Mental Health Things

A realistic look at mental illness, its difficulties and its treatment, without all the cheesy, overbearingly optimistic affection or triggery content found too often on this site. Contact MH Things

[mh-things]

NEW ACCOUNT

I am moving to Instagram!

Please follow:

https://www.instagram.com/moon.full.of.stars/ 

@moon.full.of.stars

I will be posting about mental health, general health and wellbeing, recovery and my personal journey. 

Hope to see you there. :)

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me: *gets scared that i’m wasting my life* me: i’m gonna deal with this feeling by taking a long nap in the middle of the day

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[samael]

me, constantly

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[mh-things]

Hi, are you still taking asks asking for advice?

Yes you can send your questions in and I’ll try help, I’m trying to answer all the ones I have waiting in my inbox too but there’s nearly 120 so it’ll take a bit of time.

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I love my brain, but for it to be at its healthiest it needs medication. It’s part of my ld and I’m okay with that.

[icantdrawbutdontcare]

You’re meant to be going in a different direction than you thought, but it’s not a worse direction♥

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Hey, just wanted to thank you for having this blog. I've just spent about 3 hours crying, got pretty close to ending it but your blog made me feel better. Knowing someone else feels the same as I do is such a relief. Thank you.

Thank you for your message, It sucks to hear you were feeling that way but I’m glad my blog was able to make you feel better, I really think the small things like feeling connected and understood by other humans in some way can keep us going until life gets better and we find bigger reasons to hold on (sorry if that sounds cheesy but it’s true I swear :P). 

I hope you’re doing ok now.

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the worst thing about being mentally ill is like.. nothing is wrong.. my life is pretty okay right now.. everything is fine. and yet.. theres this sinking feeling in my stomach and i cant stop thinking about dying

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BORING SELF CARE series.

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The next few days I’m going to share drawings about how self care is often really really dull and unenjoyable. And not the “tumblr” kind of self care which is often lovely but not always real. Sometimes you just need to have clean clothes in your draws. Even though these things often build up in your mind the actual doing is often not as bad (unless obviously you are low on spoons 🥄, which is another discussion really as picking up your clothes off the floor may use energy you need to say, feed yourself. ) What are your boring things you do which are self care? #boringselfcare

Follow me on my Instagram: @makedaisychains

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Medication is often stigmatized and that really bothers me. I’ve taken meds on and off for years to supplement my focus and combat my anxiety. I’ve adapted because of prescriptions. None of us are weak for this, we’re simply helping our brains get the chemicals they need to function better.

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© Megan Fabbri 2017

[mh-things]

If you're on bupropion lamictal and lithium does your pdoc think you're bipolar 2?

Sorry to be boring but I think the best thing for you would to ask your psychiatrist what they think your diagnosis might be and why they’ve put you on those particular meds. The most I could guess from the information you’ve given is that they think you have some type of mood disorder or mood regulation issue. But as they’ve prescribed you both an antidepressant and two meds usually used to treat Bipolar Disorder it’s hard to say where on the spectrum they believe you may fall. 

Either way if you think that combination of meds is helping you that is the most important thing, but I hope you are able to see your psychiatrist and get some definitive answers soon. 

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[mh-things]

I'm back!

Hi all,

I know it's been a while since I last posted on here but I appreciate everyone who has hung in there and is still following. I've been struggling a bit and felt it was best to have a break from trying to help others when I was such a mess myself. 

Things aren't perfect now but I want to take small steps back into doing all the things I used to, so I'll be posting again and answering all the messages I have the best I can. If I've missed a message that you'd like answered please send it through to my inbox again (not the chat thing because I find that difficult to navigate).

As a side note, it was the blog’s 4th birthday last month! I was less wise and more angry when I started out so if you've been following me since way back then I really really appreciate it! 

-MH Things :) 

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“But they’re so nice, so talented, so…” NOPE

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