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You need a rest. You need empty moments in which you tolerate your anxiety and circling thoughts until they slow down and stop circling. You need slow, quiet activities that ground you and remind you to accept yourself in spite of huge obstacles and bad thoughts. You need to put solutions out of your mind for now, and engage in activities that have nothing to do with your ego. You need habits that strengthen your patience and focus, but also feel real and not arbitrary. You need to abandon your glorious future and build your imperfect present instead.

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i-is-for-irina

read the whole article. it’s is one of the most profound things i’ve ever come across

ffahey

i’m a fan of freddie mercury and queen. i’m a fan of chamomile tee. i’m a fan of handwritten letters. i’m a fan of classic movies. i’m a fan of random encounters. i’m a fan of travelling by train. i’m a fan of mischief.

wayfaringmd

Is there a thing as subconsciously stressing? Because I don’t feel stressed but all my symptoms point to stress.

Sooooo a lot of folks feel their stress or anxiety physically before they realize it emotionally. There are hormones and various neurotransmitters that are released in response to physical and emotional stress that will cause a variety of physical signs and symptoms. As the stress piles up the physical symptoms (like headaches, sleep disturbances, heart palpitations, stomach aches, diarrhea, etc) can become more prominent.

Stress can affect your body before your conscious brain realizes it. Like the fight or flight response: if the stressor is a T-Rex is chasing you, you don’t need to take the time for your brain to recognize and process the emotion of fear. You just have to react. So those neurotransmitters raise your heart rate, open your pupils wide, and move you to quick action to face or run away from the dinosaur. In the case of a less toothy stressor like a major test or an argument with a loved one, the body might overreact a little and cause a racing heart or a headache or so-called nervous diarrhea.

So yeah, definitely possible.

dearmrmalek

This is the shit.

whatsyourask-blog

the mr. robot vr was making me feel some type of way so i made these gifs of ahk going hard as heck and now i’m cured™

heckifiknowcomics

pt xxviii - for a brief moment, it was like time didn’t pass, and we were all still in college, unaware of the goodbyes set out in front of us. we’re all taking the time to figure out our own lives, but sometimes missing my friends hit a little harder than usual.

seattle will always be a fond memory :)

#i is for irina's photosets #lol i miss my friends n i am sad

catchymemes

Astronaut tweets

i-is-for-irina

this is honestly really amazing.. it’d be so cool to see this with my own eyes one day

humansofnewyork

“I have two young boys. And every time we go somewhere, I’m not even thinking about my fun. I only think about their fun. I’ve been to the zoo a million times because the small one loves the monkeys. Last week we went to see Hotel Transylvania III. I’ve already seen two of those things. This time the monsters took a vacation. To be honest, I don’t even think there was a story. The monsters just kept interacting with people on the boat. I wasn’t really paying attention, but the boys loved it. I enjoyed their reactions more than the movie. I watched their faces the entire time. And whenever they laughed, I laughed.” (Cairo, Egypt)

hisokca-deactivated20160312

shit memory who dis

curioshittyy

The Hows of Us

1. There will always be a person in your life that will turn your world upside down. Kahit gaano katagal, kahit gaano kasakit yung past with that person kaya mo siyang iaccept ulit kase mahal mo siya.

2. There’s a stories behind every “Pagod na ako” at “Okay lang ako” sometimes these words are only an understatement from what’s really happening. Usap kayo, ask your partner kung ano na ba ang nangyayari.

3. Conversation and talking about the problem is one of the best tip to save a relationship. Dapat vocal kayo, or kung hindi man vocal at least kahit papaano napaparamdam mo sa partner mo na, pagod ka na or merong problema.

4. H'wag maging kampante na he/she will always be there for you. You need to level things up din in a while. Hindi dahil matagal na kayo, magiging kampante ka na.

5. Ang ganda ni kathryn. Putcha sarap mahalin.

6. In every break ups may learning, nasayo na yan kung paano mo siya ititake, kung positive ba or negatively.

7. Risk everything or never risk at all. Parang Schrodinger cats theory. Hindi mo malalaman kung hindi mo susubukan. Ganon.

8. The pain will make us stronger and will make us a better person.

9. Pwedeng mapagod, pero bawal sumuko. .

10. This movie tells us that we should be strong in every circumstances na darating sa atin including in our relationship. Nasasayo kung every sunset pipiliin mong bumitaw at iwan ang lahat or pipiliin mong manatili dahil alam mong may tao kang kasabay at kasamang tumingin sa hamon ng buhay sa bawat bukang liwayway.

11. Never mong makakalimutan ang isang tao, the memories with that person will stay with you at mag papaalala sayo ng sakit, at ng mga sayang naidulot niya sayo. Hindi lang naman sakit nabigay niya noong kayo pa eh, wag bitter.

12. Sana lahat kayang mag mahal parang si george. Selfless, pero may pangarap.

13. Never mawawalan ng problema ang relasyon dahil wala namang perpektong relationship. The more problems that will come to you, the more ypur relationship will be stronger. Except for cheating ha? Pag nag cheat di problema tawag doon, ang tawag don kagaguhan.

14. Sana lahat kayang mag sacrifice for the person they love. Sana lahat kayang mag take ng risk. Sana all.

Rating: 9/10

humansofnewyork

“After the divorce I threw myself into work. I’m in residency to be a psychiatrist, and I found that I could forget my problems if I focused on my patients. But I’d come home feeling numb. I wouldn’t sleep well. I lost fifty pounds. I kept convincing myself I was fine because I was still being so productive. But when I started having thoughts of suicide, I knew I’d reached my tipping point. I confided to my program director that I was going through a major depressive episode. She supported me 100% and referred me to the psychiatrist I see today. When I’m ready to get my license, there will be a question on the application that says: ‘Have you ever had a mental illness that impaired your ability to treat patients?’ I’m going to answer ‘no.’ Because being a patient has been a revelatory experience. It’s taught me how difficult it can be to verbalize what you’re feeling. And it’s taught me the power of denial, even for someone who studies the symptoms. When I began the medication it was like a veil had been lifted from my eyes. So much of what I know about depression, I learned by getting through it.”

wayfaringmd

Same same.

It’s only been six months since I officially graduated, yet undergrad feels like a lifetime ago. This transitional period of my life has presented its own challenges.. to say the least. Moving away from my closest friends, moving back a familiar, yet foreign home, and trying to pave a path that leads me to my bigger goals - none of this is easy, but I’m trying.

I think one of the hardest parts is keeping myself accountable to my dreams. It’s really inspiring to see so many of my friends get admitted to their professional school of choice. They’ve all worked so hard to earn their seat, and it encourages me to keep going, too. Some days are harder than others though. I think it’s easy to settle with what I have already.. leave what I’ve been envisioning for the past several years and play it safe. But when I remember why I’m choosing to pursue my dreams, it still brings about this feeling... it’s hard to describe how it makes my heart beat a little stronger, breathing a little easier, and myself more motivated, but it does. There’s a lot of good to do in this world, and I really hope to be able to play my part in this way.

It still is a long way forward, but I am grateful that I still have these moments to lean on for when times get tough.

it’s worth it

thebibliosphere

I took my meds too close to bedtime again and I need you all to know the dream I had last night involved Robin Williams becoming the new Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Not, a character portrayed by Robin Williams, just Robin Williams as himself running around Hogwarts doing wandless magic and being as loud and big as possible because and I quote before I forget:

“Listen, children, I’m not saying all this bad shit that is happening isn’t scary and you shouldn’t be concerned–because you should!–but I’m telling you this now for free. Life is a boggart, it’s the biggest boggart of them all. You never know what it’s going to look like one moment to the next. And sometimes you just gotta laugh. It’s okay to laugh. It’s part of the grieving process. You need to grieve before you can heal. But it’s okay to laugh while you’re doing it.”

I didn’t wake up right after that, some more stuff happened in a hazy sort of way as the dream began to dissolve into conciousness, but I remember him yelling Expecto Patronum as he punched a Death Eater in the face. Because sometimes, evidently, you have to make your own happy memories.