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anxiety.

genocidershodan

Or, you know, you could just stop saying sorry.

prettylilraindrop

I take it you don’t have anxiety.

You can’t “just stop saying sorry”. You do something, something so little, like accidentally bump into someone. You feel horrible about it. Your brain starts panicking and you have trouble trying to breathe. You stutter an apology. They say it’s okay, but you accidentally do it again, and you apologize again. They just say “Aha, you can stop saying sorry.” And you feel horrible that you’ve probably made them angry or upset, so you mutter out an apology for the third stupid time, and they just say to stop saying sorry. Stop saying sorry.

You can’t just tell someone to stop saying you’re sorry.

inner--utopia

…Wow. I’m usually the one that tells people to stop saying sorry. I actually learned something on Tumblr, thanks!

apologieslogan

my best friend does this all the time. might I suggest that instead of telling people “stop saying sorry” to tell them something a little softer like “no need to apologize!” or “no worries”? I know the last one sounds a little contradictory for someone with anxiety, but as someone with anxiety, even small reassurances that it’s okay mean everything to me.

heir-of-the-founders

I usually say something like “its okay, you didnt do anything wrong” if the apology seems like it comes out of nowhere. I’ll also ask what they think they did wrong and reassure them about that.

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what if we bottle up our emotions and blame ourselves for the fall of all might 😨 and then we spill our hearts out to our childhood friend 🙈

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can we talk about how this fucking pbs show aimed at little kids easily talked about how anxiety is stressful but normal

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Ok no but can we talk about this entire episode?

It was called April 9th, and it was actually a response to the 9/11 attacks. It didn’t talk about the attacks themselves, but rather focused on teaching kids to deal with the all of the emotions that they might be feeling as a result. They set up a situation that might evoke similar emotions in children: a massive fire at the school.

Arthur’s dad was in the fire, so (as you can see above), Arthur is constantly worried about his dad’s safety.

Sue Ellen is grieving because her journal, which contained a huge amount of precious memories, was destroyed in the fire. Muffy is confused why she can’t just cheer Sue Ellen up by giving her a new journal.

Buster wasn’t at school that day, and feels confused and guilty that he isn’t sad about the fire like the other kids. He then befriends the school janitor, who has to retire due to an injury that, at his age, is pretty serious.

Binky actually saw the flames, and is constantly traumatized by the event. He doesn’t tell anyone because he feels like he would lose his tough-guy reputation if he admitted that he was scared.

The episode teaches kids that all of these emotions are perfectly normal and natural, that there’s not one right way to feel, and that even if it takes a while, things are going to be okay.

The thing that makes this show so great, in my opinion, is that it knows that kids are intellegent and strong enough to deal with these things if you present them in the right way. It doesn’t hide them, it doesn’t sugar coat them, it just presents them in a way that children can understand and shows them how to deal with them.

witch-without-gender

Arthur was and is the greatest children’s show ever created

anxietyproblem

raintome

witch-of-the-wild-xxx

!!!!!!!!!!!

jellynut

The Yellow One

waackery

THANK YOU PONY LIFE FOR GIVING ME FLUTTERCORD RIGHTS

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Splash Mountain Photos

scottman99

YES

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It’s funnier everytime I see it.

disneyprincess10

still one of my all time favourite posts

gh0stiiee

this should be a new drawing challenge, draw the squad at splash mountain

attackon-mysanity-blog

I wish I could draw

caterpillarsys

homestuck shirt

proteusolm

The gathering screeched to a halt when an unfamiliar tom stepped paw into the clearing. He was a vast orange tabby, with an all too familiar claw studded collar snug around his neck and a smug, dangerous grin plastered on his wide muzzle.

“You thought you could hide from me, Rusty?”

I present this very, very good comic with no comment.