ring the bells / that still can ring

how much of ur online presence is performative and how much is it u being u

baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer

It is so fucking exhausting fighting your brain every day dude

what i’ve learned in my life is if someone is treating you poorly and youre asking yourself “what magic words can I use to make this person treat me with basic respect,” those words don’t exist and they never will.

vampirism is about how fucking impossible it is that you have to eat every fucking day or else

there is a pain inside me so stupid that i'm not going to communicate it to anyone

i know it's been said on here and said again but people do so desperately need to genuinely do intentional work to build distress tolerance and start figuring out how to recognize the differences between danger, discomfort, and when a situation that is merely uncomfortable is triggering an emotional flashback in your bodies because it resembles a past situation that actually was dangerous which makes it difficult to realize/believe that this moment is merely uncomfortable.

They should invent a cry for help that has zero negative effects on anybody and also that makes everyone treat you like a little animal in a cardboard box. But everyone’s cool with it because you’re a cute little animal and not an adult human that needs to get their shit together to stay alive

having a headache while hydrated is so unfair. you were supposed to protect me.

you can experience life altering devastating emotion and then your cat will throw up next to you & look at you like does this help ?

Is there a word for occupying the space where normies think you're a freak and freaks think you're a normie?

kind of embarrasing when your life is actually going pretty well but you still have mental health problems. it's like when you drink water but still have a headache like what the hell. you're telling me this isn't because of the Situations i'm actually just like this. i want a refund.

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

it's not frequent enough to be considered a meme or a trend, but I like how every so often this site gets a new "woke mafia boss" variation.

being neurodivergent and having a contentious relationship with your own discomfort will have you in your thirties having basic ass baby revelations like "oh, I feel bad when I'm going to do a thing that causes me pain. and I feel more calm when I'm not in pain or about to experience pain."

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.