aliens have spoke to me and shown me how to see

Please dont forget addicts when youre advocating for people with highly stigmatized mental illnesses. Addiction is a disorder and it deserves just as much visibility, acceptance and support as any other stigmatized mental illness.

For my friends struggling with addiction and mental illness

[ID: A photo of a man enthusiastically pointing at a sign. The sign reads: Relapses don’t erase progress. Progress is not linear! ]

so what if you’re not the best? you’re better than you were yesterday

People will be all "you should take a shower/drink water/eat" like they're reinventing the wheel of self care - and I'm sorry but the issue at hand isn't that I haven't heard of basic hygiene, water or food, it's that my illness is getting in the way. I know I should eat, drink water and take a shower. I'm actually very familiar with the concept. That's not to say no one needs the reminder, but PLEASE give me some actual tips on how to push through anxiety, executive dysfunction and other disabling mental illness symptoms instead of just telling me what I already know I'm supposed to be doing.

Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”

Oh no, they do that too.

I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to. 

Sounds like a great set-up for a murder

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky