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[viablemess]

Hey you. You know you should be doing The Thing. I don't want to do The Thing, either. But we can sit down and do it for 2 minutes together. Then we can do it for 5 minutes. Then 10. And so on and so forth until it is done. I'll be coming back to reiterate this.

To whoever needs to hear it: it does not have to be perfect. It does not have to be world altering. It just needs to be done. And I'll sit with you while you do The Thing.

Now go. Stop scrolling. Go work on The Thing. I'll be back to check on you and cheer us both on.

[gazagfmboost]

Jbreel Farroukh- elderly diabetic woman

Vetting: Social media content going back to 2018, many highlights with others, mom & at work. Instagram: Jbreel.f98 & fardousfarroukh & emjbreelfarroukh & company IG toptech Fund Currency: € Euro

You can see how much love Jbreel has for his dear mother in all of his content with her, multiple members of the family reached out hoping for help with sharing their story. He is an ambitious young man who lost his company but has hope to save his diabetic mother & to help his sister escape to finish her pharmacy degree. UPDATE - GFM Froze their gofundme, & they're starting over from scratch! I hope that you will please consider helping them inch back towards their goal with any tiny donation to the updated fund or by giving a heart or sharing their story-

I appreciate you helping their family to feel seen & heard during these terrible times!

Help Jbreel and his family to evacuate from Gaza gofund.me/a8ffe422

[questwithambition]

Sir that’s my emotional support New York Public Library bag and the 8 books she’s carrying

[becomingvecna]

anxiety, depression and/or being mentally and/or physically exhausted should always be a valid reason for any employee to take a day off without their paycheck being affected in any way, and also for any student to take a day off without their grade being affected in any way by the way

[2dmax]

Haneen, a trilingual Erasmus scholar from Gaza, Palestine.

Haneen and her family are living through genocide, famine, and a brutal winter in displacement. Please, support her any way that you can.

✅ Vetted: Her sister Abeer is line 202 on el shab hussein's list.

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Thank you for sharing. 💐

[gentlespriting]

consolidated all the upcoming assignments this morning...there's so much to do :')

submitted 1/4 of my assignments !! 🙌 🙌

hot pot for one (hdl soup packet that my mum bought) 🍲

[chu-diaries]

100 days of mental healthcare: day 100/100

Well, it's over! I genuinely can't believe it's been 100 days since I started this challenge (even more than 100, since I skipped a day or two when I couldn't post).

For those who just arrived, I started this challenge in April, the day after my birthday, when I was really in bad health. I had severe panic attacks about 4 times a day, which made me unable to do anything. I dealt with constant suicidal thoughts, I barely slept anymore and I was spending everything I had on doctors, self-knowledge courses and therapies. I found myself with two options: the first was to invest in medications that would make me dependent and drugged, but that would fix my brain. However, there was a risk that I wouldn't get the dose or medication right in time and my situation would get worse. The second option was longer and more difficult: studying how my body, my brain and my limits worked, and then adjusting day after day what wasn't going well. You know that I chose this option and that I created the 100-day mental healthcare challenge to track my progress on this.

In these 100 days I learned a lot that I want to share here. As we are all unique and different human beings, you may not agree with what I applied in my life, but I ask for respect and empathy, because all of this saved me. Also, some points have a scientific basis in research I did and books I read.

1. mental health and nutrition

This was one of the first things I learned. I realized that when I was hungry, my body didn't give me clear signals. Probably due to my autism and ADHD, I was always disconnected from my body's needs and didn't know how to identify hunger (which I expected to be something like a growling in my stomach, but it never was that way). What actually happened was that, instead of hunger, I had a critical increase in my intrusive and suicidal thoughts, which made mealtimes much worse than they should have been. Our mind is more vulnerable when the body is not properly fed and hydrated, and many of us neurodivergent people will not feel hunger like neurotypicals do. Our body wants us to move to find food, so it sends us successive stimuli through our brains to fight for our lives and, well, eat. Some of these stimuli can be very negative and, instead of propelling us forward, they drain our energy and make us even more depressed, which also doesn't happen to the same extent with neurotypicals, who deal with this type of thing much better. To avoid this, I started eating every 3 hours, and not because a doctor told me to, but because I realized that my crises happened with this frequency. By eating regularly and preventively, my body stopped depending on this resource to nourish itself and I became more mentally stable.

2. mental healthcare and intestinal system

The gut is not our second brain for nothing. The health of our mind is completely connected to the health of our gut. You have certainly heard the phrase “you are what you eat” and it is true. What surprised me most in my studies was discovering that neurotypical and completely mentally healthy people develop mental disorders if their gut microbiota is altered. In other words, we must nourish our gut to maintain our mental health. The more diverse our microbiota is, the better our mental health will be. This means eating various foods per week, as colorful and natural as possible, because food industrialization is also partially responsible for the number of mental disorders that exist today.

3. mental healthcare and eating meat

This is a difficult topic, since I was a vegetarian for many years, but I want to share what I learned with you. The incidence of mental disorders is directly associated with the levels of omega 3, taurine and tryptophan. Omega 3 is a good fat and essential not only for maintaining memory, but for all of our cognitive functioning and, although it can be supplemented in a vegan way, it is not as accessible to everyone in the appropriate dosage as fish. Similarly, meat has high levels of taurine and tryptophan, which regulate anxiety and depression and improve sleep. For many years I did not eat meat, supplementing protein with vegetables and whey, and for all those years I suffered from anxiety and depression. I never imagined that my blood type would also suffer more from this lack of protein: blood type O struggles more to maintain mental health and ideal mood levels with vegetable proteins. It is a blood type that needs animal protein. Going back to eating meat was not an easy decision, but I decided to test it out: even though I ate a small amount of animal protein per day, my cognitive function improved a lot in these past 100 days. I became more mentally stable and stronger, my mood improved, my gut responded positively and suddenly the things that haunted me were no longer so big. I never thought that mental health and animal protein had any connection, but I was very surprised to discover that eating meat (or not) influences our mind.

4. mental healthcare and intrusive thoughts

Well, I studied psychology, but it was a theory that didn't deal with intrusive thoughts. In these 100 days I discovered this term and delved deep enough to understand that we all have intrusive thoughts. Neurotypicals deal with them better, while neurodivergents deal with them much worse. Unfortunately, I suffered a lot with these thoughts and suffered even more trying to understand why this was happening in my head. If you suffer from intrusive thoughts, start by understanding that they are not real and that they do not come from you consciously. An intrusive thought is something that crosses your mind and is similar to a scary radio station that you accidentally connected to. It does not belong to you. I learned to think (and I like this theory) that this is a way for the brain to prepare itself for various possibilities, even the most absurd and impossible ones. We are animals and our body wants to survive, so I understand that the brain explores various probabilities to always be prepared, no matter what happens. Of course, for anxious and depressed people this has the opposite effect and makes us want to die. Over time, you learn that you can’t control when these thoughts appear, but you can control how much power you give them. I deal with obsessive intrusive thoughts every day, but each day I’m becoming more and more able to not get emotionally involved with them. “It’s just a glitch in my brain,” I think, taking a deep breath.

5. mental healthcare and joy (which is worth more than solving problems)

I've always had a very fast-paced mind, cluttered with things and addicted to solving problems. In recent years I thought I should focus more on relaxing and opening up spaces in my mind, but I discovered that an empty mind can be treacherous for neurodivergent people. Our mind is, in fact, addicted to solving problems. That's how our species evolved and prospered. Our mind has an organizational structure that seeks, through connections and associations, to process past and future events, resolve pending issues and find solutions for what was left behind. We do this with everything, even with things that are not in our control. I spent a lot of my life trying to solve what was going on in my head and I was unsuccessful because I wasn't the one who created this situation. Although solving problems is a pattern of the mind, it is a sweet illusion. Many things are not actually solved, we only think they are. I discovered that the time I invested trying to solve mental problems that I did not create could be used to create happier foundations to strengthen myself. I learned that it is actually joy that heals, not obsessively thinking about the problem until it is solved. Every time I focused my energy on doing something good, laughing or contemplating nature, I became a little stronger and remembered who I am. I won't deny that I felt guilty - the cognitive rigidity of autism screamed at me that I was ignoring my problems and that I was creating a silly fantasy world. Even so, I fought to break out of this pattern. It is still difficult. But today I believe that I’m meant to be happy and that cultivating moments of joy makes life worthwhile.

6. mental healthcare and feeling useful

Feeling useful is essential for mental health. We all want to be part of something and be recognized as necessary. In these 100 days, I decided to resume some volunteer work within my community and I also opened a new company, with handmade products, so that I would also have the opportunity to produce something that was not only in the intellectual field (handicrafts are very good for those who suffer from anxiety). Having a dynamic routine in which you have an important role is great for mental health and your sense of self-authority. Also, getting in touch with other people's personal stories helps to decentralize our gaze from ourselves, which is very useful if you suffer from OCD. As tiring as it may be, the more diverse activities we do, the better our cognitive function becomes.

7. mental healthcare and moving the body

It's interesting that to take care of your mind, you need to get out of your head and move your body. Many of the tensions accumulated in our minds can be released by running, walking or playing some sport. It doesn't matter what it is, but move your body. We were not designed to stay still, but to do various strength, balance and endurance exercises. Our ancestors walked for days in search of shelter and food, and that's how our bodies evolved. Especially for those who suffer from anxiety, high-impact exercises not only help regulate your mood and release neurotransmitters, but also generate a stress spike that will do your body good for the rest of the day. When we trigger these spikes, our body answer quickly and creates new pathways to respond to stress, which helps us better deal with anxiety, depression, instructive thoughts, etc. Our sleep also improves, as we use our stored energy and tend to think less before going to sleep.

8. mental healthcare and sleep hygiene

I have always tried to force myself to be silent. I forced myself to meditate for many years, without much success, but after the panic attacks returned, meditating and being silent were torture. It was as if I made room for all my inner demons to dance in my mind and I always felt worse. I recently discovered that neurodivergent people struggle more with silence and that it does them a lot of good to distract their minds with sounds, images and other stimuli that allow them to emotionally engage with something real and outside of themselves. I see that it is a controversial topic, but I no longer believe in sleep hygiene without screens and complex content. My best nights of sleep were those in which I distracted myself with something until I fell asleep or listened to someone talking until I fell asleep. So if you want to test what works best for you, know your limits and do not blindly obey the orders that someone has set. Maybe you work better at dawn, maybe you only need 6 hours of sleep, maybe you are different from the average. Your life's work is to discover yourself and be true to it.

9. mental healthcare and developing self-authority

This was very important to me. I have always had low self-esteem and I have always believed in others more than in myself. I sought answers and cures for what I suffered from various doctors and therapists, but all of this only made my situation worse. I became dependent on diagnoses, consultations and sessions that never really helped me. At a certain point I decided that I would educate myself on the subjects that bothered me. I studied, and studied a lot, about psychology, neurology, neuroscience, nutrition and about the functioning of the body as a whole. Today I no longer accept any diagnosis about myself because I have developed my own authority. I am the authority when it comes to myself, you know? I don't need others to tell me what I am feeling because now I know what it is and where it comes from. I also know, fortunately, how to solve it. When I go to a doctor or have an exam, I know what I am investigating and what I need to achieve. It is very sad that today medicine is just a search for money and that you only get good care if you pay a lot for it, so it is important to get educated about yourself so you won’t fall into standardized speeches that will lead you to the ever-increasing consumption of pharmaceuticals and drugs without, in fact, looking at the cause of the problem.

10. mental healthcare and time

There are things that only time can heal. There is nothing like letting time pass. A few months ago, all I could think about was how I wanted to end my life and it was tormenting to think about living for even one more day. Waiting for time to pass was difficult, but I was rewarded. Time has a way of overcoming some things if you allow yourself to create new memories, new connections and new laughs. If you are suffering a lot, wait a few more hours. Live one more day. Let time pass and life bring you better things.

See you guys again on my next challenge (maybe a productivity one?). Thanks to everyone who liked and reblogged my previous posts! 💕

[apolline-lucy]

POV: you’re on a date in a coffee shop in seoul with your favourite fictional queer character. she’s a liar, but one thing that’s true is that she’s obsessed with you.

THE ANATOMY OF DYING

[tea-tuesday]

11/16/2023

omg i've been gone for so long.. after my internship ended, i did nothing for a week aside from small assignments for class. although my semester technically doesn't end until mid-december, i'm leaving for europe in two weeks so i need to get everything done before then !!! i only have two things to do but they are HUGE ! i need to finish the draft of my 30-page paper by thanksgiving and study for the state bar (which i'm planning to take while i'm on vacation😖). anywho, here are some pics of what i've been up to..

[the---hermit]

I am obsessed with the storygraph's monthly wrap ups!!

01|10|2024

Happy October! Autumn is slowly getting here, and I am so happy about it. Today I continued reading for my history of the Sabaudian states class, and I continued writing down notes for everything I read. I am finally done with the first half of the first part of the book so I am 1/6 into the biggest section of my overall materials for this exam. I kinda want to email the professor to ask for more informations on some things I read, but I decided I might wait one I am finally done reading the whole book, so if I have more questions I can just send them all to her. It's not really something I do often, but many professors who hold small classes encourage you to do so, so maybe I will in a few weeks once I am done with the book.

productivity list:

read in the morning

finished reading and writing notes for the first half of part 1 of the book I am studying

duolingo

📖: What Fiests At Night by T. Kingfisher

🎵: Re:dracula (I haven't mentioned it in a while but I love it so much, and this is the time of year when we get one hour episodes and they are so good. The voice actirs are incredible, if you haven't yet you need to listen to it, it's such a great way to experience this story)

[study-diaries]

It's okay to be bad at something new. Normalize people who want to keep trying without them feeling ashamed for being bad at it.

[studywithvictory]

*old man voice* back in my day, studyblrs would like and reblog posts and there wouldn't be any 0 note posts.

[oi4v]

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The Fall Slump

During the colder seasons, you may experience a slump or bout of depression and it is really hard. I get hit the hardest this time of year and there is things I learned really helped me got on track. Recently I started a winter arc and was really productive for 2 weeks straight. Just straight productivity until yesterday. Here Are Things I Learned

Take Breaks - breaks are not that bad. You have to be mindful of how long of a break you have and make sure you work extra hard after it. Breaks can help you cool down and really ground yourself if you do self care. Reward yourself - Days are tough, having a self routine is crucial. Make a Dopamine Menu or start something that really unwinds you. I feel like an extra cup of water, mindful journaling, and analyzing good influences really energize me. I love watching vloggers who are trying to improve their lives because I want to be like that. Push yourself - Discipline is key and even if we may not want it. We can stop for a bit but we ALWAYS have to get back up. You cannot change your situation if you sit there; YOU are in charge of your future and you have to take it in your consideration. Reflect on yourself - Are your goals reasonable? Are they too pushy? Sometimes we create something that is too hard. Get this- your goals aren't unachievable, it is the way you proceed with it. You can't just force yourself on a calorie deficit; you have to ease yourself. Same with a workout routine-- we are going for slight discomfort. As we get going we can up our standards. We have to have high standards for ourselves but they MUST be reachable.

Times are really hard for us but we have to keep pushing through. Sometimes we have to think back and see if we are doing everything in a healthy manner. Is this how we truly want our lives to be? Does it bring me joy? It may not in your current attitude but is it healthy for our bodies and is it morally good for us. Slumps take a lot to get out of and it is okay to ask for support and resources. We will get better.

[emrehazar]

Nowadays I'm following Nathan Fowkes' Pictorial Composition class.

In my previous studies, I couldn't go beyond the masterpaintings' composition piece, but now this class challenges me to create my own imaginative scenes, and that's a good thing.

Of course, at the beginning, we did the composition works of the masterpaintings again, but all the works I did later are original pieces.

I more or less understood how to combine values and use contrasts to my detriment. I made it to the 5th lesson. 5th lesson, I need to make an original finished painting.

I'll share it in my next post.Feel free to visit my profile to discover what I'll be sharing and more @emrehazar

[chu-diaries]

100 days of mental healthcare: day 67/100

It was a lovely day. I woke up early and had a slow breakfast, then I cooked lunch and did laundry. After lunch I cleaned my kitchen, did dishes and cleaned my oven. I still had some time until the sunset so I planned a picnic! I went to a farm near my house and bought some Camembert, cinnamon bread and kombucha. It was really nice to walk around the olive trees. I felt relaxed and happy.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my self knowledge as something that is part of my mental health. As a people-pleaser I realized I’ve been wearing a lot of masks to keep myself socially safe. I really want to remember who I really am so I asked ChatGPT to come up with 40 questions about myself for me to answer in the remaining days of this challenge.

💥: day 14/28 (ovulation day!)

💧: 1 L

🏋🏻‍♀️: 🚫

🏃🏻‍♀️: 🚫

📝: 🚫

🎧: coroa de marabô - aldeia de caboclos

🎮: 🚫

📺: one piece ep. 404-415

📚: hp and the half blood prince

🛑: 8 days pick-free

💊: 🚫

[galina]

Last poetry of the year. So much love crammed into a small space