I needed this.
Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!
Yeah⦠Not gonna lie⦠I criedā¦
We need more people like this
Goddamn it stop making me feel human
The therapist I wanna be.
Text in the image:
āIām a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently itās saved a few lives.ā
I donāt like the phrase āa cry for help.ā I just donāt like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, āIām thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,ā the last thing I see is helplessness.
I think your depression has been beating you up for years. Itās called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that youāve forgotten that itās wrong. You donāt see any good in yourself, and you donāt have any hope.
But still here you are: youāve come over to me, banged on my door and said, āHEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I donāt care if itās a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!ā
How is that helpless? I think thatās incredible. Youāre like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, youāre out of ammo, youāre malnourished, and youāve probably caught some kind of jungle virus thatās making you hallucinate giant spiders.
And youāre still just going, āGIVE ME A STICK. IāM NOT DYING OUT HERE.ā āA cry for helpā makes it sound like Iām supposed to take pity on you, but you donāt need my pity. This isnāt pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.
With NO hope, running on NOTHING, youāre ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if thatās what it takes to get to safety.
All Iām doing is handing out sticks.
Youāre the one saying alive.
I legit cried at this. Iāve needed to hear it put this way. Bless this post.
Every time I see this post I stop to read the whole image. It always helps ā even on the good days.
Because it wasnāt weakness. It wasnāt shameful to seek help. It wasnāt pathetic to ācry for helpā. I was looking for a stick, be that from myself or from someone else. I was trying to find a way out. I was trying to heal myself.
this is fuckin incredible.Ā
Iām sorry if I repost to many of these, but if it could be someoneās āstickā then itās worth it



















