You May Call Me Mrs. A

A 30-something with a sarcastic streak and a warped sense of humor. Spoonie and general badass. SA survivor turned advocate. Miscarriage loss momma. Suicide loss survivor. Married.

[eccedentesiast-skies]

You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

[staysoft4ever-deactivated202404]

Sex is great, but have you ever shared food with your lover in the middle of the night like two raccoons in love?

[justgoghawaypls]

it’s always “want to fuck?” and never “i’ll bleed whatever color you tell me to”

[i-only-see-daylight]

Aelin, telling the story of how she met Rowan: But it turns out, a fistfight can be romantic.

[gracie-rosee]

love when fictional men get all feral and protective over their wife, not because they can’t protect themselves but because they are simply not worth wasting their wife’s time. “You should be grateful it’s me because she is worse.” Yes.

[perfectquote]

“Love those who love you when you have nothing to offer but your company.”

— Unknown

[miserable-n-stunning]

Why are people with down syndrome always left out of conversations about neurodivergency and intellectual disorders? They deserve better.

[toastbutteregg]

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

[necrotranscjk]

An important tweet

[sighinastorm]

This is such a "common sense" way of putting it. Everybody memorize this for spitting it back out whenever needed.

[positivelyqueer]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you cancel/postpone an event or activity because you’re not feeling up to it physically or emotionally, and then you feel better after resting/not doing the thing, this doesn’t mean that you were lying, or that you actually were well enough. You just gave yourself the time you needed to rest and recover. Look after yourselves.

[lightheartedsuggestion]

What’s going to make you happy right now? Is it some cake? Is it a nap? Is it calling your mom? Is it going on a drive and blasting music? Is it taking a bath? Is it reading a book?

Check in with yourself because you deserve that happiness, whatever it is.

[thecatwhowalksbyherself-deactiv]

I use this with my hospice patients a lot. Because “is there anything I can do to help?” rarely gets a response. But, “I’ll be here till 6:30 and would like to do one thing to make your room more comfortable before I head out” frequently does get an answer. Often something they deem “too small to bug anyone with” like closing the blinds so there’s no reflection on the tv, or repositioning their socks because the heels have wandered into the front and are uncomfortable, or they want ice cream before dinner today, or getting an extra blanket.

I also use this on myself. What’s one thing I could do to make my environment more comfortable right now? Does it cure my mental illness? Hell no! Does it make me feel more in control of my feelings and the world around me? You betcha!

[ladynorbert]

I’m going to try to apply this to my current situation, since right now things feel very out of control. Thanks!

[javarisx-fightingthosedemons]

[ratgirl-mcsqueakers]

Any other chronically ill folk wake up from a night's rest and immediately need to rest and recover bc you hurt so much?

[chronicallydragons]

I love how people with chronic pain can be at extreme levels of pain and just be like “My body is ouchie”

[knightowlet]

Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

[catmat]

Chronic pain isn’t just one mild pain level all of the time. It varies from day to day or hour to hour. It can be really extreme, high, or rarely dip down to a lower level that most would still think would be unbearable to live with for long. When you do get one of those days where it isn’t too bad, you think maybe things are getting better, only for it to cripple you again.

Chronic pain varies; it can be really bad, it can be tolerable, but only to return with a vengeance.

The only consistency in chronic pain is the pain.

[from-ashes-i-rise]

Someone has to get this.

You know how in horror or suspense movies there's the build up before a big jump scare? The music gets tense, the camera zooms in, the actor starts to breathe heavy.

PTSD, for me, is that build-up, the tension, the anxiety, but the jump scare doesn't come. So my body and my mind are trapped in "something is wrong, something bad is coming" and there's never a way to stop it or slow it.

I don't know if this makes sense, but sometimes I just wish *it* would just happen. Just get it over with. Let the panic attack come, the seizure, or the flashback. The buildup feeling is worse.