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Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

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I dont think its real

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where’s that post that’s like idk who jasmine is but thank you queen for the rice

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You guys really liked my last poll so

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A commonly overlooked symptom of depression is anhedonia, the inability to feel joy or pleasure. The reason that it’s easy to overlook is that it’s easier to miss the absence of something that’s not around all the time than it is to miss a symptom that causes active distress, such as feeling tired and miserable all the time.

Anhedonia is good at being a persistent undercurrent to your life. My aunt, who has major depressive disorder, related to me that she figured out that something was wrong when she looked at the daffodils she had planted blooming, and couldn’t recognize the emotion that she felt when she looked at them. It had been long enough since she had felt happy that she lost the ability to recognize the emotion.

It’s a particularly dangerous depressive symptom, because it robs you of the ability to feel those little spots of joy that keep a lot of people going, while not doing anything to impair your ability to function. If you don’t know that this is a treatable symptom of depression, it’s easy to assume that your ability to feel good is permanently broken, and decide to commit suicide because you don’t want to live like that. It’s not an irrational conclusion, but it is an uninformed one, and everyone deserves to have all the information when making a major decision.

This is what a lot of questionnaires are trying to look for when they ask about “loss of enjoyment”. If you can’t remember a loss of enjoyment because you can’t remember enjoyment, then you probably have anhedonia. If you struggle to define how it is to feel “happy”, “content”, or “good”, or how it feels when you feel those emotions, you probably have anhedonia. If you can’t remember feeling any of those emotions for a week or more, you probably have anhedonia.

Symptoms commonly co-occurring with anhedonia are fatigue (often the cause), clear and thoughtful consideration of suicide, loss of desire to socialize or do activities that used to make you happy, and weight loss (due to lack of enjoyment of food).

This section is anecdotal. In what I have observed, anhedonia due to fatigue rarely responds well to depression treatment unless depression was causing the fatigue. If fatigue and anhedonia are co-occurring and are not both alleviated by depression treatment, consider other causes for the fatigue.

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everybody thinks having ocd is all about touching stoves or hand washing when in reality it’s really about having this guy inside your brain

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May Writing Challenge

This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊

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forgot to share possibly the funniest thing from kamals sfm stream which was following one of the psa vids he just stops and goes “chat anybody here got this mental illness???”

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forgot to share possibly the funniest thing from kamals sfm stream which was following one of the psa vids he just stops and goes “chat anybody here got this mental illness???”

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I don't wish for decent income so I can pay bills, I wish I had a decent income so I could commission artists to draw my OCs.

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Do you think the WoL dreams of Ardbert sometimes. Or. Like….

They unified their souls. Do you think that changed them. A WoL who used to hate a certain food finding themselves craving and loving it (perhaps Ardbert loved it, when he was corporeal) like. Am I making sense?

… that got off topic really quick but like, idk. I think it could be interesting. What would that do to you?

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come shadow, come follow me!

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he was also really upset Chris “didn’t even see the context of why (he) was there” bc he didn’t make it up onto the roof

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drugs disc sorry but

lot of good moments happened last night and i can't remember most of them well enough to share them tho maybe auden has some to chime in with but it was really funny how kamal streamed for like an hour and a half and then walked away to get water only to come back and be like 'im so sorry im too high i cant do this' and end the stream

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should be up in a minute if all goes well!

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ok we are gonna play sfm in about 15 minutes at 8:45!! streaming mostly for one friend but anyone is welcome to come along