#celestiallight

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Happy 1st of June all. Sunbeams and celestial light at Silver Street Farm. As sunlight filters through the trees, it hits a clump of fennel, giving it star status on the camomile mound.

⚡ MYTH vs FACT ⚡ ❌ Myth: Simba Capeman was born with his powers. ✅ Fact: Simba’s powers awakened after the Celestial Light chose him as its Guardian. 🌌✨

Destiny didn’t gift him power — it tested him first. 💫 🔥 The legend of Simba Capeman is just beginning...

Hello there, beautiful!

There are certain mentalillnesses which can really get in your way of driving, andderealization/depersonalization is one of them. If you are diagnosed with amental disorder that severely affects how you drive, you are required to reportit to your licensing agency. I know that you may want to drive, but you can beputting yourself and others in danger for driving whiledepersonalizaed/derealized. Those with dissociation disorders are normally notallowed to drive, because the nature of the disorder, you don’t always knowwhen you will dissociate. However, laws range from country/state/province, socheck with your local licensing agency for more information.

I know you may want todrive, and I really get that! I have my learner’s permit too, and I can’t waitto drive. But, my anxiety makes it really difficult to the point where Isometimes start hyperventilating and having an anxiety attack over driving. I stillwant to drive, and I’m allowed too, but whenever I feel as if I can’t drive, Idon’t. If I start having a panic/anxiety attack while driving, I will pull overto the side of the road or find somewhere to park because I am a danger tomyself and others in that situation. If you do decide to drive, keep in mindthat if you ever find yourself getting depersonalized/derealized, you canalways pull over to the side of the road and ground yourself using groundingtechniques and resume driving when you feel grounded enough.

If you get toodepersonalized/derealized to drive and/or your episodes happen too often todrive, then maybe you shouldn’t drive. I know that can be hard to hear, butlike you said, you want to make sure you are safe for yourself and others whenyou are driving. Your mental illness does not define you, but there are timeswhen it gets in your way, and it is completely okay to acknowledge that. I commendyou for realizing that there’s a problem and asking us about it, because that’sreally difficult to do.

No one said that youHAVE to drive. One of my best friends has a dissociative disorder and she’s notallowed to drive, and she’s 23 and gets around fine. Granted, she does live ina major city, so it’s very easy to get public transportation, but there areoptions if you can’t drive. There’s no problem with family members or friendsdriving you around. Buses and taxis exist for a reason. You can even use trainsor planes for long distances, and you can always walk for a short distance ifyou feel comfortable doing so.

If you want to chat withothers about this, you can always try our live chat, a web counsellor, or ahelpline. We also have a venting group on dissociation run by the amazing Marleen on Fridays if you are interested!

It’s completely okay foryou not to drive if you don’t feel comfortable or safe doing so. It’s all up toyou and the rules of your local licensing agency. You are not useless or weirdfor not driving, if you might be thinking that. A lot of people don’t drive,and that’s okay. <3

I believe in you,

Hi darling,

I’m sorryto hear you had such a bad experience and that it’s still bothering you somuch! That must be very difficult to deal with. I think the reason that youhaven’t stopped thinking about it is because there’s still a big part of thisthat’s bothering you. If you learn to come to terms with that, then you’ll alsofind that you’ll think about it less.

You say youare thinking about it in a contemplative way, what exactly are you contemplating?Does it have something to do with why you did it, how you did it, when you did,whom you did it with? I think it’s important to try and keep in mind that nomatter why, how, when or with whom you did it, it happened. It happened and itwas a really bad experience for you, which means that it’s not very likely you’llever do it again. It happened and it’s something that you can learn to dealwith. What is thinking about it doing for you? Will it change what happened?No. Will you find out more about why exactly you did it? Maybe. But why doesthe reason for it matter? Maybe a big part of this, is that you’re blamingyourself for it? I don’t know, this is just a very random suggestion! Butplease do feel free to get back to me about this. I want to help you figure outwhy you’re still thinking so much about it, so that you can work on that andbecause of that start thinking less about it.

Sometimes what seems impossible is just hard.

Keepfighting beautiful <3

Hi lovely :)

I just had a look for you and we do have your ask in theinbox! I’m so incredibly sorry about the wait, we’re really backed up at themoment so it’s taking us quite a while to get through everything! Your ask isalmost at the bottom of the inbox now though, so it should be answered reallysoon!

To check if we have your ask in the future, as long as you’veused a tag, you can take a look at our tag list here!

I hope you’re doing okay!Keep fighting!

Take care and lots of love,