To Write Love On Her Arms-University of Southern Indiana Chapter

This is the blog for To Write Love On Her Arms - University of Southern Indiana. To Write Love on Her Arms UChapters are dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. UChapters exist to inspire, encourage and invest directly into treatment and recovery both locally and around the world. By building community, we believe UChapters can organize gatherings, cultivate awareness, and create a network that actively raises funds and reaches people with a message of hope and help for those who are hurting

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Come join us for Open Mic Night on November 10th at 7pm in the student life lounge. Play Music? Like Karaoke? Have some writing you want to showcase? Show us your creativity at open mic night! We hope to see you there!

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Are you worried about the new semester? Come to this week's TWLOHA Meeting to learn effective self care tools for the semester and to hang out and have fun before the week starts. Hope to see you there!

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This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, and tonight, TLOHWA USI held a candlelight vigil to honor those who lost their battle with suicide, depression, and other mental health issues and to reach out to those who are still fighting. Remember hope is real and that though you might not feel it, you have a profound effect on the world and on those around you.

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Hello TWLOHA USI Members!!

We are having an informal meeting this sunday just to discuss the coming year, We will be meeting in UC 2207 and will be getting food after. Come on by!

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Happy first day of classes everyone!! We hope that it's great :) #twloha #uchapters

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Some people say that eating disorders aren’t real, that they are simply a diet gone wrong. They think the solution is as simple as, “Just eat.” People think we’re just doing it for attention, that we’re vain and selfish. But nobody dies from an eating disorder for attention. I did not destroy my life for the sake of being more desirable, for the sake of having more eyes on me. Eating disorders are very real and very dangerous. They have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, but struggling with one doesn’t have to be a death sentence. There is hope in recovery, and there is help available.

Shannon Mynheir, “What I Lost” (via twloha)

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Once, my brother told me that he wasn’t sure how to ask me about my mental state. He told me that the words that most readily came to him were, “How’s your head?” He wanted to know if this was an OK way to ask, and it was. It became his simple way to ask a complex question with millions of different meanings – among them: “Are you OK? Are you alive? Are you feeling alive? Is there anything I can do to make you feel more alive? Are you OK? Have you eaten today? Did you go to your appointment? Are you OK?

Fortesa Latifi, “They Can Surprise You” (via twloha)

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I told him I would understand if this made him change his mind and that I wanted him to take his time and come to a deliberate decision. In my mind, it was no small thing to decide to love someone with depression. In his mind, it seemed simple. He said he was all in.

Fortesa Latifi, “They Can Surprise You” (via twloha)

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Floating (2016) by Gianni Passeretti

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Please take care of yourself. 

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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thích Nhất Hạnh (via themindmovement)

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Saying yes to counseling means choosing something greater for myself than the struggles that have gotten me to this point. It’s going to be hard, because life is hard, but that doesn’t mean life can’t be good, too. I’m choosing to be OK with the fact that I have struggles, but I’m not going to be OK with those struggles defining me anymore. I’m choosing to say when I have hard days. I’m choosing to see this as victory, because that’s what it is. I’m choosing to trust and hope for more in my life than the chaos, hopelessness, and shame that comes with not dealing with anxiety and depression. This is a victory: a beautiful, life-changing victory that is as difficult as it is triumphant.

Emily Allison, “When Saying Yes to Counseling Feels Like Failure” (via twloha)

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Some days that will be tough to remember. But I’m going to choose to stay focused on that victory and hold on to the hope of more victories to follow. Needing help is nothing to be ashamed of and getting that help is a cause for celebration. Reaching out is a sign of strength. Even if you feel that you aren’t that strong, even if you feel like there’s no way you could ever take that step, trust me, you can. You are worth it.

Emily Allison, “When Saying Yes to Counseling Feels Like Failure” (via twloha)

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“I can’t change the world, but I can change the world in me.”-Bono

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I’ve had a lot of things taken from me, but the story has always been mine.

Meaghan Ford, We Don’t Tell These Stories For Fun (via twloha)

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Saying yes to counseling is a victory. But it still can feel like failure because of the lie that says this proves you aren’t strong enough. That lie says you are weak and broken and beyond repair. I struggle a lot with lies. I believe terrible things about my imperfections, about what they mean for my worth. So when I finally said yes to counseling, instead of rejoicing in my own bravery and willingness to fight for myself, I got stuck on one thought: I failed. I failed to handle this all on my own. I failed to pull myself together, just like I forced myself to do every other time anxiety and depression tore me apart. I failed to just get over it. I failed to keep up appearances that I have my life together. I failed

Emily Allison, “When Saying Yes to Counseling Feels Like Failure” (via twloha)