I Am Trying To Break Your Heart.

don’t panic.

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[wlwellbutrin]

wdym most women engage in disordered eating habits

i mean that most women engage in disordered eating habits. what is unclear about that? how many women do you know who DON’T binge, purge, fast, restrict, go on diets including fad diets, go on cleanses including juice cleanses, count calories, count other things they can use as proxies for calories, count the calories they burn, peg their food intake to something other than hunger, use food to control their emotions, treat food as something they must earn and don’t always deserve, exercise compulsively, restrict or eliminate certain food groups based on nutritional pseudoscience, categorize foods as good and bad, experience feelings of self loathing based on what they’ve eaten, or use their abstention from food and control of their bodies and therefore food intake to attain feelings of purity, transcendence, or fulfillment? don’t try me.

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[wellthatsjustgreat]

The next time they tell you Americans are “happy” with their employer provided health insurance remember that that “happiness” is fueled by willful ignorance of what the alternatives are really like and fear of losing what little crappy health care they currently have.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[adamsmasher]

hi I’m a therapist some people come to me to break down severe childhood trauma some people come to me because their job is super stressful some people come to me because they’re worried all the time about stuff that they know they shouldn’t be worried about but they worry anyway some people come to me because they’re bad at focusing some people come to me because their mom said they should but they’re enjoying the experience anyway what i’m saying is there is no wrong time, reason, or explanation to come see a therapist. we’re ready for you.

[starfire003]

Reblogging because someone probably needs to hear this.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

To all my freshman babies who are panicking right now about how much your college textbooks cost: Yeah, you’re right, that’s some highway robbery. No, you don’t have to lie down and take it. You have options. Follow my advice and fly on your own debt free wings.

1. Forgoe the bookstore entirely. Sometimes you can get a good deal on something, usually a rental, but it’s usually going to be considerably more expensive to go through official channels. Outsmart them, babies.

2. Does your syllabus call for edition eight? Get edition seven. Old editions are considered worthless in the buyback trades, so they sell for dirt cheap, no matter how new they are. It’s a gamble, sure; there might be something in edition eight you desperately need, but that never happened to me. However, I’ve only ever pulled this stunt for literature/mass comm/religious studies books, so I don’t know it would work in the sciences.

3. Thriftbooks.com, especially for nonfiction and fiction. Books are usually four or five dollars unless they’re really new, and shipping is 99 cents unless you buy over 10$ in books, in which case shipping is free. 

4. Bigwords.com. It will scan every textbook seller on the internet for the lowest price available, and will do the same to find the highest price when you try to sell your books back at the end of term. Timesaver, lifesaver.

5. In all probability, your library offers a service called interlibrary loan which is included in your tuition. This means if your library doesn’t carry a book you can order it for free from any library nationwide in your library’s network and it will be shipped to you in a number of days. Ask a librarian to show you how to search for materials at your library as well as though interlibrary loan; you’ll need to master this skill soon anyway.  If you get lucky you can just have your required reading shipped to you a week before you need to start reading, then renew vigorously until you no longer need to item. I’m saving over 100$ on a History of Islam class this way.

You professors might side-eye you for bringing an old edition or a library copy, but you just smile right back honey, because you can pay your rent and go clubbing this month. You came here to win. So go forth and slay.

[spodiddly]

Can I add to this? 6. Find PDFs of your book to store on your computer. I managed to find an up-to-date edition of my textbook for sociology by doing this, and other books for other classes. It may be risky to have to look high and low for them, but it’s a godsend trust me

[azraeldoesnotdispute]

Other things to help college-bound kidlets:

Get Windows Office free.

If you’re having a panic attack.

When you’re writing a term paper.

Cheap school/college things. (Not all links are active, but still.)

College tips.

Cheap or free college books 

Hobbies. (Because sometimes you need to turn off your brain.)

Libre Office. (Because Windows sucks.)

Practice in case you’re attacked.

If you have to deal with cops. (Especially important for POC because racism is still alive, sadly.)

[honey-wine-and-time]

Adding to this that some libraries have a policy for ILL where they won’t order textbooks, so order chapters instead of the whole book.

[alwaysforgottenpanda]

Most of my college professors understood that textbooks are stupid expensive and would actually offer a copy to be checked out like a library book or would give us pdf files or even scan the reading and give us those pages. Talk to your professors. They might give you resources

[hellenhighwater]

If you do buy a previous edition, find someone who can loan you the current edition, or get it from the library, and photocopy the table of contents. Your prof is likely to be giving assignments by page or chapter number, so you need to be able to check that.

You can and absolutely should talk to upperclassmen. Ask their advice–do you even need a book for this class? Often you can also find someone who forgot to sell back their textbook and work out a deal with them.

[socialworker-rebecca]

“Do what you love, and fuck the rest.”

- Dwayne, Little Miss Sunshine

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[queen-with-goals]

I wish the person who I reblogged this from happiness, good eyebrows, and clear skin.

[ellawritesstuff02]

SOMEONE REBLOG THIS FROM ME PLEASE

[friarlucas]

one thing i hate about media is how there’s no sort of representation for how badly friendship break ups fuck you up. like there are a million and one films about romantic break ups but i have yet to see a film or television show that accurately depicts how difficult friendships falling apart can be and how that stuff can really leave you with wounds and behaviors that take ages to heal

[socialworker-rebecca]

OK THIS!!!!

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[piscesjupiter-deactivated201912]

i’m literally so sick of everything having gross shit in it for shock value...like there are plenty of ways to respectfully handle trauma and prejudice and whatever other dark themes without depicting it all in graphic detail...like i don’t understand this obsession with brutality under the guise of “honesty”

[raspberrytoupee]

Lol I literally shouted “YAAAAS QUEEN” at the end of Midsommer and everyone in the audience laughed