#october slide

[chronicallydragons]

could someone pretty please explain to my autonomic nervous system that we are not actually under attack or being chased by tigers when we...*checks notes*...are sitting up?

[onlytiktoks]

@a-captions-blog

[chronicallycouchbound]

The October slide is so real and I hate it

[nagichi-boop]

Thought the October slide didn’t apply to me cuz my POTS seems to be relatively the same as it was. The past week or so I’ve been in more pain than I have recently and didn’t know why. Well…apparently maybe I’m not immune to the effects of seasons changing.

[spooniestrong]

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This is so real. 💙🥄

[crazycatsiren]

Sometimes, I just have to gently say to myself: I'm in a lot of pain, the house is not dirty, cleaning can wait. And then go back to my books.

[onisionofficial]

I actually feel a lot better knowing that my joints being extra messed up lately isn't my fault. It's literally just happening because it's October.

[thedisablednaturalist]

My November slide has started early, and I feel fucking terrible. I feel like I have the flu without the mucus. My stomach is fucked from taking antibiotics so long so my stomach is super upset and going to the bathroom has not been fun. I also have started feeling way more emotional and I've been getting frustrated faster and haven't been able to control outbursts as well.

October is usually the last month I have to enjoy doing things before my chronic illness gets worse. I love halloween and I love being outside in the fall but I'm exhausted and sad and angry and I can't do fieldwork as long (we've literally been doing only 1-2 hours a day).

I just want to stay in bed

[bugbyte]

Comic status, October sads edition

So I expected to be able to get through some art and get a comic page posted and it turns out I am having some difficulty with that. It is in progress, I’m chipping away at it, I’ve just been having a case of the bad brains for like two weeks and it finally hit me that “oh yes, it’s depression, both seasonal AND original flavor.” (Don’t worry, I have multiple medical professionals to help deal with all of this and I’m in no danger or anything, it’s just like, trying to crawl through thick deep mud, day after day. I’ll get out eventually, I’m sure.)

Anyway, I am working on things, I’m just struggling a bit. October is kind of historically a bad month for me, just a long series of bad life things that all coincidentally occurred during this month. Kinda sucks the fun out of Halloween and stuff when you’re just reminded over and over of a lot of really unhappy things.

For example, I am trying not to think too hard about it, but this week is the anniversary of my cat passing away a year ago and that is messing me up a little more than I thought it would.

But I’m also trying to use it as a motivator, because if I can keep at doing the things I need to do (important life stuff) no matter how stressful it feels, and occasionally (hopefully more quickly than I have been) make some comics, we will get out of our current situation and into a place where we can adopt some kittens. I need to make this real. Can they be considered medicinal kittens? I think so.

[heaveniowa]

keep a calendar, this way you will always know.

[brittsekland]

Two young women on a Florida Vacation, October 1968.

[misskohane]

"October slides in"

[octopunkmedia]

Maddox-Julien Slide as Dice in Livescreamers (2024, dir Michelle Iannantuono)

[weirdstrangeandawful]

We need to all hibernate through September and October (and November for the warmer climate people??? I don't know how warm places work).

Side note, moving to warmer places does not help. Don't try it. It's better to be in a place where it just suddenly starts pelting snow one day and it's winter.

october slide kicking my ass…it hurts every time I use my left arm. almost died putting my hoodie on. and I slept weird to cushion my arm and fucked up my back on the right side like what if I just don’t move for a month so I can’t trigger anything else to hurt or flare up

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A busy corner of Pearl St. in lower Manhattan at noon, October 7, 1942.

Photo: Charles W. Cushman via Indiana Univ.

[talkethtothehandeth]

The October Slide ™️ (derogatory) is about to begin. The clouds are heavy and hurting me and my joints are murdering me I can’t do it