Progress not perfection

I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.

Idk what person with chronic illness needs to hear this, but you can do things to make your responsibilities nicer for yourself. You can get an ice cream after a blood draw. You can sit down for tv time after an injection. You can pick out the bandaids that have cartoon characters on them instead of the plain ones. Being an adult doesn’t stop you from benefiting from encouragement. Go for whatever fits with your routine/abilities/budget and makes life a little better. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down etc etc

Rereading this on my sick days 🙏🏽

... so if you have a loved one with a chronic illness maybe go easy on them if they're like this permanently it's not their fault

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

“ur overthinking this” bro I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available

crazy how some of you are "thought crimes arent real!" until someone with a disorder that revolves around intrusive thoughts exists and suddenly we're the devil reincarnated for having thoughts we can't control but don't act on

im suuuuuper tired. i think ill stay up for another 5-24 hours

sometimes i wonder if the anti psych movement will gain similar traction as other well-known human rights movements over the 20th and 21st century. like will i live to see the average person recognize how fucked up the mental health system is? will we one day see real collective societal pushback against the systemic abuse that psychiatrized people endure? much to think about