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It’s summer, it’s hot, where do you want to be?? The deep sea babbyyyy We teamed up with Philly Spooky Guy Illustrator Sam Heimer to create a firefly squid shirt with a message: protect the ocean... OR ELSE!

You can get ‘em at SquidFacts.Net. The beautiful and enigmatic firefly squid arrives to shallow water off the West Coast of Japan in Spring, engages in a mating bonanza, and then leave the seas for the next generation. They are brightly bioluminescent, so **this shirt glows too***!!! The back of the shirts have a list of actions people can take to protect the ocean.

Get one at SquidFacts.net

Drink some water.

Move your body around some if you are able. (Don’t overdo it.)

Think of at least three things you like about yourself. They don’t have to be big things.

If you can get out under that bright shiny ball of fire in the sky for a bit without fucking yourself up, try and do that for a little bit.

That shit you keep meaning to do? Appointments, shopping, whatever? Try to get through at least one step of it. You’ll feel like a fucking superhero.

Reward yourself by doing something that makes you happy. If nothing can make you happy today, try something that USUALLY makes you happy. Watch a Star War or meme something or whatever normally gets your rocks off.

Counting your own breaths while imagining yourself in the most peaceful fucking place you can think of is a great way to calm down if you’re able to focus enough to do so.

Is your mood shitty? I’m sorry to hear that, friend, and I hope you feel better soon, but that’s no excuse to be shitty to other people, dig? If you’re shitty to someone who didn’t deserve it, fucking apologize. Mental illness might be the reason you went off, but it’s not an excuse.

If you didn’t/couldn’t do some or any of the above today, there’s always tomorrow.

we have to write poems in my creative writing certificate program, so I pieced something together from Belphie's medical reports

i've read a lot of literature that tackles eating disorders and body dysmorphia. but one of the most triggering things i've ever read was a fic in which one of the characters was very thin, and the narrator was constantly waxing lyrical about how beautiful his thinness was - describing his prominent ribs, his delicate collarbones, his tiny wrists, how frail and breakable he looked, how small his waist was. at one point the love interest casually said he'd break up with him if he ever got fat and it was just skimmed over as a cute bit of banter, like that's not a completely insane thing to say even as a joke.

if the character had been overweight this would have absolutely been classed as a fetish fic. but it wasn't. it had tens of thousands of hits - it was one of the most popular works in that fandom. someone in the comments requested that some content warnings be added, as they had an ED and had found it distressing to read. they were ignored. the fic stayed untagged.

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I went from consuming NO caffeine, to slowly escalating to around 150-300mg of caffeine a day to keep up with sleep issues, to suddenly stopping cold turkey when I flew out to the middle of nowhere and couldn’t get more and it was straight up a solid 5-6 days of thinking I had the flu

Nausea, spins, major fatigue, and some seriously heinous headaches

It was so bad that after two weeks without I swore I’d never pick up an energy drink again and made an appointment with a doctor to fix my sleep issues

Caffeine is a

Drug

And don't get me wrong, I love drugs. I think they're rad. I think there should be fewer barriers between most drugs and adults using them.

However, something that I think is fundamentally immoral is giving someone a drug without telling them:

That it's a drug

What the full possible effects of the drug are including side effects

What the withdrawal effects are like

And society treats caffeine like it's not a drug. We act like it's not a stimulant. We sell it on street corners. We sell in schools, to children.

We don't tell you what the withdrawals are like. We don't even acknowledge that there will be any, even though they can be severe.

In addition to what OP listed, other possible withdrawal symptoms include:

Hand Tremors

Anxiety

Irritability

Brain Fog

Low Mood

Insomnia (yes, counterintuitive as it may seem this is common withdrawal symptom)

Muscle Pain/Stiffness

Caffeine is a stimulant drug that causes physical dependency quite rapidly. The withdrawal symptoms can persist for days to months.