Your self-care monster

I’M NOT FOURTEEN!!!!!!

And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.

Unemployed stint? Go Outside. Sick? Go Outside. Etc.

Because even 5 minutes Outside helps me remember that there is an Outside. When I don't Go Outside (ideally once per day minimum), my world shrinks to the house, then the areas I actually use, then my bedroom, then my bed, then me.

If you've got clinical depression especially, try to find time to Go Outside. I've got some potted plants out back this year - gotta water em! The porch of the new place is actually pretty nice - morning coffee when the weather isn't abominable counts as Going Outside. I try to go to the library every weekend, take a walk, etc. etc. etc.

this rest of the thread continues after the third tweet from the reblog.

like THE FULL THREAD is genuinely so reassuring.

sometimes, it is not enough to just know, sometimes you might need that reassurance of "do you really think of me when i'm away?" and someone reassuring you that yeah, they do. and evaluate that! trust that! just like op did.

and then learning that ykw, it's NOT any of my business really. and finding comfort in that trust that like. whether they are or aren't thinking of me, they really do love me.

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself