mentally in 2015

“One of my first encounters with this perception that food could be addictive was early in my career. An acquaintance of mine had struggled with the belief that she couldn’t be trusted with certain types of foods. As such, she innocently thought not allowing these foods in her home would help her son develop a healthier relationship with the foods than she had. As her son grew older, however, I witnessed him sneak and frantically eat these foods when his parents weren’t around. The efforts to restrain his eating and desire for those foods backfired. This was not an issue of food addiction. It was a case of restricted exposure.

It’s pretty sad. And achingly familiar.

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

A List of things that will actually Help your Anxiety!!

✭ Limit how much news you consume in the morning. Seriously. starting your day with everything that's wrong with the world before you've even eaten anything is not helping you, it's just making you feel guilty for being okay when everything isn't

✭ When you feel a spiral starting, name it out loud. Literally say "i'm spiraling right now." Sounds stupid, works anyway. It moves the experience from your emotional brain to your logical brain and interrupts the loop

✭ Stop googling your symptoms. I mean it. Whatever you have it's either nothing or the worst possible thing according to the internet and neither outcome is going to make you feel better

✭ Drink water before you catastrophize. I know. I know. but dehydration genuinely mimics anxiety symptoms and you might just be thirsty

✭ Reply to the message. the longer you leave it the bigger it gets in your head. it's never as bad as the version you've been imagining for four days

✭ Move your body in a way that doesn't feel like punishment. not to lose weight, not to be more productive. Just because your nervous system needs somewhere to put all that energy

1. Do not do age verification.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!