Leslie🖤

Work. 🤑 Family. ❤️ Loyalty Over Love 💪 Truth. 🙏 Decisions. 🧐 Outcomes ✨ 05/23/15 , 03/05/20 👯‍♀️Big Scorpio ♏️ Soul Ties… BIG KNOTS 🪽 🎀 https://linktr.ee/angelbarbieles

[8nin]

hey sorry i acted weird the other day i was trying so hard to act normal that it backfired

[notalkingggg]

Guess this is her first time seeing herself 😂

[openmindpsych]

shoutout to people who don't speak in complete monotone but still have a smaller range of emotional expression than others.

shoutout to people who often get misinterpreted because they express a lot of different emotions in very similar ways.

shoutout to people who have the "wrong" reaction to a situation (e.g. laughing when bad things happen) and get treated worse for it.

shoutout to people who have exaggerated emotional expression and gets seen as overdramatic or manipulative.

shoutout to people who struggle to express their emotions in the "right way".

[notalkingggg]

Wake up and choose kindness. First. Sit and recollect yesterday and think about what you wish you could have done differently. Then…. Approach today as it were a repeat of yesterday. Only instead, use it as a redo. A start over. A chance to do different what you would have done the day before. 💪 life is not very giving and sometimes it does not give life the next day. So when you are given life that next day. Be thankful.

[notalkingggg]

Honestly, I just started reading this and if anybody wants to tag along and learn things from it, I will be posting things that I learned from it that I think are helpful and that I think others should definitely read. So I’m doing the groundwork for you guys. You just have to follow along. :)

[notalkingggg]

Good find. 🤓📖

Happy sunrise! Dont demagnetize! ☀️🧲💪

[notalkingggg]

The walls I’ve built so far are good at keeping people out. At this point, I think they revolve because they are good at pushing away as well. Constant fight or flight. Survival mode is all I know. Love doesn’t come easy with me…. But if you’re still here. After it all…. You’re my favorite person. I need extra reassurance. I need the attention. And I need the compassion. I am not easy…. Never said I would be… I’m Leslie Anne… and that’s all I can be.

[notalkingggg]

Wake up and choose kindness. First. Sit and recollect yesterday and think about what you wish you could have done differently. Then…. Approach today as it were a repeat of yesterday. Only instead, use it as a redo. A start over. A chance to do different what you would have done the day before. 💪 life is not very giving and sometimes it does not give life the next day. So when you are given life that next day. Be thankful.

[notalkingggg]

The walls I’ve built so far are good at keeping people out. At this point, I think they revolve because they are good at pushing away as well. Constant fight or flight. Survival mode is all I know. Love doesn’t come easy with me…. But if you’re still here. After it all…. You’re my favorite person. I need extra reassurance. I need the attention. And I need the compassion. I am not easy…. Never said I would be… I’m Leslie Anne… and that’s all I can be.

[notalkingggg]

Good find. 🤓📖

Happy sunrise! Dont demagnetize! ☀️🧲💪

[notalkingggg]

Good find. 🤓📖

Happy sunrise! Dont demagnetize! ☀️🧲💪

[notalkingggg]

Turkey Burgers ROCK.

[notalkingggg]

Turkey Burgers ROCK.

[notalkingggg]

Wake up and choose kindness. First. Sit and recollect yesterday and think about what you wish you could have done differently. Then…. Approach today as it were a repeat of yesterday. Only instead, use it as a redo. A start over. A chance to do different what you would have done the day before. 💪 life is not very giving and sometimes it does not give life the next day. So when you are given life that next day. Be thankful.

[notalkingggg]

I am finally back in action. I am now at a normal serving job at Texas Roadhouse in Paducah Kentucky. I am working on saving for a car. I have my little music things I am working on. And now. I just would like to try and gain the confidence to share with everyone my journey. I’d still like to be a dancer on my off time but that’s when I get back on some wheels. I just figured. Why not redownload tumblr and use it as a diary. Everyone loved when I went live and we all talked. Why not just type what’s been going on. Update you guys. Along while letting go of whatever is on the mind. Currently doing laundry and begging I get it finished so I don’t have to do it tomorrow. And then there are the dishes. Me and them may fight. I work a double tomorrow on the eclipse and I hope everyone enjoys it! Thank y’all for loving me!

[selfcaremyselfcare]

[schizopositivity]

If you're talking about mental health issues in someone who just gave birth, don't just call it "postpartum" and only mean postpartum depression and assume everyone only understands that means postpartum depression, because postpartum psychosis exists too.

When you're talking about neurodiversity/mental illness, don't just say "the spectrum" and only mean the autism spectrum and assume everyone understands that only means the autism spectrum, because the schizophrenia spectrum exists too.

I understand that most people think that schizophrenia or psychosis isn't the norm. Most people don't include us in general conversations. But that doesn't mean we don't exist. Postpartum psychosis is very real and should be talked about more. Schizophrenia is a spectrum and more people should understand that.

Those of us with psychosis or schizophrenia are used to being excluded but it hurts a bit more when we're being completely excluded from conversations specifically about mental illness. By defaulting "postpartum" or "the spectrum" to not include us, it feels like you're saying postpartum psychosis doesn't exist, or schizophrenia isn't also a spectrum. When you treat postpartum or the spectrum as if they only mean one thing, it implies that there is no other postpartum mental health conditions, or no other mental illness spectrums. It's not that hard to add an extra word to be specific.

I know this isn't a huge deal, and I might just be nit picking. But I think these two examples show how those of us with psychosis or schizophrenia are always excluded, even from other mentally ill people. Many people don't know that postpartum psychosis even exists. Many people don't know that schizophrenia is also a spectrum. And the general understanding won't change, if the only people using inclusive language are those of us who have it.