uglyfruit:

lin-themanmiranda:

So like… I’ve started to do things that Mentally Healthy ppl do, and I’m starting to feel Mentally Healthier.

Like

• I’ve been showering daily
• Brushing my teeth 2-3 times a day
• Limit my caffeine to one coffee and maybe one soda a day.
• Doing at least one house chore a day, no matter how tired I am after work. Sometimes it’s something small like tidying just one corner of the table or picking coins up off the floor, but it still makes me feel more organized mentally.
• Trying to regulate my sleep. No electronics for an hour prior to falling asleep. Waking up with my alarm. Trying to give myself at least 8 hours between my no-electronic time and waking up (not always possible with work, but I’m trying my best!).
• Eating at least 2 meals a day, but aim for three (improvement for me).
• Drinking at least 3 glasses of water a day (also improvement for me).
• Watering my plants and petting my cat more.
• Doing things I genuinely enjoy more often. (Mainly reading & painting, but also calling friends and walking through my fave stores even when I can’t buy something).
• Being a little more physical. Recently, I’ve been doing stretches for 5-10 minutes at night and sometimes in the morning.

And like I know it’s really hard to get to a place where you can do all of these things, but holy shit I feel better than I have since the last time I left the psych ward (over a year ago). I wish I’d convinced myself to incorporate one or two of these things slowly over time, but I’m so glad I’m finally getting it.

And like, of COURSE, there will be slip ups. Of COURSE I may fall behind on one or two of these things when I’m feeling shitty, but I’m really hoping to instill good habits that aren’t too easily lost.

Anyway, I just wanted to share bc positivity is nice and maybe it could help somebody else?

someonekillpewdiepie:

So people who own legal pot dispensaries are calling for a crackdown on people who sell it illegally and if that isn’t the MOST white liberal thing ever, what is?

rideonmidnightcowgirl:

rideonmidnightcowgirl:

All art is literally just an attempt at grappling with the fact that we have no way of knowing if the minds of other people are actually real.

any and all attempts to translate your lived experience into something tangible to communicate with other people is an acknowledgement that your consciousness ends where your body ends and what you experience as truth must be translated so that what is instinctively known by you can be even vaguely grasped by someone outside of “you” and can enter into their truth

a-candle-for-sherlock:

These love letters between 12th century nuns are hauntingly beautiful

"I sigh for you at every hour, at every moment, like a hungry little bird."

LGBTQ Nation

“Since I’ve had to be without your sweetest presence, I have not wished to hear or see any other human being, but as the turtle-dove, having lost its mate, perches forever on its little dried up branch, so I lament endlessly till I shall enjoy your trust again. I look about and do not find my lover — she does not comfort me even with a single word.

Indeed when I reflect on the loveliness of your most joyful speech and aspect, I am utterly depressed, for I find nothing now that I could compare with your love, sweet beyond honey and honeycomb, compared with which the brightness of gold and silver is tarnished. What more?”