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Does anyone else have that ADHD feel where you know you gotta get shit done but as soon as you start to think about what you have to get done you get overwhelmed and you freeze up and don’t get anything accomplished and feel worse than you did before?

#this is like my 1 source of anxiety

fllowey

a collection of autism feelings

- someone is speaking to me with words right now, but i cant hear it

- *stims for the first time in a while* HOLY SHIT

- need. headphones.

- why did my voice come out of my mouth that way

- Music I Like Must Be Loud Enough To Consume My Entire Body

- NUMB?eRS¿???

- one foot stepped on a sidewalk crack so now i must step on a crack with my other foot for them to feel even again

- IM GGONNA EAT MY WHOLE RNTIRE SPECIAL INTEREST

- m u s t o r g a n i z e

#well shit

exercicedestyle

castrel64

what if they were girlfriend tho

#Oh hell yes #Animal Crossing

tastefullyoffensive

(via JazzTrombonist)

marilythscales

#this speaks to me

marauders4evr

Friendly reminder that Vincent van Gogh willingly checked himself into an asylum so that he could get better, resulting in him creating some of the most iconic paintings of his entire career, done in the asylum, when he was being treated 24/7, because he finally didn’t have to struggle with his demons and could instead focus on his muse, WHICH WERE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Remember this little insignificant painting?

How about this one?

Check this one out:

All of these and more were painted in the asylum when he was receiving treatment for his mental illnesses and I know I just said that but I said it again and I’m saying it a third time until you dramatic abled assholes understand!

VINCENT VAN GOGH

- KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY ILL

- WANTED TO CHANGE THAT

- WENT TO AN ASYLUM

- GOT THE HELP HE NEEDED

- PAINTED SOME ICONIC MASTERPIECES AS A RESULT!

SO DON’T YOU DARE COME OUT HERE WITH THIS, “I WISH I WAS DEPRESSED SO I COULD BE AS CREATIVE AS VAN GOGH” BULLSHIT BECAUSE EVEN HE KNEW THAT HIS DEMONS WERE HARMING HIS WORK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS HEALTH, AND HE DID EVERYTHING WITHIN HIS POWER TO FIGHT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL THEY ENDED UP WINNING!

asexualmew

This is also incredibly important for any creative persons dealing with mental illness, and their parents.

Receiving mental help improves your craft, not hurt it. Before getting put on medication for the first time to treat my mental illnesses, my mom expressed to me how she’s worried about my getting treatment because of my art. Regardless, your mental health should be more important anyway, but, honestly, it’s a lot harder to produce good art when you struggle getting out of bed, let alone creating masterpieces. When you’re in more health, improving your craft comes much easier!

grandparomeaskblog

Personally I think the most beautifull painting of him was this one:

He made it when he heard about the birth of his nephew who was named after him. Still in the asylum but really happy for his brother! “How glad I was when the news came… I should have greatly preferred him to call the boy after Father, of whom I have been thinking so much these days, instead of after me; but seeing it has now been done, I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, big branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”

justasillynerd

Oh I have sucb rants about how “good” art comes while suffering.

No.

look at me.

The idea of the “suffering artist” comes from bunch of alcholic, drug abusing, womanizers trying to justify their bad life choices as some sort of artistic angst.

IT IS 100% BULLSHIT

Take your meds, get your therapy, be happy, and live life

The art will be there.

jumpingjacktrash

it’s true that i wrote a higher volume of words when i was untreated. that’s because i was using writing to avoid my life. i spend more time these days on self-care. but the words i do write are of much higher quality, and my craft in plotting and organizing, collaboration and research, has gone through the roof.

i used to just put my head down for 16 hours and pound out ten thousand words from a pit of misery, and shove them in a file named with a keymash to collect dust. now i spend 4 hours on research and planning, an hour talking to my collab partner, and an hour writing a thousand words that are structural and focused and advance the project, then go have a nice bath and text my friends pictures of my cat. my work day’s less than half as long and infinitely more productive.

(and in case you’re imagining those 10k misery files were some kind of De Profundis, no, they were mostly porn.)

i am a MUCH better writer now that i’m on meds that work and have had some years of good counselling.

you won’t lose your creativity if you get help, darlings. that’s YOU. it’s not the disease. it’s yours. you’re the artist. what makes you better isn’t suffering, it’s practice, and you’ll practice more and easier when you’re happier.

notelvira

i wouldn’t usually post this on my artblog, but it deserves to be said.

discordlikesappless

Preview of the first episode of “Craig of the Creek”.

#that looks cute!

kelpforestdwellers

friends. please.

if you are trying to express that people are treating you, a member of [marginalized group] in a shitty way and it’s unfair and they should stop

and you get the urge to say, “you would never say that to [member of other marginalized group]” or any similar concept

please. don’t. because they do. they do say that. i imagine this applies in many cases but I’m thinking here of those posts that say “people say my anxiety and depression aren’t real illnesses and I should just get over it. they’d never say that to someone with a physical illness!” they do. constantly. and that kind of pressure seriously worsens our lives and sometimes kills us.

you don’t deserve whatever you’re trying to get people to stop doing but maybe don’t? throw other people under the bus when trying to make your point.

ingridbergman-deactivated202001

I cannot believe this

#I don't ID with capricorn at all though so I might redo it

aaitwo-deactivated20250816

debate: is a really long sword-length but still otherwise knife-like knife valid to be considered a knife, or is it now a sword because it’s long

aaitwo-deactivated20250816

notabrobro

@nagunkgunk

lord-kitschener

It’s a knword and it’s Valid

acidanarchist-deactivated201808

I don’t wanna like Kill The Joke but this brings up a really cool fact about swords in ~14th-16th century Germany! The only people who were allowed to own Real Swords were the royalty and nobility BUT! Everyone else was allowed to own knives. The definition of a knife, however, was based on not length but handle construction, and to some extent how it was sharpened. The handle had to be constructed Like So with 2 pieces of wood sandwiching the metal tang.

Only one edge was allowed to be sharpened, but oftentimes a small part (a couple inches) of the short edge (e.g. the edge that wasn’t sharp) would be sharpened, and weapon design often allowed for this

In this way, something that looked like This, a messer of just over a meter in length…

…would be legally considered a knife, and therefore allowable for non-nobility to possess. (you can also see the bit on the back of the tip that would be sharpened)

So @swordmutual, there’s a not definitive but certainly interesting historical perspective on your question

kimreesesdaughter

The year is 2018. Your bills are on autopay. You just got paid and you still have $1200 from the last check. When you want something, you buy it without moving money around. Your credit cards are paid off. You and your friends have 2 international trips planned and paid for this year. Your parents are in great health and you’re able to help if they need anything. You love your job. Your desired creative career is falling into place and you get to take your little cousins to Six Flags and Universal Studios over the Summer. Your relationships are healthy and supportive. All of the toxic energy from the past 6 years is gone. You going to concerts, eating good across the states and your crib has art and warmth throughout. 2018 is going to be so good to you.