#skull needs therapy

[carlosisinyourwalls]

Hii!! can you draw skull from the daily object show? :]

Sure! There he is !!

#the daily object show #tdos #object show community #osc #skull needs therapy

[ioannemos]

oh lord an uncle i haven't seen since my mom's funeral (going on six years) and haven't like. actually talked to for a lot longer than that messaged me on fb... he and his wife "would love to talk and see how [i am] doing"

and my gut reaction is "bro you haven't given a shit about me for years, possibly decades, why tf are things different now"

BUT

is that true? maybe he's cared this whole time and just didn't know how to start the conversation. that side of the family's kind of a heinous mess. maybe i'm mistaking my depression-induced apathy for a mutual dislike. i mean i'm pretty sure i startled my grandma at my mom's funeral when i barely tolerated a hug from her (oh boy are there some unresolved issues there still) so like. does she love me in some way? i don't want to explore what that would be, given i'm the daughter of her unloved daughter and that's saying something bc my grandma always loved her boys more than her girls...

idk. real life is sticky and unpleasant and i'm having a Real Hard time of things and also tomorrow is my birthday and i... i'm really struggling. i want to... be somewhere else. like heaven.

#my skull is full of pins #i need THERAPY #ugh #augh #blech #please pray #personal #abbie needs a twitter #maybe instead of a dad tag i just need a 'my family is kind of a mess' tag. 'the ties that tangle.' 'blood is ickier than water' #(my sibs are exempt btw they have done nothing wrong ever 💖)

[petiolata]

Me, thinking about my therapy sessions: I gotta try and be less crazy during these 😒

#mental health #therapy #neurodivergent #neurodivergent problems #disability #op #personal #this may seem like an oxymoron but I'm serious #I need to focus more on productive things during therapy and do less insane-villain rants LOL #that or give up therapy and purchase an island shaped like a skull

[firebuug]

the stupid thing about anxiety that leans into straight up paranoia territory is that you can be weirdly paranoid and expectant of something terrible, worst case scenario ever to happen like, all the time, but since it's never happened to you you know it's unreasonable. but the moment one of the things you're crazy about actually happens, all those other extremely way more unreasonable things suddenly become plausible in your head by association, so now you're just on guard ALL the time. it's like throwing your anxiety a bone and because it was good that time and did a good job of preparing you for it now it's like ok! I will do this for everything else too and i will do a good job. but really it just needs to be put down

#in my case its like. i was highly paranoid of car incidents happening. but i was able to like. nap in a car comfortably cuz it never hapened #but i was ALSO unreasonably so paranoid about likr. inexplicably suddenly just getting a bullet to the skull. like out of nowhere anytime #so now that a terrifying car incident HAS happened to me now im like okay #im super high guard about that now and can barely close an eye in a vehicle without shaking. but. now that thats plausible. #whats saying im not gonna be sniped any moment any time while in public . who says. #i as a perosn know its exteemely unreasonable and sily especially considering where i live. but now that my anxiety has been fed #it's basically all gone downhill into insanity #anyways i need therapy but i dont have time energy or transportation. SLAYYYY!!!!!!!❗❗❗❗🫡 #txt #to detract this from myself therefore cancelling out any vulnerability on main: if i give an oc anxiety please know #it is this level of crawling up walls 'my head is going to blow off in five seconds and you need to shield me' bullshit and not 'oh no ppl.

[widevibratobitch]

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#another day another therapy session for a girl who has everything i could only ever dream of 🤡 #like i admit her family fucking sucks ngl #but idk if it's her being tone-deaf about this or if im just hypersensitive af on this topic but #'there's also this pressure to always be pretty and all' 'why tho like did your dad/mom ever comment on your looks?' #'well no haha not to be all braggy but there was never anything to comment on (negatively) yknow' #spoken to my face like oh right yeah well fuck me ig haha. once again reminded how different lives we live lol #and on top of this its this constant showing me that im being a bad friend to her which ig is true what with all my non responding to texts #but like. its like there is no real understanding towards me in turn. its like only she has problems and crippling mental issues #i dont call YOU out on your bullshit. i keep quiet and let you do and say whatever it is you need to make yourself feel better #even if it is actively capital H Hurting me and i come back home and end up sobbing in the pillow #and hating myself even more lol so cant you do the same and just take a deep breath and try to understand that i NEED a break sometimes #ANYWAY. #really feeling like scratching my face off my skull again

[theygender]

*checking the tracking information for my package from under a pile of overpriced teas and vitamins* this next herbal supplement will fix me

#g o d what is up with my brain thats been making everything so hard recently #like. im in a job that im MUCH happier with now and loving it. im no longer living a waking trauma nightmare as a call center sup #...why is my brain acting like im forcing it on a trek through fucking mordor just trying to get through a normal day at work #im on break from school. why am i not able to do any of the things that i wanted to do during the semester but was too busy for #why am i not able to do anything that i want to do and if i DO manage to do it why am i not able to enjoy it #why am i living like every moment of my life in fear that im wasting my time or doing something wrong or not good enough #and like i KNOW the answers are adhd and depression and anxiety #but my buddy. my pal. @ the wrinkly fleshy thing in my skull #im on 6 different psychiatric medications with a total of up to 11 individual pills per day. im actively in therapy and have been for years #and my life is currently much better than it maybe has ever been! WHY am i still struggling so hard 😭 #like i know recovery isnt a straight line and etc etc but like. it just feels like im doing everything im 'supposed' to do so what gives #so. gonna start drinking more plants i guess and see if that helps. im already on some that seem to help but i think i need more now #bc im having a bad time in my brain prison tbh :( #im not even like upset typing all this out either im just like. bewildered. incredulous. exhausted #lets hope this new overpriced tea fixes me i guess #rambling

[ectogeranium]

I might just be having an episode, but I’m currently figuring out the tattoos I want, and the placements >:3

#who needs therapy when you can finally figure out how you wanna ink your body?? #okay.. so… here’s what I’m thinking #I still want Eddie Munson’s bat tattoo on my left arm #that’s a given #symmetrical soul eater moons on both sides of my collarbone #like… I can’t explain the area well but like.. underneath the bone and towards my shoulder? #idk if I’m explaining that right hgyjhhkuhkj #I want asura’s eyes in the middle of my collarbone #(yes ive hears how painful chest tats are. do I care? I might. but I don’t :3 ) #**heard #let’s see… I know I want a death the kid skull somewhere. I’ve considered it behind my ear but ehhhhhhhh idk on that one yet #hear me out… Midas from fortnite has this one tattoo of a skull with flowers and horns #HEAR ME OUT…. I ALSO want an unus annus tattoo on my left wrist…. #of the countdown timer saying 00:00:00…. #……what if I combined the two and put the zeros on the skull’s head and replaced the roses with lilies ??? 👀👀👀 #…I need to draw that hold on— #anyways #Spyro tattoo. I found art of a super cute ps1 styled Spyro head w sparx and if I ever have the balls to get it I’m gonna dm the artist #and ask if I can get it done #here’s the thing tho.. I don’t want colored tattoos.. and the Spyro ones are obviously colored… I’ll cross that bridge as I get closer— #I wanna get a matching one with Taty but we don’t know what we want yet #and about the symmetrical moons… I don’t want that ugly ass sun on my body jygjhbhjb #so…. two moons :3 #n e ways #that’s all I got so far. mwah

[icekingofhope]

….So guys I just found this new series

#mystery skulls #new fandom #mystery skulls arthur #trans arthur #This fucking boy needs therapy #mystery skulls fanart #arthur kingsmen #art #headcanon design #sketches

[stinkbeck]

there’s something wrong with me. i keep going to people for advice when i know they just don’t have the capacity 2 help me. like what the fuck is wrong with me

#i really really really have 2 get it through my fucking skull that just bc someone cares about what’s going on with me doesn’t mean they #should know. like people go seeking things they don’t have the ability to handle all the time. why is this new to me??? #i guess i felt like everyone was right + like hiding things from people was self-imposed so i wanted 2 be mature about things and be a #little more open + now i’m realizing i really wasn’t lying to myself. people legitimately can’t handle the things i need help with. #which honestly might make me even less mature than i was hoping lol. like 2 anguish over things nobody anguishes over is pretty stupid #but then like i go 2 therapy or something + it's like i'm just lying 2 the therapist so they don't feel bad when they can't help me #like i lay out my issues + then when they can't fix it i pretend 2 slowly get better #idk i'm just so fucking messed-up lol.

[timeisacephalopod]

Armchair diagnosis is a scourge and I say this because zero people diagnose people they like with mental illnesses, and when they diagnose people they hate they're always psycho/sociopaths or narcissists and I am begging people to understand why diagnosing exclusively people you hate with highly stigmatized mental illnesses simply because you don't like them is insanely ableist. If you'd never diagnose someone you love and respect as a narcissist then you shouldn't be throwing that label around as a way to scarlet letter people you don't like- that is not a symptom of mental illness. Not to mention zero people who do this are in any way qualified professionals in the mental health field either.

NDP or being a psycho/sociopath isn't shorthand for "Bad Person Disease" and the sooner people learn that the better.

#winters ramblings #and if you ARE a professional diagnosing random people you dont like online then return your qualifications #because you are sbit at your job and dangerous to your patients acting like that id NEVER accept therapy from someone #who was willing to start handing out diagnosis on TWITTER of all things #but everyone ELSE?? yall really need to stop pretending everyone you hate is a psychopath JUST because you hate them #thats not what a psychopath IS and being a psychopath isnt shorthand for being a bad person #ZERO mental illnesses are 'bad people disease' and everyone who armchair diagnoses people needs that hammered #through their thick fucking skulls because im tired of seeing it. even my mom does this sometimes #and i have to point out that no one in our family is qualified to diagnose anyone with anything and fitting a list of symptoms #on webmd doesnt mean shit and ALSO would you diagnose ME as a psychopath narcissist? no? then dont label anyone ekse like that #because when you do youre saying having those conditions makes you a Bad Person and thats absurd?? #psycho/sociopaths and narcissists arent bad people because they have those conditions. they CAN be bad people of course #but thats not due EXCLUSIVELY to their mental illness wtf stop fucking treating people like this

[valkyrietookmoved]

Now it's my turn to grill you about twisted wonderland dating options

Between Malleus and HiMERU?

And between Vil and Shu? 🎤

God... You had fun with this one didn't you ya devil /j

Though it pains my soul because I absolutely adore Himeru as a character I... I have to say Malleus. He's just... It's just like you said at the very least for now he's well mannered he shows he cares and cares deeply and yeah he's a bit awkward and doesn't really understand his own feelings well (and at the very least from some of his lines you can infer he's definetly lying to himself about some of them just to cope, at least imho) he doesn't really wear the same sort of mask Himeru constantly has to out on. I feel like while Malleus confusion about his own feelings might make it difficult to get closer to him he isn't actively putting up a wall (like himeru would do) and just by talking eventually he'd get used to it and would be able to express himself a bit more freely. Also he's chill I'd listen to him rant about gargoyles and grotesques and I'd accompany him to walk around decrepit and desolate ruins any day. We'll cross the bridges of "this means your royalty now" and "your life spans are wildly different how will you cope" when we get there... Probably.

*inhales*..... Okay the difficult one is now god you're evil. They're just... They're like different flavors of the same person god what am I going to do... (Also I love them both extremely how dare you make me chose). Okay so... After thinking a lot about this a lot (I got this ask while walking my dog about uh.... Two hours ago I've been thinking about it ever since), I think I have to say Vil. He might be a perfectionist but I feel like it's a lot more focused on himself unless his goal needs to include other people. Yes he's very strict but partially it's due to his responsibility as a house warden and I think that as long as he sees you're putting effort even if you don't reach the level he's at that's enough to kinda ease up on you and let some things slide. In the hand Shu's getting better but he still would be very much pushy about his ideas and he believes is perfect and if you don't reach a certain level I feel like he'll definetly jumo at you and I cannot deal with that. Also I feel Vil is a lot more outwardly affectionate and a lot more able to read other's emotional states and actually take it into account more than Shu has ever been unless they explode in his face. Also from a more "how would I survive this situation and get to a point where I can be more or less comfortable" point of view, I'm prone to crying even when I feel extreme levels of anger and I think Shu would need the raw power of dry anger to be able to drive a point home while I might be able to manipulate Vil into being nicer to me if I just end up crying in front of him sjdldjdosodkskd

Ask game

#this is why you're wrong #yes you're right #ash asks answers #korka 🩸 #enjoy I had fun thinking about this #i needed to be a bit evil at the end I feel like either of those two men would break my emotional state if I spend too much time with them #also I definitely hold some very /very/ different values of beauty to bith Shu and Vil #but I feel Vil would at least respect my point of view if I sound confident enough and show that I've spent a long time thinking about it #while Shu would just be like and I would have to play the card (upon my death) #or just end up in a screaming match and end up crying out if anger and frustration because it just doesn't get through his thick skull #I'm being very hard on Shu he can get ro be very sweet if we go by lines he says but I partially belive that's #1. because he's talking to the Producer so they don't actually see each other that often and soend that much time together #and 2. anzu is actually extremely hard working and actually productive and good at her job so that probably softens him up a lot more #and I am definetly not that so it would cause problems #WELL THAT GOT LONG EVEN IN THE TAGS OK IWKDDKKDKD #i still oove you Shu but by god you'd be such a nightmare to live alongside with #call me when you get some therapy and some more emotional stability <3

[anethum-etcetera]

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#i wish i had any fucking chill at all #i am so fucking aggressive about how i feel and i fucking hate it #every single part of me wants to break everything around me and scream and cry until my throat is raw #over literally nothing. #this time over stupid video game #once over an argument in my head #sometimes over a conversation going poorly #and instead of the catharsis of busting my knuckles and skull open and breaking my teeth on every object in a 10 ft radius #i break one thing i dont have the time or energy to fix right now. and feel like shit about it. #so now im sitting here writing this out and shaking like a fucking nervous mutt trying my best to...what exactly #minimize property damage #try to impose discipline #act like i have any control over how my body functions #the dumbest part of this is now i have a pretty decent idea on how to repair joycons and procontrollers and how to troubleshoot and #what bits need to fit with others and what specifically is annoying to put together. i wonder if i would have more control if i #didnt enjoy putting stuff back together. its almost like a sick incentive. like i act like garbage and then fix it and get dopamine about it #i need therapy. moreso i need someone to talk at i think. i wanna get drunk and complain and not have to act like i have a plan #biggest thing is i cant sleep. but fixing that is the plan i still dont have and at this point may never achieve. i feel like a failure. #fuck #at least I've stopped shaking and now am just depressed. maybe i should just play games i don't think about until side order comes out. idk

[thebibliosphere]

Every time someone well-meaning suggests I see a chiropractor for my migraines, I have this little moment of "ah, you're new here. You weren't here prior to 2018 when a chiropractor very gently adjusted my neck for my migraines, and I ended up having to get an emergency MRI because the ensuing symptoms were indicative of a brain bleed."

It wasn't a brain bleed. The muscles on the entire right side of my neck "just" tore (Spoiler there is nothing "just" about that kind of traumatic injury. I am still in physical rehab for it), and I couldn't hold my head up, see straight, walk or do any of the things I'd previously taken for granted until several weeks later when the area finally started to heal.

This was before I knew I had Ehlers Danlos, btw. But this is true even for people who don't have a connective tissue disorder: Don't let chiropractors touch your neck.

There are a lot of vital nerves and blood vessels there, and even gentle adjustments of the area can have life-threatening consequences.

I know chiropractic care can be pain relieving--I still get it for my lower back and hips because I work with a chiropractor who knows about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and sometimes my hips need to be popped back in at short notice, and it's easier to hop walk in and see her than wait for physical therapy--but it is a short-term relief that doesn't actually correct why something is happening.

If you can afford it, physical therapy will likely help more in the long term. I know not everyone can afford it, and that's why chiropractors have such a booming trade in the US, but please, I'm begging you, don't get your neck adjusted.

The spinal cord specialist I saw after my injury told me the number one reason he used to see people for traumatic brain injuries was car wrecks, followed by other major roadside injuries. He said those numbers were still the highest, but after that, the majority of his patients were survivors of chiropractic injury.

Do Not Get Your Neck Adjusted.

It's been over 5 years, and I still can't move my neck properly on my right side. I still struggle to eat and drink because my muscles will randomly seize up. It feels like my skull no longer fits on top of my spine because of the scar tissue. Please. I just want people to be safe.

And if you are a chiropractor reading this and thinking, "Well, I've never injured anyone, skill issue." No. You Have Gotten Lucky. Rethink how you apply your trade. Please, you can still help people while recommending safer options for specific body parts. Learn to do pressure point release and acupressure. Teach patients how to stretch and relax the area safely. Just fucking stop cracking people's necks like pop rock candy.

#chronic health tag #medical psa

[nodaudaboutitt]

dunno why I feel weird about it but I notice that pre much the majority of my characters since i broke my collar bone a decade ago, have some sort of missing limb or traumatic past theyre dealing with which is 🤔🤔

#calling myself out here #maybe something unresolved? #who knows honestly #maybe i do need therapy again #figure out whats rattling in my skull #weaver rambles

[ms-demeanor]

I think the eight alarms thing is usually a maladaptation. You've trained your brain to ignore the eight alarms because you kept avoiding the training of willpower following the first alarm would require. I think some sleep therapy might help?

Hey so first of all fuck you, thanks.

Second: I love it when you read literature on sleep disorders, especially if it's on sleep disorders among folks with ADHD, and you see time and time again "when allowed to sleep on their preferred schedule subjects maintained healthy, normal, restorative sleep cycles" and "effects were not lasting without ongoing intervention; resetting the sleep schedule is a permanent effort."

Like, if I sleep *great* from 6am to 2pm and I wake up feeling rested and alert with no special help but I need to turn off the lights in my house and shut down all electronics at 8pm and beam a spotlight into my face starting at 5am to wake up at seven and feel exhausted all day, I think perhaps it is not actually my sleep cycle that is wrong it is perhaps society that is wrong.

BELIEVE ME, when I find the job that pays well and has decent insurance that lets me exist as a cheerful nighttime ghoul I am jumping on that with both feet. But until then I literally feel better getting six hours of sleep and occasionally sleeping so hard that i can't hear my alarms because of chronic sleep deprivation than I do turning off all the lights in my house and ceasing all activity two and a half hours after I get off of work.

Also: the eight alarms aren't all there to wake me up, it's just that sometimes I *also* sleep through the ones that are supposed to remind me to go sit at my desk and start work. One of the first three usually gets me up, but on a day when I sleep through all three of those I will be sleeping through all eight of them and usually a phone call and someone trying to shake me awake to.

ANYWAY after being treated with melatonin and light therapy and staring listlessly at the ceiling in the dark bored out of my skull with racing thoughts for sleep disorders that I didn't have for like twenty years the single most effective intervention that allowed me to get more sleep as someone with both ADHD and DSPD was to start hanging out and being active in places where it would be easy to fall asleep if the sleep caught me there instead of turning my bedroom into a dark, silent shrine of snoozing. Giving myself permission to fall asleep late instead of laying awake chewing myself up with guilt for not being asleep helped too.

Actually here's some tips for the sleepy bitches in the crowd:

1 - If you're laying down and not falling asleep in half an hour, you're not actually sleepy; read something or get up and do something because you're more likely to get sleepy faster that way than you are staring at the clock going "if I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and forty five minutes of rest when I have to go to work; If I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and twenty minutes of sleep when I have to get up, etc. etc."

2 - Allow yourself to be ambushed by sleep. Fall asleep on your cozy couch. Fall asleep in the comfy chair. Let yourself sleep where you fall asleep instead of dragging yourself to where you're 'supposed' to sleep if doing so will wake you up.

3 - The mythbusters thing. If you just lay down and close your eyes and pretend to rest you will feel more rested when you get up than when you laid down. Laying down to rest is better than nothing, it literally causes cognitive improvements similar to sleep in tests, and knowing that can help take off some of the pressure of not being able to fall asleep and can thus help you fall asleep.

4 - It's okay to "hang out" in the area where you're going to sleep. Read in bed. Play games on your cellphone in bed. If you want to go to sleep put on comfy clothes and bring a chill activity and hang out in your bed to do it so that all you have to do when you start getting sleepy is close your eyes.

5 - It's better to get some sleep than no sleep. Sometimes you look at the clock and it's six AM and whoops, fuck it. Okay, time for bed, don't stress that you're only going to get a few hours, a few hours is better than nothing. Lay down to pretend to rest at least and you'll probably feel okay.

6 - This one sounds silly and might not work for a bunch of people for a bunch of reasons but apparently there's some research suggesting that "well-rested" is a state of mind? I've had a reasonable amount of success with just telling myself "Yeah, I actually feel pretty good," and pushing through the day on a couple of hours of sleep. I don't *recommend* that and you should try to get as much sleep as possible, but yeah the next time you're low on sleep see what happens if you just try to decide to not be tired. It sounded like bullshit to me when I first heard it but I've found some success with it.

7 - This shit is cumulative. If you're doing a couple nights a week on low sleep that's not ideal but you're probably going to be pretty functional and you can work on it. If you overbook and overextend yourself for too long - I'm looking at you college students and new parents - it's going to add up. Try as much as possible to at least keep your sleep deficit nights spread out. (This message brought to you by writing 60k words of fiction in october and completely frying my brain because i wasn't getting enough sleep).

[nonadjacent]

you know what's so weird about filipino culture is that people my age are willing to leave their toxic households which good for them but suddenly is so concerning because it shows how god-awful the parenting is for gen z children

my irl friends and i included 🧍‍♂️

three out of four of us have expressed our parent traumas and they are so bad :skull:

#i am so going to make a study about this #we so need therapy #lowkey vent but trust me on this #key part of filipino parenting: traumatize your children enough for them to hate you #my own mom involves me with her problems with her siblings but i'm the one who just wanted to visit my niece #that was a painful day i don't trust my mom to this day because of that lol #and god-forbid all the trauma i have from her because i did not get a high score in my exams skull emoji #AAAAND MY OWN DAD ANTAGONIZES ME :DDDD #HE HAS EXPRESSED THAT HE HATES HIS CHILDREN BUT I HEAR HIM SAY THAT ABOUT ME MORE THAN MY BROTHER #jace jabbers.txt