Nighttime Thoughts

mental illnesses, personality disorders, and chronic illnesses... oh, my! 18+ 🧿 this is a sideblog (sorry) so i can't reply or follow back but feel free to message me about anything

[fibro-memes]

[fibro-memes]

[bookmatter]

Franz Kafka in a letter to Robert Klopstock, September/October 1921

[poetic-questions]

from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

[girlguro]

[idc0o]

Somehow being a person does not come naturally to me

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

[swoony-spoonie]

When the brain fog kicks in..

[221bluescarf]

A good description of avolition vs laziness

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

[stillfuckingtired]

Brain fog is not an adequate descriptor, actually. Fog can be kinda nice and beautiful and ethereal and refreshing. The thing we’re describing is more like a brain BOG; everything moves slow like you’re wading through water, it’s clunky and heavy and you keep getting stuck in the mud. It’s uncomfortable and inconvenient and everything takes so much effort. You lost a shoe, probably.

[fairycosmos]

truly do not understand how people just slip into relationships and jobs and opportunities and friend groups and lifestyles. to me there are a million obstacles to navigate in a single basic conversation

[cottaegecore]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Today, When I Could Do Nothing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[feluka]

imagine if i did my work. if i sat down and Did it. and it was Done. can you even imagine such a thing

[seaphine]

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025