#black mental wellness

[rome-theeempire]

Being black is getting treatment for everything except your mental health.

Being black is knowing there's something wrong but your family cracking it down to white washing

Black ppl deserve access to diagnosis. Black ppl's mental health is just as important. Being mentally ill or neurodivergent isn't "white sh*t" and perpetuating that racist stereotype will only hurt our community.

[jiraikeibabes]

Since black women are so hyper sexualized I feel like no one will believe me. No one will see me as a victim of sa. I’m supposed to be this strong black women but I’m not, I couldn’t fight back.

[itsstillsweetiebythealtar]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but baby I hope them rainy days let up for you soon ❤️ I really do.

[weirdo09]

just a little shout out to the black boys/men: i love you and you have every right to cry and be vulnerable. you have a right to talk about your feelings and put your guard down once in a while. you don’t always have to be tough and you don’t always have to be the pinnacle of black masculinity. showing emotion is not feminine nor a female trait, it is what all humans are born with. you are not soft for crying, crying shows that you have held a burden/shown regular emotion and you’ve been strong enough to finally let it out. (not saying that if you aren’t able to cry, you are not human)

i know therapy and mental health is severely untouched in our community but just know that you can always write down how you feel, putting your emotions into healthy coping mechanisms. the world treats y’all harshly but you can be soft with yourself, be good to yourself because you’re the only you you have. you may feel like the world is against you (which it is) but you can always talk to family who you feel safe with.

you feeling emotions is not a crime.

you feeling emotions is not a crime.

you feeling emotions is not a crime.

you feeling emotions is not a crime.

YOU FEELING EMOTIONS IS NOT A CRIME.

[keepinit-g]

Just wanted to put together some positive quotes for those who may need to see them🤎🤍.

[black-mental-health-matters]

This does not make a man weak, or less of a man. A man who is in touch with himself and comfortable and strong enough to express themselves, that is a real man. Men are losing their lives, Black men, Black CHILDREN!!! In particular, because society says it’s not okay,but it is okay…. It is deep and acknowledgment and unification are all vital to empowering men…. Be strong for your man as he should be for you, too. Or your brother, father, cousin, friend, … we need to get the village mentality back…

[pocahontislhdc]

Mental Health Check In:

How Are You Feeling? 💞

[miscellaneousjay]

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”—Buddha🐍🔥

[chaospixiedust]

I've been procrastinating on actually starting this blog. I don't know why. I wanted to do it. I made every step up to actually posting weeks ago. I chose my name and made a theme I like and then... I closed the app and didn't come back.

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This, right here, is why I wanted to start a blog in the first place. One of my many symptoms is inability to motivate myself without outside influence or pressure. I wanted to make a blog detailing my mental health journey and I couldn't because I just wanted to. Nobody told me to do it or gave me a deadline (that I'd just procrastinate until the last minute anyway).

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So yeah, mental health. Mental health in black people. Mental health in black queer. Mental health in black enbies. Mental health and kink. Metal health and polyamory. I sit in this wonderfully complicated place in intersectionality. I'm still figuring it all out. I have no idea what I'm doing most of the time. But I figure putting it all down in a safe space, all in one place might help me or someone else who stumbles over it.

[rome-theeempire]

There are narcissists in my family and they're so fascinating to me, cuz how do you think you're better than me when I'm ACTUALLY doing all the things that you LIE about doing???

[pinkieloveheartpastel]

Positivity:

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So I’ve been thinking about my life as a black person experiencing so much bullshit, and just trying my damndest to live and be who I am, and I’ve realized that there are so many black people out there who need hope as much as I do, who need to see that there are black people who are living and thriving, despite the racism.

I’ve just been thinking about myself, and I need to think about the fact that there are other black people out there who are much like me. Just like me, even. Who just want to live, feel beautiful and important, be positive and kind, and have so much love and kindness to give to themselves and to other people. Who have hearts that are much too big for their bodies.

I’d rather much spend time uplifting soft black people, and encouraging them to live and hope, rather than complain about racism while doing absolutely nothing to fight back against it. Complaining with no solutions, and delving into negativity and hopelessness does nothing but spread toxicity. And not to mention it’s letting the racists win, which I refuse to do. I will live, and I will enjoy it. I deserve to have a life that I love and cherish. I deserve to be black and to be happy. Extremely happy.

I’m here, I see you. I understand. 💕💕💕

Also, despite it not seeming that way due to society, there are white people who are kind, empathetic, actively anti-racist, and anti-bigoted in general, and who understand, and who are actual good people. I’m friends with two white people who are. White people like them exist. They always have. 💕💕💕

[elaytv]

The Chilae' Project The Codes Season 1 Episode 2 Hashtag - Getdown

youtu.be/qKAm0u0eQ1A

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[pinkiewitchcraft]

• Reasons to be Black and Happy and Hopeful, despite dealing with racism:

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1. Because you are important. Because you deserve to be here and you deserve happiness while being black. Being black and happy is important. It is a must.

2. Because making racists angry by simply existing, and being happy and content at the same time, is so intoxicating and delicious, not to mention the most important, most necessary thing in the world. If they’re unhappy because people exist in various different forms, and various different colors of the human rainbow, then that is a them problem, and they need to get over it. Let them throw as many tantrums as they please. Let them cry, let them scream. They’re a ridiculous group of people.

3. Because people need to know that you can be black and happy. That you can live and thrive, and feel content and peaceful while being black. Because blackness is not all suffering and having to deal with racism all the time. It is beautiful, it is lovely and it is something to look forward to. Every single day.

4. Because there are black children, teenagers, and adults feeling as though the world hates them, and there’s no future for them. And you need to be there to lift them up, and show them that they have a future. That they deserve to be here. To feel wanted, loved, and hopeful.

5. Because even though it’s hard, you need to be here. I know it may seem easier to just disappear forever, to feel as though you are simply better off gone, but the world is so much better with you here. And every time you smile, everytime you feel happy and hopeful, you light up the world and make things so much better.

6. Because there are people who want you here. You are important to them. You mean so much to them.

[miss-ddarling]

05/14/2023 4:47AM

Vulnerability after Grief

I’m typing on my laptop, writing notes about different things relating to Spirituality. A topic and feeling I’ve been growing toward. I’m specifically learning more about the third eye and I had a weird thought while smoking my blunt. I always thought that the third eye opening was a specific weird experience. I felt like it would be a That's so Raven moment that would be startling. I also pictured it to be like a Ghost Whisper moment, where I suddenly can see spirits!

However, now that I'm older…

I feel like it’s more of an endless later where you learn more and more and unlearn things as well. Through education (learning) , mindfulness,meditation and opening your awareness. It sounds like a bunch of hippie babble yeah? Well, what I’m trying to say is I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I do feel closer to “peace.”

I am far away from peace when it comes to finances and struggling to have enough food or pay every bill and work just enough. However, mentally…I feel like I've been kicked down so much that there isn’t anything I couldn’t handle.

My dad suddenly passed away the day after I moved to another state to go to college, not be a burden to him anymore financially and so that I could find myself. Instead, I ended up in a relationship with someone who didn’t want a relationship and them living with me. Fights and fights because of misunderstandings, different mental awareness and age gap. I was a girl learning to become a woman in a world that already sees me as such.

I went from being a recently graduated college student moving out to go to another college to further education.. Daddy paying my phone bill and everything..To having life insurance and bills and debt I never knew existed.

You could say I was spoiled. Because I was. He even cleaned for me.

I spoke to my Dad every single day multiple times and the only other person I spoke to weekly was my boyfriend.

So, you can think of how the pressure of all this affected that boyfriend. In my opinion, he felt like he had to take care of me so he put up a front until he couldn’t anymore. Then, would occasionally find himself flirting with another woman online. A lot of men see that i’m mature but they can’t accept and love the flaws that come with me actually being young and neurodivergent.

I’ve survived multiple Suicide attempts, rapes, and child sex trafficking. When I thought it couldn’t get worse, it did.

Where I currently am, is a little over 2 years after my dads death, in my apt with my ex. I’m smoking and doing research about things i’m interested in again. I had to drop out of college the first semester because it was a few months after my dads death and I couldn’t even read a paragraph or type one.

It feels… amazing to be able to write again.

I want to share my life experiences with the world so that someone out there who went through something similar can see that, even if it does get worse…there’s still a way to find peace until it’s consistently great.

I’ll be 23 in a few weeks. I never thought I’d reach 18.

I don’t believe in a god anymore but I do believe that I can use this time on earth to heal other people through being vulnerable and sharing my experiences.

Tomorrow, I could become homeless. I would shrug because even if I was now facing starvation, and other issues relating to it, I would know that I’ve made it so far. I’ve been through so many things where I wanted to die and had to hurt myself to feel anything. I’m raising myself, have no parents and I’m broke in another state with family who’s hurt me more than helped. However, I am not what has happened to me or who has hurt me. I am always shedding the day prior and creating a new skin for what is to come.

I have came too far to back down from anything that wants to bring me down. Even if physically I am not well, mentally and spiritually I will be. I will still be kind. I will still fight my way until I die.

I will not let the dark take the most important thing from me, my mind.

This song is how I’ve started feeling since disconnecting from everything I believed I needed to be happy. To find self love, acceptance and happiness within myself. It’s a bumpy add ride with plenty flashbacks, but it’s still a way up.

If you want to hear part 2 on audio or read it, comment or like❤️

[black-mental-health-matters]

Important..

[pocahontislhdc]

If You’re Disrupting My Peace Baby You Gotta Go Period.