•Believe You Can•

big fan of the new apartment so far

Happy Pride Moth, you beeautiful individuals!

benson

I was in a DBT program for a little over a year, and when I would text my therapist about self-harm urges and suicidal ideation, she would tell me this: “Maybe we can let the thoughts just be thoughts. Maybe you don’t have to act on them, they can just exist in your mind.” And as much as I hated to hear that then, here I am two years later, reminding myself and others of the same thing. It’s okay to have thoughts. It’s okay if you have thoughts of restricting or purging or bingeing. It’s okay if you have thoughts of self-harm or suicidal ideation. It’s okay if you have nasty intrusive thoughts. Thoughts alone can do no harm. It’s when you act on the thoughts that it becomes an issue. But you don’t have to act. You have the power to choose. And you can choose to let the thoughts just be thoughts.