Fucking weekend drinking bastard

[flightsofwonder]

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

[uncle-dre2-deactivated20210813]

[highhoneypiee]

Pick a bottle any bottle lol

[artisanalbooty]

[volumenviridis]

I recently read an article about a therapy group for depressed people who had all attempted suicide at some point. The breakthrough question for them was, “If your goal was to be just as miserable as possible, what would you do?” Most of them listed things like not getting enough sleep, or isolating themselves from everyone… the list goes on, but the point is, they listed things they already do. But now they saw those “coping mechanisms” for what they really were: things that were actively making their condition worse.

I read that article at 2:00 AM, asked myself, am I TRYING to be miserable tomorrow? And it was easier than usual to put my phone down and fall asleep. Even my intrusive “lying down” thoughts about meaninglessness and existential dread were easier to suppress when I framed them as things I’d think about to purposefully make myself feel as awful as possible.

[crystalwitch-in-the-tardis]

Fuck that is helpful

[prime-tiktoks]

[taketheshield]

@awolfinmycity

[latinotiktok]

[willkill4pudding]

Translation: Person behind camera; *knock down one card* “Go.” Other person;“Is your character mentally stable?” Person behind Camera; *Looks at card* “Yes” Other person; *Slaps down all but one card* “IT’S MOMO”

[sighinastorm]

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS.  THERE WERE ONLY A FEW DOZEN NOTES WHEN I SAW IT LAST.

[taketheshield]

I love this so much

[anxietyproblem]

[wolfinthethorns]

Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.

[castielific]

I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in. 

 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 

I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 

People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 

Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad. 

[taketheshield]

"Sam is not a petty bitch; he only wishes ill on people for the good of humanity"

[catchymemes]

[prof-grace-aspen]

This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.

I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!

[mieaouy]

Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well

[sushinfood]

My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.

[octopodhotrod]

This technique literally changed my life

[taketheshield]

Just did this and it more or less worked (if I try to hear a certain ringing frequency it's there but if I zone out it's almost nothing). It's so weird not having the ringing

[taketheshield]

Love it when you have a dream you are being let go from your job and the least realistic thing is that in dream you can jog for two min without coughing up death

[onlyborrowedmemes]

Yeah fairly accurate I believe

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

“dark stuff”

[trustismostimportant]

What book is this?

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Physics

[taketheshield]

Sends to my students

[taketheshield]

Trying to put some modicum of efforts into some friendships... I realize I need to be more active if they gonna be successful but also I'm feeling kinda isolated all the same... Putting in a lot of emotional labor at work understandably makes it harder to effort in personal life, but is not a substitute and I now have enough downtime at once to realize

[taketheshield]

Can't sleep so I'm vague planning Europe trip. Looking at the street layout of Paris for what must be the first time ever cause I am getting some honest to god Anxiety looking at this cluster fuck

[taketheshield]

Its so weird I've had plenty of social interaction the last few days yet I'm all of a sudden feeling alone.

I'm also like bitch you spent half your summer staring at your computer screen ignoring that other things exist and now you gonna go and be socialemotionally needy

Also that school starts in two days (fuuuuuuuuuuuuuk) so that is gonna kill all my desire to social so it's fine maybe probably. And then when it isn't I'll start trying to find social groups. Or just go to new york or new haven...

[taketheshield]

I am so filled with joy whenever Judy Gold goes on MR. She is my anger translator.

[taketheshield]

God... I used to love listening to people dunk on libertarians because libertarians are batshit. But surprise surprise when a Republican is elected they all disappear. Now I have to listen to people dunk on Nazis to scratch that itch and holy Jesus are Nazis deluded and scary. Like every time I'm still somehow more amazed and terrified. Every time my expectations are blown away.

[taketheshield]

The $600 small room in someone's house but I could walk to work and groceries (but the specific area looks pretty run down)... $700 rooms on the other side of town which look like a standard late 20s roommate share kinda place and are downtown accessible enough... the $900+ rooms in ppls luxury highrise apts which I was sure would start even higher but also I don't need / won't use amenities so that price is really just for a place with a nice aesthetic

[taketheshield]

Had fun tonight. For the manyth year in a row I out drank TJ but did not actually get very drunk and will prob regret in the morning. Honestly surprised I didn't hear any disparaging comments about the squad or Bernie but maybe people wizened up to the fact that I will have A Lot to say when you bring shit up. Need to start apartment hunting now that the puzzle competition has cone and gone (and I did really badly, so if I want this to be a new hobby of mine I'm gonna have to get more diligent)

[taketheshield]

Now my feelings are on "And the war is never won; the enemy is poverty..." because yeah. Because your goal is not to win the war. The goal is to hoard, and keep away The Poors.