little ghoul

This is so, so important. The way adults react to a child’s passions and ambitions can often shape the way the child sees themselves. It’s crucial to encourage them wholeheartedly, especially if the child is prone to beat themselves up about the little things anyway.

Therapists are just…. Common sense filters

Therapists finding loopholes for mental illness things is one of my favorite things about dealing with mental illness because it really helps me understand that just because a reaction is Common doesn’t mean it’s Right. Does doing dishes stress you out a lot? Buy paper plates. Do your obsessive thoughts make you worry about leaving your curling iron on so you drive home from work to check? Just put the curling iron in your purse and bring it to work with you while we work on tackling where this worry comes from. Symptom management doesn’t have to look like drudgery.

That adhd feel when you’re doing a Thing and get distracted and do a different Thing but then through neglect you ruin the first Thing

Shout out to ND people taking GCSEs, A-Levels, IB exams and High School exams at this time of year; I remember it’s hard as heck but you’ll make it through no matter what happens! Crush it!

If depression was a musical

This is a bop

okay but this person’s comedic timing is insane