I'm Mister Ten Below

1. Recognise that panic attacks are a mind state and not a physical risk. A panic attack can be a very frightening and uncomfortable experience. However, it doesn’t indicate a real physical risk – even although it feels that way.

2. Try to grasp that you are not alone. Panic attacks are relatively common. They’re an anxiety disorder that many other people share.

3. Understand what panic is. Panic is excess adrenaline running through your body when it is confronted with a possible life-threatening situation. It can also be triggered by something that reminds you of a threatening event in your past. Feelings of panic can be very scary, but the feelings are related to your past – not to a threat in the present. Even although you feel terrified, you are not in any real danger.

4. Go and see a doctor or counsellor. Sometimes people find anti-anxiety medication helps them cope with panic attacks. However, identifying the psychological root – and then getting help in dealing with that – is the most effective treatment approach.

5. Let others close to you know that you suffer from panic attacks. People who have never experienced a panic attack may find it hard to understand what you are going through. However, you can help them with this by sharing your difficult experiences with them. In fact, many people want to help those they love – but they don’t know what to say or do. Thus, if you can be more open with them, then they can reach out and offer you support.

6. Don’t avoid those situations which have led to a panic attack in the past. Avoidance will only ‘reinforce’ the disorder … So the more you avoid the dreaded situation the more panic the avoided situation generates. Should a panic attack occur, don’t attempt to fight the feelings. Instead, allow the feelings to wash over you … and then drain away. Focus on staying in the present moment.

Just create.

Just put pencil to paper, fingers to keyboard, brush to canvas, and go create something that didn’t exist before. 

Set yourself free of the expectations of quality work. Make something and allow yourself to experiment with new methods and techniques. Have fun with it. If it’s dumb, laugh. If it’s weird, make it weirder. If it’s a disjointed mess, smile at the chaos. 

I think when artists stop being beginners and start to grasp the form on a deeper level, they often forget how to have fun because they’re too caught up in the expectations they’ve set for themselves and their art. Instead of feeling passion pouring from their heart, they feel dismay and frustration. 

I’m not really sure how to describe the differences other than use this graphic(i definitely didn’t find by searching futch scale)

i want to give all of you something to keep in mind:

your noses are all flawless, regardless if they’re “european looking” or not.

don’t listen to people who have no judgement over your body. your body, your rules. period.

if you want to lose/gain weight, go for it. no one should tell you how you’re supposed to look except you.

don’t take shit from boys, especially backwards middle eastern boys who expect you to basically bow down to them. they are assholes who will never deserve your lovely attention.

lift up your fellow sisters, iranian or not. women are stronger together than they are apart.

it’s going to be hard to love yourself after being conditioned in a culture that criticizes everything you are and that’s okay. it’s okay and it will get better as you develop into a more beautiful woman every day.

challenge the culture we’ve got that expects women to be subservient to men. it’s a new era, we don’t have time for that backwards thinking. ignore the men who lose their chill, and continue to defy what they expect you to be.

YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL REGARDLESS OF WHAT ANYONE SAYS

ignore the white people who’re simply jealous of your full lips, radiant eyes, voluminous hair, and lovely skin. they’ll never have what you’ve so flawlessly got.

curves or no curves, you have a body that’s been perfected over and over again for thousands of years. 

my darker skinned girls: you have skin that defies the sun; don’t let anyone tell you you’d look better if your skin was lighter

my more european-looking girls: protect our darker skinned sisters because they don’t deserve to be put down simply because they don’t have a whiter complexion. we are all equally beautiful because of who we are, not because of what we look like.

your eyes, regardless of how dark or how light, are perhaps the most gorgeous thing about you. 

reform the negatives of our culture that uphold body-shaming, eating disorders, hatred towards the LGBTQ+ community, blatant racism/colorism, etc. 

•Trans Iranian girls are still valid Iranian girls!!!! Fuck off TERFs!!!!!

Zadie Smith, “That Crafty Feeling,”

Changing my Mind: Occasional Essays

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THANK YOU MOM

punched Draco Malfoy in the nose for being an idiot 

purposefully performed a confundus charm on whatshsface WHILE HE WAS FLYING just so Ron would win (omfg that is so fucking dangerous) 

literally pulled a fucking Bourne Identity on her parents and managed to set them up in fucking Australia (jesus christ she literally made it so that she NEVER EXISTED wtf that’s so fucking 007)

Convinced the Ministry of Magic to give her an incredibly dangerous and volatile device that allowed her to ALTER TIMELINES COMPLETELY (just because she was so smart, literally, that is the reason, her “potential”) 

Has enough basic survival skills and badass magic to literally disappear to the middle of nowhere and flourish AND figure out Voldemort’s plot with Harry 

Hermione also figures out not only what Voldemort’s plan is, but generally how to beat it, WAY BEFORE VOLDEMORT EVER DOES. Why? because she is just that much smarter and better at magic than everybody else