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“Mental illness is not a personal failure.” Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland

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this year when you hate yourself or deprecate your worth as a human being, add a but. you don’t have to believe it, but just add a but. “but i have friends who love me.” “but ive made it through everything so far.” “but i dont have to produce something to be worth something.”

its not much, but its a start. you deserve that.

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2018 is about little victories. we’re not putting pressure on ourselves to become everything we’ve always wanted to be because nobody can do that in a year. instead we’re focusing on making forward strides and we’re celebrating every single win no matter how small.

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Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”

By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.

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