i can't cope tbh

I made this blog bc I dont know how to cope outside of projecting myself on to characters and other shit hahah this is basically my blog for my mental bullshit and other fuckery

[marshbrains]

bring back quaaludes the other shit is not cutting it

[mothprincess]

you're not stuck. it's not over. you can claw yourself out again and again. find strength in yourself. find strength in others whom you can trust. the fight isn't over until you're dead.

[marshbrains]

Keep forgetting to take my meds and the unreasonable anger is back. Gonna chew through concrete about it ig.

[myriadsubtletiess-blog]

The worst part about having mental health issues is that you’re seemingly required to have a breakdown in order for people to understand how hard you were trying to hold yourself together.

[heartlessqueen]

do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time

[wiremothers-deactivated20230129]

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

[sykesarchive1]

natalie wee, our bodies & other fine machines

[sweatermuppet]

sam sax, hydrophobia

[sandersstudies]

I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”

He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.

But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.

[sandersstudies]

I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.

[sharpasanaro]

Please remember that this also applies to teenagers and preteens, they might be acting like a knowitall who doesn’t give a shit, or a first class jerk, but chances are fair they feel like shit for one reason or another and adults just chalk it up to teenage angst instead

[fandomsandfeminism]

Almost every time you see someone, child, teen, or adult, who is having some emotional meltdown over something minor, it's a "straw that broke the camels back" situation.

Kids and teens may have bigger reactions or it may take less to overwhelm them, but it's important to remember that they are still people and it's hard being a people.

[hopeful-recoveryy]

To anyone who was suicidal at age 14 or younger, here’s your permission to grieve. Here’s your permission to not joke about it or just flat out ignore it. Here’s your permission to acknowledge that lost child who felt way more pain than any child should ever feel. You’re allowed to cry for that child, whether you healed or are still suffering the same thoughts. Finally allow yourself to grieve for that child filled with undeserved hurt.

[marshbrains]

the power is out at my place so im staying with my mom and there was little kitten out after ankther storm hit, just screaming at the back door and i caught it and it had to be the cat distribution system but i am so sad bc i couldnt bring it inside and it would be a very bad decision to bring it home with me but i feel so horrible ablut not taking the little smoky baby

Ill be up all night thinking abkuf tbat kitten even though its probably from the colony that lives down the street from my mom and actually had a safe place taking care of it alreasy

But it could have had a safe place with ME and i was gonna name it Morel like a mushroom because it popped up after heavy rainfall

[marshbrains]

back at it again with the seasonal depression lol

[marshbrains]

wanted to expire for a little while there and then i remembered that its karkats birthday and i would never ruin a holiday for myself

[marshbrains]

its been so fucking long since I got down like this, and I'm just so upset with myself and angry because I SHOULD be happy. I've done a lot of good things for myself in the last few months. And I just want to fucking bounce.

[marshbrains]

Been a while since I was in this bad of a sitch I'll be honest

[ahrima-deactivated20240728]

executive dysfunction be like *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels ba

[o-v-e-r-w-h-e-l-m-e-d]

I recently learnt that executive dysfunction can be broken down into two main categories: anxiety that your attempt won’t be satisfactory, or confusion about where to start or how to break it down into steps. As much as we feel bad about it, it’s extremely important to remember that it is NOT laziness and we in fact shouldn’t feel bad.

[ahrima-deactivated20240728]

hey reblog this instead

[totallyfubar]

The reason the work you’ve done on how you feel doesn’t seem like it’s working is because you need to do it until it works. It’s never been “this strategy will pull you up” it’s always been “here’s something you can do that will END with you getting out of that hole” the climbing still hurts and the being underground still hurts but that doesn’t mean it’s not working

[totallyfubar]

*doing laundry* “this doesn’t feel better

*cooking meals* this doesn’t feel better

*exercising* this doesn’t feel better

*making art* this doesn’t feel better

*cleaning the apartment* this doesn’t feel better

*somewhere months or years down the line*

holy shit

[totallyfubar]

tl;dr

[awed-frog]

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

[marshbrains]

Haha, jesus christ i wish i was thanosed into dust rn :o)

(don't fucking reblog this either you fucks)

[notyourjaan]

If you experienced trauma in childhood or had a rough childhood, dude listen to me. Offer yourself play. You were deprived of it.

Keep bubbles in the house, blow bubbles in the yard, blow them in your room, get a coloring book that doesn’t have to be an adult one with mandalas, watch cartoons, laugh at stupid things, dress up as a superhero for Halloween, wear a Santa hat on Christmas and big light up snowflake earrings, lay down on the floor, lay down in the grass, eat eggos for dinner sometimes. It’s not stupid. You’re not childish. You’re giving your inner child what they had taken from them. They deserve it.

[personal-scientist]

I don't want to derail this post because it's an important message, and OP has addressed it to the people who most need to hear it. But... can i just add, for people who don't feel like they can give themselves permission to do this, that you can give yourself these things even if you didn't overtly experience trauma in childhood?

Even if you never thought of your upbringing as painful or malicious, you can and should still give yourself things you missed out on. Take that class! Learn that skill! Eat the foods you like, or branch out into new ones! Jump in piles of leaves and decorate your walls the way you want them.

Give yourself the things you couldnt have as a kid, especially if you didn't really get to have a childhood, but even if you didn't have the childhood you wanted. Go for a bike ride with friends. Go stargazing. Whatever it was that you feel like you missed, it's important to seek those things and remember that play and joy aren't exclusive to childhood.

[notyourjaan]

I don’t think you derailed this at all and think this was a really thoughtful addition. So thank you!

[modernamami-deactivated20230110]

Im in fucking tears rn

[psych2go]

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