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[iloveprocessedcheese]

hiiii my name is gray. im in my late 20s, in the UK, bigender, bisexual and biracial. you can use any pronouns for me but they/them is my fave.

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[homobiwan]

Therapy speak is super annoying in characters and i think more authors should weaponize this by having a character use therapy speak to justify all their bad life choices including but not limited to bullying, arson, and war crimes to really drive home just how obnoxious it is

[nicelystarrytalon-deactivated20]

Oh wow this sure is a hard prompt @iloveprocessedcheese. My goody-two-shoes OCs would never make bad life choices. /s

To be honest, I think it would be Anna. She's very insecure and not-so secretly full of resentment, but despite all that she maintains an image of herself as a saintly Good Person.™ If she could "set a boundary/heal her inner child/practice self-care" her way out of absolute mayhem, she probably would.

Her best friend Eva however, known for her brutal honesty and simplicity of character, is the LEAST likely to use therapy speak and would NOT let Anna have it.

[homobiwan]

Therapy speak is super annoying in characters and i think more authors should weaponize this by having a character use therapy speak to justify all their bad life choices including but not limited to bullying, arson, and war crimes to really drive home just how obnoxious it is

[not100bees]

They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

[god-monsterr]

this reply deserves to be here.

[woodlouseandbird]

my therapist suggested i imagine my intrusive thoughts in the voice of donald trump bc i do not possess an ounce of respect for him or trust in his competence. going thru it today so i made this. hope this helps

[b0nkcreat]

this is the funniest fuckig thumbnail ive ever seen and it won’t let me find the post in the tag please god. please. i need intrusive thought donald trump on my blog i’m begging

[leebrontide]

Potentially hot take but one of the reasons we need art and music in schools is that, taught correctly, they are ideal avenues for teaching kids how to do something, kinda suck at it, keep going anyways and improve over time.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

"What if I write it and it's bad" "what if I draw it and it's bad" "what if I play it and it sounds bad" DOING IT BAD IS HOW YOU LEARN TO DO IT GOOD! You can't skip the process of leaning and the process is FUN if you let it be what it needs to be!

[arrows-for-pens]

If you have anxiety-driven perfectionism that's causing The Freeze, I recommend this book, it's by a psychologist who specializes in treating perfectionism.

[endlessmazin]

Ripple Anomaly in the Valley

[sandmandaddy69]

[eldritchbauble]

This obviously won't fix everything, but one thing that genuinely helps my depression is looking for the next small reason to be content.

Right now I'm indulging in coffee and a bagel.

Sure, it'll be gone in 10 minutes, but that's still 10 minutes of today that I spent knowing that this chive and onion cream cheese tastes bomb.

[eldritchbauble]

People who've cracked the code on romanticizing your everyday life are so right.

If I decide the small things are sacred, no one else gets to decide they're not.

[iloveprocessedcheese]

Hi I'm on a plane! About to get into airplane mode!

Did you do this?

[nicelystarrytalon-deactivated20]

Ah, I wish

[nicelystarrytalon-deactivated20]

It's funny that this is what you pictured when I said I was "about to get into airplane mode"

[iloveprocessedcheese]

sdfhskf i will take any and every opportunity to use that gif

[iloveprocessedcheese]

Hi I'm on a plane! About to get into airplane mode!

Did you do this?

[joeyclaire]

wait ok now i'm curious how old were you when you joined tumblr and how old are you now

[aplpaca]

ocd spirals are like this gif on loop for hours except the I'm Okay's get gradually less common and less "believable" as it goes on

[allpiesforourown]

If you are a vampire NEVER feed from someone named Richard. 400 fucking years and everyone still calls me Dick Sucker

[bebidocrimes]

[thedinosaurprince]