The Power of Creativity

A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.-Bianca Furtado-Art Major at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

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(randomly gets sad at 2 pm instead of 11 pm like i usually do) variety is the spice of life

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Watercolor figure study

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Visual Language -- Self Portrait--

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Lost is a lovely place to find yourself

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Polaroids are life

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I often have shaky hands and sometimes it’s difficult to draw lines, so now I decided to just make shaky lines.

[r-ed-iscover-peace]

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except your brain?

Ruby Wax 

Reblogging the SHIT out of this.

(via livelifebyliving)

[neuroatypicalotp]

Reality of what you get from a healthy romantic relationship when you’re mentally ill:

another person in your life who deeply supports you

encouragement to take care of yourself

not feeling alone (esp if partner is also mentally ill)

little moments of joy

What you don’t realistically get from a healthy romantic relationship when you’re mentally ill:

a cure that makes it all magically go away

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when an artist wants to show you their art

or a writer wants you to read what they’ve written

it’s quite often an expression of trust

because a poem or a story or a painting are often things that come from the heart

little pieces of the artists themselves

and if they’re willing to share it with you

you should appreciate it

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THANK GOD SOMEONE KNOWS BECAUSE I SWEAR TO GOD WHEN I SHOW IT TO PEOPLE THEY THINK IM BRAGGING

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Figures

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You don’t know why you’re exhausted? You’re fighting a war inside your head every single day. If that’s not exhausting I don’t know what is.

My therapist (via daianayumi)

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Drawing Final - Schizophrenia / Outsider art influence

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“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.”

"Gone Girl", Gillian Flynn (via cassiequotes)

[wolfwithafoxtail]

it’s important to remember that there will always be more stars in the universe than seconds you are sad, more raindrops than moments you’ve wished you weren’t you, more flowers than times you had to say goodbye. it’s not much, but it’s important to remember.

F.J. (via wolfwithafoxtail)

[princessdanhowell]

1. When you cut yourself, clean and bandage it. 2. Do not start smoking cigarettes because the boy who broke your heart does. 3. When you want to kill yourself, don’t. 4. Cutting calories doesn’t do anything but make you unhappy. 5. If the number on the scale rises, throw it out. 6. The first girl you ever “date” is going to call the police on you even though she lives three thousand miles away, because you’re going to tell her that you’re not in a good mental state shortly after you’ve “broken up”. 7. When you want to kill yourself, don’t. 8. Break up with the boy who says, “You had a sexy phase!” when you tell him that you’ve dated a girl before. 9. Dating your friends is not always the best idea, but you can still be friends after you’ve broken up with her. 10. Your mother will try to become your best friend because you’re leaving for college soon. Let her. 11. When you want to kill yourself, don’t. 12. Your closest friend will stop talking to you when you leave for college. 13. It’s okay to cry. 14. When you want to kill yourself, don’t. 15. When you cut yourself again, clean and bandage it. Do not be ashamed. 16. Your anxiety is going to try and control your entire life. Tell it to shut the hell up, because you’re trying to live and that task is hard enough as it is. 17. The past has a funny way of coming back in the form of you developing a crush on another friend. 18. Try not to hate yourself for breaking up with your boyfriend. 19. If you’re still smoking, apologize silently to your mother. 20. When you want to kill yourself, don’t.

(via cottaterra) this is so beautiful

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