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[traumasurvivors]

When I first started working on healing, I thought it meant that if I froze, dissociated, got triggered or had any sort of intense emotional reaction that I was undoing my progress. Or that if they happened, it meant I wasn't healing. (I still struggle with dissociating, triggers and stuff like that.)

It took time, but I began to realize that the progress is in noticing it happening sooner, being able to cope with it, or bounce back quicker. Or that it happens less frequently. Sometimes I'm able to notice the signs and prevent it from happening.

For me, it was never about 'never struggling' but about learning to deal with the struggles.

[diaryyun]

[weeladdabz]

Thankful for life,

Thankful for learning,

Thankful for growth,

Thankful for dreams,

Thankful for passions,

Thankful for laughter,

Thankful for memories,

Thankful for connections,

Thankful for love,

Thankful for music and art,

Thankful for the sunlight,

Thankful for the moon and stars that shine,

Thankful for birds, cats, dogs, and so much more.

Please see there’s so much in life to be thankful for, even during dark storms.

Hold onto those things when you have nothing else. Theres beauty held within life’s every form.

You’re important to the world and you’re here for a reason even if you can’t see it in this moment.

So, I’m thankful you’re here.

Be kind to yourself, always.

[nadezhda7]

Необходимо ли е “всичко да е наред” или това да си силен според теб е нещо лошо? 🥱

Не, не исках да кажа, че е лошо, съжалявам!

[glowcowboy]

as someone who constantly gets stuck in ruminative cycles, figuring out a way to stop the cycle before it gets out of hand has been incredibly formative for me. if you find yourself ruminating or unable to stop the cycling, here’s a place to start.

am i learning, processing, or ruminating? it’s important to be able to distinguish between the three. learning is when you receive new information that updates your frame of understanding. processing is when you study a situation to help yourself understand it. ruminating is when you cycle over the same thought repeatedly, often causing distress. learning and processing are productive, while rumination is destructive.

which theme is this? understanding the root or the spiral has helped me to untangle why the rumination feels so intense and scary. (example: i’ve been ruminating on one specific interaction with someone where i think they might’ve misinterpreted what i meant. this is my theme of fear around being misunderstood.)

how do i respond? (example: okay, this is that theme of being misunderstood. but it is not my job to make myself perfectly understood. the people i have around me can ask clarifying questions if they’re confused, and they are willing to meet me in the middle because they want to understand.)

don’t feed the raccoons tuna. (this is an example from my therapist that i love! essentially, don’t feed the beast or it will keep coming back. distract yourself, journal, listen to music, etc.)

[wizardarchetypes]

anyway every time i post about ocd people start tagging the post like "wait this isn't normal?" and i always like to remind people that intrusive thoughts are normal. pretty much everyone experiences them. "what if i jumped off this balcony?" "what if i crashed my car right now for no reason?" "what if i yelled a curse word in the middle of this wedding?" everyone thinks these things from time to time. it's disordered thinking when the distress starts becoming intolerable.

"am i normal" is not as helpful question to ask as "are intrusive thoughts causing me frequent distress?" and "would my life be better if i could find a way to feel less distress/learn to tolerate the distress?"

millions and millions of people have ocd. having ocd is normal. you're normal. but what if you could feel better? what if living everyday in your own mind and body could be tolerable? is that something you want? need? these are questions to ask.

[nadezhda7]

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[nadezhda7]

[kosmogrl]

[ceruleanheaven]

i just wanna do nothinggggg 😭😭😭😭😭 which is like what im already doing but i wanna do it in a way that doesnt actively ruin my life 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[artstore-pl]

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[girlwhoisgoingtobeokay]

from rayne fisher-quann’s latest substack post

[b-beams]

Plain text: The process of becoming yourself is not a corporate desk job, and it is not homework, and it is not an unticked box languishing on a to-do list. You do not have to treat your flaws like action items that must be systematically targeted and eliminated in order to receive a return on investment. You have no supervisor; you should not be punished when you fail. Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other. 

It’s hard, certainly — it’s painful and exhausting and fundamentally terrifying to rip yourself open and leave the guts at the mercy of the people you choose to love. But if I know anything, I know this: It’s better than being alone. 

[pup-purgatory]

my therapist sent me this

[shrinkrayve]

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