Creating a new pinned post because of something someone recently said to me.
First off, everyone deserves to feel loved and safe, if you can't give that to another person, the least you can do is give it to yourself.
Second, mental illness is a real thing that should be taken seriously. Black mold causes depression and anxiety in people with long term exposure to it (brain fog too, make it hard to even think). I recently (as of the time of making this post) have been out of an apartment that I didn't know had black mold in it for more than a year. Previous to that I was living in that apartment for 7 or so years where the mold was only found within the last 6 months of me living there (a major cause of why I moved out and had to throw out a whole bunch of my stuff). I lived with depression and anxiety for a good portion of the time I lived there. One summer I went through a bottle of 80 capplets of advil cold and sinus in 2 months near the end of living there in order to feel clear enough to go to work. It's taken me 8 moths to get back to an 80% functional place. No one should have to live with that, and not just because I lived with it, go see a doctor, get that shit worked out.
Three (and most importantly) love yourself.
