Striped Carnations

"If I write how i feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling." - Frenando Pessoa

[margomoment]

[and-how-to-heal-from-it]

Forgive yourself if today was a bad day. 

Forgive yourself if things didn’t go according to plan. 

Forgive yourself, even if you feel like you messed up. 

Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can. 

[artofthecatt]

You better fuckin believe it [x]

[stayprettyandsmile]

Your feelings matter.

[fairylilies]

i’m so sorry if someone made you think it’s hard to love you

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

I know how badly you just want to give up right now. I know. I get it. But don’t. You’ll be okay someday, and you will be so glad you didn’t give up.

[breebunn-deactivated20180414]

do you ever get scared that you might stay depressed for the rest of your life

[lunas-worlds-blog]

I wanted to put all the pain in a bottle.

[brutalnightmare-deactivated2023]

[freedomandkindness]

me right now, feeling like shit again

[freedomandkindness]

never felt so represented

[freedomandkindness]

please im fucking trying.

[positivelyg4y]

[phobs-heh]

Magdalena, Antonio Ciseri

[unbotheredmuse]

why is being alive so expensive. i’m not even having a good time

[jodiefoster]

i’m not sleepy in a cute way but in a chronic depression and insomnia way 

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Errors in Thinking that Create Anxiety

1. All-or-nothing thinking: Looking at things in black-or-white categories, with no middle ground (“If I fall short of perfection, I’m a total failure.”)

2. Overgeneralization: Generalizing from a single negative experience, expecting it to hold true forever (“I didn’t get hired for the job. I’ll never get any job.”)

3. The mental filter: Focusing on the negatives while filtering out all the positives. Noticing the one thing that went wrong, rather than all the things that went right.

4. Diminishing the positive: Coming up with reasons why positive events don’t count (“I did well on the presentation, but that was just dumb luck.”)

5. Jumping to conclusions: Making negative interpretations without actual evidence. You act like a mind reader (“I can tell she secretly hates me.”) or a fortune teller (“I just know something terrible is going to happen.”)

6. Catastrophizing: Expecting the worst-case scenario to happen (“The pilot said we’re in for some turbulence. The plane’s going to crash!”)

7. Emotional reasoning: Believing that the way you feel reflects reality (“I feel frightened right now. That must mean I’m in real physical danger.”)

8. ‘Shoulds’ and ‘should-nots’: Holding yourself to a strict list of what you should and shouldn’t do and beating yourself up if you break any of the rule

9. Labeling: Labeling yourself based on mistakes and perceived shortcomings (“I’m a failure; an idiot; a loser.”)

10. Personalization: Assuming responsibility for things that are outside your control (“It’s my fault my son got in an accident. I should have warned him to drive carefully in the rain.”)

Source: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anxiety_self_help.htm