i get so frustrated with ppl who wont just fucking help themselvessss. obviously theres a spectrum of pain and subsequent ability when it comes to mental illness but ive known so many people specifically gay people who let themselves live in squalor all while going to therapy taking medication and claiming to take care of themselves. thats the thing self care is NOT doing nothing, self care is actually doing the dishes sorry. its taking the trash out. calling the doctor and making an appointment. being an ADULT. i live with two people in their mid to late 20s who only do a chore once every few weeks and if i ever deign to bring it up i get either aggressive or apologetic responses about depression and struggle. as if im not constantly struggling. i force myself to do things bc they make me feel better… me and you are not all that different. ignoring your human life maintenance or outsourcing it to other ppl is the biggest form of self harm thats become normalized in certain communities
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so i "did nothing" today of what i had planned (groceries, 'mental health walk') but i also :
- did the laundry
- put away the dry cloth of the previous laundry run
- waxed (which i wanted to do yesterday so i'm glad i did it now)
- practiced my instrument (twas not great as it was a bit mindless, but i finally found the source of one recent sound problem)
- washed my hair
- did a little callisthenics
- downloaded some songs to begin making a collection
- learned that even if i'm not feeling it, putting the right song WILL give me the energy necessary to do the thing. i do not need to want to hear the sound for it to work.
so even if i didn't do a "specific activity" outside i still did things and that's good !
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No matter how much Man-Bat may like you, he's still very much a wild animal at heart and capable of turning on even his best friend should they stand between him and food or worse, between him and Francine. She is the only person he refuses to harm under any circumstance, making it wise to tread carefully whenever his ex-wife is involved.
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I am definitely behind on my writing schedule. It has just been one thing after another this week for me and it's taken all my free time. So I haven't gotten to make as much progress as I'd like.
But this weekend is looking good to get caught up a little.
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I hate saying this but I’m genuinely so mentally checked out of school right now and I hate it so fucking bad bc it makes doing even the simplest tasks so fucking difficult. I’m loving my mythology class bc it’s what I love to learn about but everything else feels so hard and heavy and burdensome. I have less than a month left but good lordt everything just feels so overwhelming and like I can’t keep up or retain anything and I hate it
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h...how is the next chapter doing? 👉👈
i've got written a single word since i posted the last chapter, BUT the next chapter already has 7k+ of content and is mostly planned out so when I do sit to write it out it'll come fast, don't you worry <3 (i've got a busy weekend ahead of me but I want to get back to writing next week!!)
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just barely holding back from screaming at my roommate and girlfriend for the smallest pettiest non-transgression (no one unloaded the dishwasher or took out the trash while i was at work) #bpdbaddie
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Menstrual pain should be taken more seriously than it currently is, people suffering from it shouldn't be dismissed or accused of overreacting because "it's just a period"
For most of my life, I've suffered from debilitating menstrual cramps. Some days it was bad enough that I couldn't move, couldn't even speak, just cry and scream for hours until the painkillers finally kicked in, and it'd often leave me feeling weak, exhausted and like I was on the verge of passing out. I have to take the strongest non-prescription medication on the market and it still just makes my pain bearable enough that I can function; hell, even my prescription drugs sometimes weren't enough.
Despite this, I was often ridiculed by my peers and accused of faking it so I can get out of school or work, and I've had medical professionals refuse to help me because "it's just a period" and "it'll pass on its own". I've had to beg people to go get me painkillers and they'd usually start an argument or roll their eyes at me and complain the entire time. It was a constant problem and the only person that's ever taken my pain seriously was my mother.
Seriously, it isn't right that I have to deal with 2-3 days of debilitating pain and nobody around me treats it seriously. Not even my doctors.
And I'm not even the most severe case out there, I'm lucky that my cramps only last a max of 3 days and respond to medications. There are people out there who have to deal with worse.
Seriously, just please start taking menstrual pain seriously. Just because it happens every month doesn't mean it's any more bearable or less serious than any other pain. The pain this severe isn't normal, it's a medical condition and it should be treated seriously. It's even more fucked up that this sort of pain is often a symptom of some underlying condition yet even doctors don't treat it seriously.
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