#overcoming illness

[compassionmattersmost]

The Six Types of Courage in the Journey with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

For those of us living with post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), the path we walk is not a simple one. Each day brings its own set of challenges, often invisible to the outside world but deeply felt within. Yet, amid the fatigue, the uncertainty, and the pain, there are moments where we are called to draw on reserves of strength we didn’t even know we had. Courage, in its many forms,…

[joncronshawauthor]

📚 Perseverance and Progress | Author Diary - September 27, 2024 🤒✍️

🤒 Battling Illness: Despite being ill this week, I pressed on with my writing commitments. It’s often difficult to maintain momentum during such times, but staying connected to my projects helps keep my spirits up. I managed to add about 10,000 words to “Forged in Blood,” the second book in the Guild of Assassins series 📘 Reading Updates:  I wrapped up “Fake Heroes” by Otto English, a…

[perdamian]

hey guys… we all know that it’s okay for mithrun to have a caretaker for the rest of his life, right? that even after he heals and potentially regains his desires he will probably still need support?? that the goal of healing is not to become a “normal person”, but to build skills to navigate the world in a way that accommodates your disability??? that relying on the people around you is not a failure, but proof of your desire to live????

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

alhaitham and kaveh as 'friends' - full circle

kaveh lying and using ‘his friend’ as a scapegoat for supposedly taking his plans is so um INTERESTING!! given his past references to Alhaitham, and that he was just talked with Alhaitham the scene before, this reads as a direct reference to Alhaitham, meaning that their relationship has come full circle from where we were initially introduced to kaveh

in the archon quest, paimon asks if Alhaitham and kaveh are friends, to which Alhaitham deflects, denoting a negative

but they are denied a friendship status definitively in alhaitham’s story quest where paimon directly asks kaveh if Alhaitham and he are friends, to which kaveh says although they used to be, they aren’t any longer

the game has repeatedly shown that Alhaitham and kaveh possess a deep understanding of each other, only it is their miscommunication and inability to compromise that causes the rift between them. Their character design is based around mirrors, and this ultimately poses the question of whether the two can align their beliefs, whether they can achieve a harmony

overcoming this rift between them begins in a parade of providence, where kaveh’s cycle of self-detriment in his excessive altruism due to his past guilt is particularly focussed on, with alhaitham’s reaction being saddened, and concerned, for kaveh’s mindset – not because his beliefs or philosophies are ‘correct’ over kaveh’s, but because of his belief that kaveh’s mindset negatively impacts him

Alhaitham posits that the issues between them are no longer about the ‘correctness’ of their respective philosophies after looking into sachin’s influence over kaveh’s father, in order to potentially provide kaveh closer, insinuating a more personal reason for the rift between them

It’s after this that a notable shift is seen in their dynamic, with cyno’s second story quest going out of its way to show a flashback in the intimacy of their home, and additionally showing the two voluntarily working together for the first time since their past, abandoned thesis

Their working together demonstrates this harmonisation of not only their personal, scholarly beliefs, but also their reconciliation as people, which can be seen in the two’s closeness, where they previously were separated due to strife – a closeness that is commented on by other characters

In nahida’s birthday event this intimacy is furthered even more, with kaveh wanting mehrak, an important helper companion, to be able to recognise alhaitham’s voice – as of now, this appears to be the only other person, besides himself, whom kaveh has programmed this feature for. Kaveh’s regard for mehrak, established in this scene, then carries over to Alhaitham, demonstrating how kaveh perceives the importance of their bond (i yapped about this more here!)

Going back to kaveh indirectly referring to Alhaitham as his ‘friend’, where this was previously denied, shows a fulfilment Alhaitham and kaveh’s narrative arc :’’’) I am so!?!?! Happy for them well done guys, you got there in the end <3

[sickfreaksirkay]

when people say it's stupid to learn latin because it "isn't useful" i literally go crazy wild like i get violent and aggressive and start gnashing my teeth looking like a dog with rabies or something

[skrrtscree]

ARCANE S2 SPOILERS(??)⏳️💣

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caught the timebomb virus sorry 🤒❤️‍🩹

[fishluring]

rain world art month day 6 and 7

[fascinationstreetmp3]

the more i think about it the more im convincing myself that if the show does do past book-plot-adjacent devil's minion that ends in a memory wipe instead of turning, then it means they've already incorporated a version of the period after daniel's turned where he ends up separating from armand and lives with marius for a long time. BUT that period of separation has become daniel living a human life for four decades instead.

book daniel focuses on his model towns, frequently disregarding almost everything else around him; show daniel focuses on his career above all else and ruins his marriages and relationship with his daughters....

but even with no past dm the separation after show daniel's turning works well too, on a much smaller scale. either way i just don't see them being able to incorporate that particular dynamic between marius & daniel in the future considering the differences between book & show daniel and for time reasons too, which is why i feel it's "already" happened in an altered form, either decades ago or during the timeskip between seasons. daniel's still gonna interact with marius in some way but i can't see it working out the same as it does in the books yknow

[nowheregyal]

had to share this because it's truly amazing

[daily-isat]

day 5. funny shirt fthursday

sketch version under the cut. because i think it looks funny.

i did this with my finger on my ipad screen (with really high stabilization on accident) because my pen died. kind of love how silly it looks

[blitzwhore]

It's always fun experiencing severe mental illness symptoms because of fiction, eh?

[compassionmattersmost]

Transforming the Suffering of ME/CFS into a Path of Healing

For those of us living with post-viral myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), the experience of life often feels like moving through a landscape filled with unseen obstacles. There is the fatigue—so heavy, so relentless—that it can feel like a weight we will never shake. There are the moments when even the simplest tasks become insurmountable, and the pain becomes a constant companion, whispering in…

[oltammefru]

Some dots to connect:

[murderenjoyer]

I'm about to take a silly haha meme too god damn seriously

People who try to "fix" Shane, marry him, and then divorce him because his area is messy and he still likes alcohol and spends full days in bed are ableist. No hyperbole.

"What the fuck do you mean love didn't cure your mental illness? You're in therapy now why aren't you neurotypical yet? You decided to work on your alcoholism why do you not loathe beer completely? What a waste of my time. There's no way I'm sticking with a loser like you, fuck off, get out of my house."

LOVE DOES NOT CURE MENTAL ILLNESS. NO AMOUNT OF LOVE WILL REMOVE CLINICAL DEPRESSION. If it did, people in loving relationships wouldn't kill themselves. People with spouses and children wouldn't kill themselves. People with very close and supportive friends wouldn't kill themselves.

PEOPLE WHO LOVE AND ARE LOVED KILL THEMSELVES ALL THE TIME. LOVE DOES NOT REWIRE THE BRAIN. LOVE DOES NOT FIX CHEMICAL IMBALANCES. CLINICAL DEPRESSION IS A LIFE-LONG ILLNESS IT IS NOT CURED BY SEX OR KISSES OR CUDDLES OR A WEDDING OR BECOMING A PARENT.

You do not have the special magical pussy/cock that will totally rewrite the way a mentally ill person's mind works sorry to break the news to you.

Therapy is not a magical building you walk into crazy and walk out of sane. Therapy cannot totally remove mental illness. The purpose of therapy is not to shoot the patient with a Normalcy Beam and make them sane. That. Is. Not. How. Therapy. Works.

Addiction is a life-long affliction. Once an addict, always an addict. Shane will always be an alcoholic. Forever. For the rest of his life. Working toward sobriety is not the same for everyone. Some people quit cold turkey. Some people traper off. Some people never actually stop using alcohol completely, they just lower their usage to a healthier, manageable level. Just because Shane is working on his addiction, that does not mean the addiction has vanished. He will always have periods of cravings. He will always hold positive memories of his time using, but he chooses every day to not go back to that place because it was harmful to him and the people around him.

If his spouse comes home and hands him a beer, of course he's going to like it. The structure of his brain has been altered by his addiction to make him very much like alcohol. Of course if his spouse gives him a beer, suggesting they're okay with him drinking, suggesting they want him to enjoy something he is addicted to and as such obviously craves, OF COURSE HE IS GOING TO LOVE THE GIFT.

Getting into a relationship with a mentally ill person with the goal of "fixing" them is absolutely vile. You chose him as a project, not as a person. You chose him to stroke your own ego about how awesome and perfect dating you is, not because you cared about him. You chose him because you liked a fictional idealized fantasy of him, not because you saw him as he truly is. You chose him put of pity, not love. Trying to make yourself out to be the magical protagonist who is so special so perfect that you can fuck him sane is so fucking fetishizing and infantalizing.

And then, when you realize your hero complex didn't play out the way you wanted it to, when you realize that being with someone who is mentally sick takes actual work and patience, you abandon him like trash. You call him a disgusting slob who isn't worth your time.

After he trusted you. He opened up to you about feelings that are so personal, so painful, so vulnerable. He truly believes you love and accept him.

And you throw him out on his ass. You tell all your friends he's a slovenly loser. You treat him like trash. The symptoms of his illness become a running joke amongst your friends. You callously reject a person you never respected, never saw as a true and whole person, someone you considered a diy project that you could tackle at your leisure and toss aside when the end result wasn't exactly what you wanted.

I am tired of abandoning Shane for his illness, an illness he's working on but will always suffer, being thrown around as a meme.

It's funny that you took advantage of a mentally ill man? It's funny that he's still suffering? It's funny that the person he truly believed loved and accepted him despite his flaws sneered at him, called him a slob, called him a loser, called him too broken to love, and ejected them from their life without a care in the world?

Thats funny haha hilarious?

I am sick of the aggressive ableism in this fandom around Shane. I am so fucking tired of this fandom pointing and laughing at him as a worthless piece of shit whose very real attempts to improve being pathetic and never enough.

What message do you think you're giving to mentally ill people in the fandom? Telling them that no level of effort is enough to make them worthy of love unless they are immediately perfect and cured and sane in every single way. Telling addicts that if they don't rewire their brain to make themselves loathe their substance, if they have a relapse, they're lying about their journey to sobriety. Telling sick people that their only worth lies in how well they can feed into someone's white knight savior fantasy.

It isn't funny, it isn't cute. It's cruel. It's fetishizing. It's cut and dry ableism.

Stop doing this shit. Stop supporting shit like this. Stop commenting with 800 laughing emojis when someone calls Shane a lost cause.

[jamieleecvrtis]

GREG HSU as Wu Ming-Han

Marry My Dead Body (2022)

[fruityumbrella]

bsky is fun ig but it truly is like walking into an irl party where you dont Really know anyone and everyone already has their own little circles, like maybe this is just the "little kid who never Quite fit in at school" in me but even though my mutuals on there are really nice i cant spend more than 10 mins on that app without feeling bad