Tag: damn

jonahryan:

I hate that social media has commodified performative grief and outrage to the point that every fucking person thinks that every tragedy that happens needs to be addressed by them, personally. I hate that there’s an expectation that everyone make some grand statement and that if you don’t do it, you must be heartless or hate the victims. We’re not all celebrities or politicians. Not every voice needs to be heard at all times. The world probably doesn’t NEED anyone’s take if it doesn’t contain new information. Processing things silently isn’t bad and it doesn’t make anyone a bad person and I honestly much prefer it to a lot of the self-serving bullshit you see when something awful happens in the world.

I fall into that trap. Most people do. It’s shit and it produces a lot of shit sentiment. “WHY AREN’T PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS?!” is my least favorite sentence in the world right now. Most people, when it comes to tragedy, have nothing to say. Most uninvolved people, in these circumstances, should say less.

bizarrolord:

wasd-toward-me:

leviage:

me: I’m mentally ill and struggling to get the energy to do tasks that are necessary for my everyday life

a neurotypical: having you considering taking on several time consuming and tiring hobbies, such as running, getting up at 5am to do yoga, and making green smoothies with 20 ingredients every day

You know what, I’m kind of sick of this “I can’t do anything to help myself” mentality.

I have/had crippling general anxiety and depression. I was in a permanent state of being suicidal and jumping from mundane annoyances to wanting to die pretty frequently. I too was in a shitty, terrible place due to my mental illnesses.

And then one day I was like “I need to change this. I need to change all of this” and I went and made a therapy appointment.
1) Talk therapy works if you find a person you jive with. I know it’s not as accessible for everyone as it was for me (and hint, if you’re a college student, you most likely have access to it via your tuition), but
2) Meditation helps? Like a lot? Like that’s the thing I do when I feel myself slipping into thought cycles I know only lead to hating myself. It’s been shown time and time again that cosmopolitan medicine in the Western world is NOT effective at dealing with mental illness.

Guess where Meditation didn’t come from? And may I ask if you’ve even tried these things before you knocked them as “neurotypical” expectations? You don’t have to start off meditating 30 mins a day, just sit down, close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths for like a minute even and let yourself be still.

You want to “other” yourself from “neurotypical” people because it’s a fad? Fine. Live with your mental illness like a badge. I’m trying to conquer mine, so get out of my way and stop perpetuating the stereotypes that people with mental illness are doing it for attention.

^Yep. I’m not going to feel sorry for myself due to not being neurotypical. In fact, wallowing in my own sorrow feels like shit, and I NEED to do stuff and be active to cope.