Max’s Mental

A place where I share my mental health journey, things I’ve learned, and set backs I’ve had. Hopefully, I can help others start their journey too

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Hello! I’m max, I’m a teen trans man and this is my blog to talk about mental health.

I made this blog to not only document my mental health but to try and help you start your journey with getting better. Mental health is hard, especially with all the noise around it. Although I will talk about my mental health in this blog, it’s more meant as a way for me to helps others. I’ll be giving out tips and advice, stories and positive thoughts, suggestions and ideas, and much more.

It can be hard and embarrassing to talk about your struggles, which is why I have my asks with anonymous turned on. If you want to talk about what you’re going through without putting a name to your story, please do. It’s normal to be embarrassed about reaching out, but it’s a great first step. With these asks you can request advice, ask for a listening ear, suggest things you want to see me talk about, give advice of your own that you want to share, or just send a little silly pic to brighten people’s day.

My goal is to be honest, to not hide the ugly that comes with getting better. It seems easy to get better when people only talk about the good days. I hope you join me, you deserve to be here and you deserve to be happy. Thank you for joining me on my journey, and hopefully your journey too :]

Tags:

(Subject to change)

“MM🌱 Advice” for advice, some times with a story to go along with it

“MM🌱 Guides” tips and tricks compiled into a big guide post to help you with a variety of things

“MM🌱 Stories” stories of my journey

“MM🌱 Daily Nature” A daily picture of nature, a way to keep calm and connected with the real world

“MM🌱 Answers” Answers to any asks

“MM🌱 Talk” just taking about my day, usually including something I realized/learned

“MM🌱 Challenges” challenges I may give to my followers in order to help them with their mental health in some way

DNI:

Bigotry of any kind, especially transphobia, homophobia, racism, and ableism.

MAGA, ICE, TERFS and any people who support them in any way.

Radqueers.

Mental health deniers.

Toxic and harmful people.

Do not interact with me or my blog if you are apart of any of these things, unless you’re tying to over come these things and that’s part of your mental health journey. If that’s the case, reach out to me in DMs so we can discuss that fully and calmly. My goal is to help others, I will do everything in my power to also protect the people on my blog.

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How do you politely tell your parents you’d prefer not to eat ice cream cause it’s got too much sugar and makes you feel sick and nauseous with self disgust? Without you know worrying them.

Well, the simple answer could be telling them that you don’t like it, maybe saying something like it’s too sweet for you. You could try to explain it in simpler terms, just saying that it doesn’t make you feel good because of all the sugar. I hope this helps, even if just slightly :]

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how do i know if i have gotten a panic attack? like sometimes i cry and i cant breathe so i start hyperventilating and my heart races and i get lightheaded, is that a panic attack?

I don’t have much experiences with panic attacks, but that does sound like one. From what I’ve read panic attacks are usually short, sudden, and have symptoms like hyperventilating. I’m sorry if this doesn’t help, but yes it does sound like what you’ve been through are panic attacks

Love you, be safe, and I hope you’re doing okay :[

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I have a challenge for you all >:]

I challenge all of you who see this to reblog and name three things about yourself that you love. I lead by example so I’ll go first.

I love my eye brows, my nose, and the beauty marks/freckles on my arms :]

I know this one is hard, but I want you to try. I love you all and I hope you all have an awesome day :D

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what do I do if I don’t like what I see in the mirror today? (Very vague I know sry don’t know how to word it without making me sound stupid)

Hmm, that’s a tough one because it can be hard to deal with insecurity and negativity around looks. My best suggestion is to try and name a few things about yourself that you like. Then try and think about the things you don’t like, let’s say for example you don’t like your nose shape. Try to think about your nose shape on somebody else, somebody you love. We often see features on ourself that we hate because our mind doesn’t like connecting with our bodies at time. To try and work past this, my best advice is to work on thinking about things you don’t like about yourself on someone else. Seeing things from out of our boxed in negative views can help guide you into loving those things. I’m sorry if this isn’t the best advice, like I did, this quite the hard topic to handle. Love you, be safe, and I hope this helps, even if just a little.

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My familys all come to visit and they’re stayin in my house and im already tired of them always talking and eating and taking me to places I don’t wanna go. Any advice for the week?

My advice for you is to try and find moments to slip away to get some space from them. I also get overwhelmed when family stays over so I get where you’re coming from. Try to find moments for yourself (for example, maybe after dinner, going up to your room while the rest of your family is talking) remember to breathe when you’re getting overwhelmed and try to find little things to take joy in, like if they drag you somewhere you don’t like, try to find something in that moment you like. That way focusing on the positives can make the negatives feel not as intense. It’s a very difficult thing to try and find calmness and happiness when you’re overwhelmed and feeling negative, but I believe in you. Even though it may be annoying, the week will pass and everything will return like it was before. Love you, be safe, and I hope this may help even if only a little :]

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Good morning everyone :]

Well at least for me it’s morning, it’s 9:35 AM as of the time I’m posting this. I slept pretty good last night, how about you guys :]

I have to do the kitchen this morning, it isn’t nearly as bad as it was yesterday when I was struggling because I managed to get a bit done on it. I’m currently thinking of a new challenge for you guys along with thinking about what nature photo I want to do for the daily picture. I forgot to post one yesterday, I’m sorry :[

If there are any topics you would like to see me talk about, drop them in the ask box or in the comments and I’ll make a more in length post. If any of the topics are sensitive/nsfw/triggering, put them under a cut so I can make sure people don’t have to see anything they aren’t comfortable with seeing :]

That’s all though, I hope you all have a lovely day. Be safe and I love you :>

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Advice/story:

In my house, we each have a job to do. My job to do is clean the kitchen, which includes loading and unloading the dishwasher, wiping down every counter, putting everything away, things like that. My family doesn’t help in the slightest with this, treating the dishes they make as my problem, not even rinsing them off or sometimes not even putting them in the sink.

These last few days, I hadn’t cleaned the kitchen or done the dishes at all. I’ve been struggling, and I’m okay with admitting that. My energy seemed drained constantly and I just couldn’t get past the task paralysis to do it. I knew this couldn’t go on any longer so I reached out to one of my friends through here and asked him if he had any advice to get it done. He told me things that I already knew, like taking it in sections and listening to something I like. For some reason though, someone else telling me to do these things, despite me already knowing these strategies helped.

I think because I reached out and someone now knew I was struggling, it helped me to breathe easier. I showed him a picture oh the sink full of dishes as a before, and that, along with his encouragement, helped motivate me to get it done.

So, my advice and something that I remembered today is that reaching out is a great tool to help. Sometimes, in order to knock some weight off the weight on your back, you need to share it with somebody else first. Please reach out if you ever need help.

Have a lovely day everyone, love you all :]

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I have a challenge for my followers :D

I challenge you all to get up at some point today and stretch thoroughly. Some times when we have no energy, it can be hard to realize what’s happening with our bodies. You might not realize how uncomfortable you were sitting, how hungry you were, things like that. This is a moment to try and get up and move, to get in touch with your body a little. I know it’s hard but I believe in you, reblog if you did it :D