault, I just get these overwhelming thoughts sometimes. I want to have fun and draw whatever without playing 4d chess to decide what’s the most “optimal” thing to post. I want to experiment more but I’m afraid to, or when I do it turns out badly so then I have to post something not great.

This is all over the place I’m so sorry 😭 I really just needed to vent (please no advice, just had to put my thoughts into words haha) Thank you for enjoying my art (or even if you’re just here for the cute pink stuff, thank you!) I want to be a better artist for you guys! 💖

[jessiesjaded]

random picture dump :)