[wingkink]

Therapists are just…. Common sense filters

[wingkink]

Me: yeah so I just don’t have the energy to get up and make myself a sandwich or wait for something to cook so I just. Don’t

Her: why don’t you just eat the sandwich components without putting them together

Me:

Her: you can just eat a handful of cheese and some sandwich meat. You don’t have to make a sandwich.

Me:

Me: what

[cyanoticfallacy-deactivated2018]

Therapists finding loopholes for mental illness things is one of my favorite things about dealing with mental illness because it really helps me understand that just because a reaction is Common doesn’t mean it’s Right. Does doing dishes stress you out a lot? Buy paper plates. Do your obsessive thoughts make you worry about leaving your curling iron on so you drive home from work to check? Just put the curling iron in your purse and bring it to work with you while we work on tackling where this worry comes from. Symptom management doesn’t have to look like drudgery.

[ziggyplayedd]

i used to go days without showering because seeing my body was so upsetting that i would end up spiraling and then i realized i could simply turn the lights out. it took some getting used to but i’ve been showering with the lights off for years and it’s now one of my favorite parts of my day.

do whatever you want nothing is real and there’s no need to inflict unnecessary suffering on yourself just to try to seem “normal”

[biyaself]

I love this post

[jettestblack]

Hmmm

[petrichorepoch]

These kinds of loopholes make life so. Much. Better.

[fuckyeahasexual]

One of my favorite stories is this lady had extremely bad OCD. Every day she’d be late to work because she was convinced that her hair dryer was going to burn down the house so would always have to turn around and check it. Multiple times a day even. A bunch of doctors tied to “fix” her of that fear, until one day she got a doctor that suggested she bring the hair dryer with her. Other doctors were annoyed, saying that wasn’t a the correct way to help, but she gave it a go. When she had that fear, she’d look over and see the hair dryer unplugged in the seat next to her and was able to carry on. I think it’s such a perfect example of actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard.

[eclecticpersonswondersland]

That story helped me stop repeatedly checking if my front door was locked. Instead of checking that the door was locked over and over I would check my security system app. If it’s on it will alert me if the front door opens.

[daughter-of-rowan]

“…actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard” should be added to the Hippocratic Oath.

[minus-the-negative]

Started reading about the door and I thought they were gonna say they took the door with them

[dancinbutterfly]

They’re👏called👏adaptive👏behaviors👏and 👏are 👏literally 👏how👏you 👏fight 👏mental👏 illness👏

[prettyvixenavenue]

[plutothewitch]

september will be kind. september will be magical. september will bring the missing energy. september will be working towards our goals and self. september will be a month full of growth.

[met-european-paintings]

Island of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, European Paintings

Reisinger Fund, 1926 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Oil on wood

[roseydoux]

[naturaekos]

“Don’t say maybe if you want to say no.”

— Paulo Coelho

[heedra]

me when i havent eaten enough food: no energy. im sleeby.

me when i have eaten enough food: what a great meal. im sleeby.

[fairydusts]

girl culture is turning around every few feet when you’re walking alone to see if someone’s following u

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

Learn to peep through the corner of your eye so you’re not quite so obvious when you turn.

[feministfront]

Putting in your earphones so hopefully no random men try to talk to/harass you but not actually playing music so you can listen for footsteps/other suspicious noises behind you.

[gibbearish]

feeling like someone is following you and subtly shifting whatever object you’re holding into a better grip so you can use it as a bludgeon if the person behind you tries anything

[its-probably-all-elves]

Being fucking terrified when street lamps give you more than one shadow

[allcapsmadbitch]

just girly things~🌟

[mjalti]

I hate giving ppl my phone number cuz then they’ll be calling and texting me like … this is my safe space … show some respect

[mjalti]

a voicemail bitch a voicemail? are we married?

[taavot-deactivated20170404]

remember being little and thinking dandelions were fun or a pretty color or something and every adult in an 80 mile radius wouldn’t let you say that without screaming ITS A WEED

[rabbittrabbitt]

also like:

dandelions are edible, easy to grow, and are rich in vitamins a, c, k, beta-carotene, calcium, iron, manganese, and potassium

dandelions can be made into wine, tea, soft drinks, and a coffee substitute

they are used in herbal remedies to treat liver and digestive problems and as a diuretic

they’re good for bees!

they make good companion plants for various herbs and tomatoes; their long taproot helps bring up nutrients in the soil and they release ethylene gas which ripens fruit

dandelions secrete latex which means they can be used to make natural rubber 

they make great flower crowns 

[mszombi]

Why ARE they considered a weed? They’re a good flower? Who decided they were bad? =(

[kittyknowsthings]

You can also make beautiful jelly from the blossoms!

[systlin]

They’re considered weeds because they were a poor person resource and not having them was a status symbol.

Let’s back up.

In Europe dating back to the 1500’s and even earlier, you could only have immaculate manicured lawns if you had just pots of money and were able to own land. So, rich nobility had swaths of land, and they demonstrated their wealth and power by hiring people to physically cut the grass and keep their gardens and dig weeds out of the turf by hand. It was a demonstration of money and power. It said “I can afford to have eight people employed full time just to dig things that aren’t grass out of my grass. I can afford to have all of this land doing nothing. It’s not producing food. People don’t farm it or live on it. I can afford to just grow grass, and have someone tend to that wholly useless crop.”

Fast forward a few hundred years. Europeans come to America. Many of them are from the poorer classes in Europe. Many have never owned land before, and now all of a sudden they can (because they stole it from the Native Americans but that’s a whole other rant.)

Now, at first you see little cottage gardens like the lower classes in Europe always had around their homes; places where they grew food and herbs and kept chickens or other livestock. Dandelions were welcome here; they were eaten and brewed into wine and used for medicine, just as they’d been for centuries.

But then people start making a little money, and we have the whole phenomenon of people who can demonstrate that they are Moving Up In The World by buying all of their food and medicine, just like the old landed gentry back in the Old Country. So they do. What goes in the place of those cottage gardens? Why, the same thing that went in the place of productive land back in the Earl of Chatsworth’s front lawn; a lawn.

So. Dandelions were a symbol. They were a throwback to the old days. They were a sign that you were somehow less prosperous than your neighbors, or lazier. (A Mortal Sin in America.) But, many Americans work, and can’t afford to hire a gardener just to grub dandelions out of the yard with a trowel all day.

Enter the lawn care industry, which began to market a dizzying array of poisons and fertilizers aimed at making your lawn a sterile moonscape where only grass grew with minimum effort from the homeowner. This continues to this day and is a multibillion dollar industry that has huge negative impacts on the environment and human health, but we can’t seem to shake that old ideal of a manicured lawn.

We pour water on deserts and poison on native wildflowers to attain it. We expose our children to poisons. We poison pollinators and pets. The days where we recognized a well kept lawn as a symbol of aristocratic leisure are gone, but we’ve been successfully fed a lie that some dandelions and chickweed are Bad by the lawn care industry in their ads for decades. They, obviously, want to keep it going because they’re making fat $$$$$$$ off of us.

THAT’S why dandelions are viewed as weeds.

Also yeah dandelions are really good for bees, and beloved by native bees and honeybees alike. So please, leave them blooming!! You can support bees and do your bit to smash capitalistic exploitation of the working class and the environment all in one go!

[nestofstraightlines]

Lawns are terrible things, a redundant status symbol (‘I don’t need to grow food on my land’ is no longer a proud boast), boring verging on ugly and vastly consuming of water and labour. Let the dandelions grow!

[emmersdrawberry]

I can’t believe dandelions suffered classism.

[spellbookbitch]

Oh my god IM SO SHOOK I ALWAYS LOVED DANDELIONS AND GOT SO EXCITED TO LET THEM GET SO TALL AND LOVE THEM TO DEATH. TIME TO MAKE MY YARD A GODDAMN BOTANY EXPERIMENT

[jonsnowboard]

[mutablefire]

I want to know the artists of these incredible sculptures!

[zombieseamonster]

1) Lorenzo Quinn– Force of nature 2)Fredrik Raddum– Trans ī re 3)Daniel Firman– Elephant(?) 4)Johnson Tsang– Kiss 5)Zenos Frudakis– Break Through From Your Mold 6)Paige Bradley– Expansion  7)Robert Glen– Mustangs 8)Ervin Herve-Loranth– Feltépve 9)Jean-michel Folon– (I couldn’t find the title)  10)Giambologna– Appennino  11)Adrian Gray– (couldnt find the title)  12)Darin Lazarov– Dragon Lovers(?)  13)David McCracken–Diminish and Ascend 14)jJason deCaires Taylor– (couldn’t find the title)  16)Han Meilin(he designed it anyway)– Guan Yu 17)Petrus Spronk– The Architectural Fragment  18)Eva Oertli and Beat Huber–The Caring Hand 

[ignescent]

Reblogging for the artist list!

[antis0cial-extrovert]

These are breathtaking❗❗❗

[unbotheredmuse]

why is being alive so expensive. i’m not even having a good time

[chrissongzzz]

[kenyanxgyal-deactivated20191123]

Me getting up at 3am to drink water

[kennyy-b-deactivated20210321]

😂 my mans went right out ..

[queenstravelingdarling]

Oh my goodness 😍😍😍😍😩😩😩

[raddestofmadz]

if you don’t hype your dog up when you walk in the door you don’t deserve to have one

[winterfellis]

[cheercaptain]

pink is the best color. like sign me up i will literally take pink anything. if i had to choose between regular clear water and pink water with no context i would drink the pink water no questions asked just glug glug glug drinking that sweet mysterious bubblegum tinted liquid 

[indi-element]

What's wrong?

everything bitch don’t act stupid