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havingapoemwithyou

Queer by Frank Bidart

#poetry

havingapoemwithyou

The Way Things Have Been Going Lately by Ada Limón

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lazyleafeon

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rendering

#reads like poetry to me #woah

yellow-cat

printing this on a tshirt and wearing it to see my family to see if they get the hint

#reads like poetry to me

nixscriptum

happy pride month. 🌈

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dxstroymx

what to write when you’re happy, M. T.

#poetry #WAH

weirdlandtv

From: HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK (1971), by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero.

what-even-is-thiss

Health classes really ought to teach people what the beginning stages of addiction are like because a lot of people don’t realize they’re addicted to something until they’re years deep into it.

what-even-is-thiss

Signs you might be getting addicted to something:

If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.

Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.

You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.

You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning

If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.

You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”

You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug

And if you read this and think you might be addicted to something, don’t panic and don’t feel ashamed. Realizing you’re addicted to something isn’t a failure. It’s more information about your health that you can use to manage your condition, whether you want to get rid of your addiction or not.

writing-with-olive

Other signs (which might be a little farther along in the process than OP is talking about, but hopefully still helpful. some of them also overlap kinda heavily with what OP said)

You are starting to prioritize it over other forms of self care, such as nourishment, hydration, sleep, movement, etc

Activities you usually/used to care about start to feel less important than the thing on an emotional level

Your mind often wanders to what you're going to do when you next have access to the thing, even when the thing isn't relevant to what you're doing in the moment

It's becoming difficult to create plans that don't either include engaging with the thing, or are scheduled to leave time to engage with the thing

The suggestion that you no longer engage with the thing creates an emotional response of fear/anxiety/alarm/anger/defensiveness that is hard to explain

#advice

miamaimania

“A poem, an exercise in omitting letters” ⌇ Thomas Penny · concrete poetry

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grendelmenz-deactivated20200929

some sort of love poem

grendel-menz

This has recently gotten to 200,000 notes, and though I’ve tried to talk about my opinions on this poem, the poems meaning, and its popularity before I’ve always ended up deleting out of anxiety or whatever other reasons I’ve had.

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