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adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline

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Do not let them consume you. They don’t define who you are.

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it’s just one of those croissant days

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that thursday feeling.

reading depressioncomix inspired me to do a little comic about my own day-to-day experience.

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due to personal reasons I’ll be in my bedroom making no noise and pretending that I don’t exist

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At some point in your life, you will probably have a bad friend.

At some point in your life, you will probably BE a bad friend.

A bad friend doesn’t necessarily mean an abusive friend. It could just be someone who is incapable of being supportive when you need them to be. Or someone who you don’t really have chemistry with, but still feel an obligation to be friends with. It could be someone who expected too much of you. It could even be because of bad communication. It can be unintentional. It can just be a brief rough patch. It can sometimes be irreparable. It is not the end of the world, even if it feels like it in the moment. It’ll be okay. Just breathe, acknowledge what went wrong, and if it was your fault, accept the responsibility.

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oh. maybe. maybe this it. maybe that’s the problem.

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parents be like you can’t imagine how hard it is for us to deal with your mental illness

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hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas

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it’s never too late. go after what you want! it doesn’t matter if you’re 15 or 25 or 65. there’s no deadline or fixed schedule you need to follow. starting over or starting late is okay! go at your own pace! 

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Life doesn’t end at 23. 30 isn’t old. Fetishising youth as the ultimate desirable characteristic in a person is actively harmful to both young and old people. Some of us lost our teenage years to abuse and recovery, and can only begin living when we’re at a different life stage.  Literally knock it off, the lot of you.

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time is hard

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Recovery doesn’t mean being happy all the time. Recovery doesn’t mean having boundless energy and never showing symptoms and being a ray of sunshine at every moment. 

You can still be in recovery if you have bad days. You can still be in recovery if you show symptoms. Recovery is having fewer bad days, coping better with your symptoms. 

Recovery is having the coping mechanisms in place to deal with bad days when they come along so they aren’t as bad as they might have been before, and not falling into unhealthy habits that may have made them worse, made them last longer, or made them happen more often. 

Recovery is prioritising the energy you do have effectively, and doing things that help to maximise that energy. Recovery is forgiving yourself for being tired and allowing yourself rest. 

You don’t have to aim for perfectly, unfalteringly happy to be better, you just have to aim for better. 

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Me: I’m scared I might secretly be an awful person and I’m just fooling everyone into thinking I’m good.

Therapist: the fact that you care so deeply about being a bad person is proof that you’re actually good. Bad people don’t mind being bad.

Me: oH NO, I have fooled her too,