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NOT EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE

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Mental Illness

In today’s world, it’s become increasingly difficult to avoid, suppress, and force ourselves into fake states of positivity. Clearly, our “negative” emotions are bubbling to the surface where they cannot be ignored any longer.

We see anger and pain overflowing into the social and political sphere, in schools where violence occurs, and all over the news.

It’s no wonder so many of us get stuck in apathy, pessimism, and distractions. Life is challenging us right now, and the first necessary step is to actually acknowledge that we are in pain. This sounds incredibly simple, yet so many people choose to fight their symptoms rather than committing to understanding them.

On social media I see a lot of hashtags exemplifying our resistance to pain, like #depressionwarrior and #fightanxiety. And while it’s totally understandable to want to conquer the pain you’ve felt for so long, mental illness is not something to be battled and conquered. It doesn’t need to be fought, but rather, listened to and respected.

— Brianna Johnson

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Many of us have been running all our lives. We have the feeling that we need to run — into the future, away from the past, out from wherever we are. In truth, we don’t need to go anywhere. We just need to sit down and look deeply to discover that the whole cosmos is right here within us.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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You never know what someone is going through. Be kind, always! — TinyBuddhaOfficial

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One of the hardest skills to master is saying no to yourself so that you can rise up and unfold into a greater you: - No to distraction or lack of consistency; - No to the patterns/ways of being that only lead back into the past; - No to only doing what is easy; - No to doubt and fear.  — Yung Pueblo

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This is by far the absolute worst post I’ve ever seen on this website and that’s really saying something

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my friend drunkenly watched a TED talk last night was like “this stand up is terrible what the fuck”

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Relatable

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Yes. Reading excessively as a child for a lot of us was a form of escapism. But part of the reason so many of us struggle to read now is because we based our entire taste in reading on what helped us escape, but as we get older and our needs changed, a lot of us never adapted our reading tastes. So we keep trying to read YA fiction and it just doesn’t hit the way it used to and we assume it’s because we can’t read like we used to, but the reality is that we need a new genre of liturature to suit our new life experiences and mature taste.