Hi.
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Three! Weeks! In!
Welcome to the third week of our Mental Health Month prompts. We just finished up a week of posting it for each other. This week? We’re posting it for reflection. We want to give you the opportunity to look back on your personal experiences with mental health: the struggles you have overcome, or something you’re dealing with right now. We’re all a work in progress, and that’s okay. You can follow through however you please, including using some of our prompts below. Just don’t forget to tag it with #postitforward so other people can easily find it:
- Make a post sharing your personal experiences with mental health. It can be a GIF, a text post, a video—whatever feels right to you.
- Share a list of things you know now that you wish you knew then.
- Here’s a thank you card. Reblog to thank yourself for being so strong, or reblog and tag someone who might have helped you through something.
- Post a quote that helps you get through tough times.
- Create a chat post conversation between you and your younger self.
- Make a video talking about something you overcame.
- Share a song that’s important to you, and tell your followers why.
We can’t wait to see these posts start rolling through our dashboards.
A small text addendum: We have some special Answer Times coming up that are centered around Mental Health Month. On the docket this week:
- 5/15—Cynthia Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s mother and co-founder of Born This Way Foundation.
- 5/16—Shannon Beveridge (@now-this-is-living), 25-year-old YouTube star. She’ll be partnering with It Gets Better (@itgetsbetterproject).
I'm going to try to do this when I get a chance
https://www.fabric.com/buy/0491115/alexander-henry-boardwalk-bathing-beauties-makeup This fabric is adorable and body-positive! It's so cute! It's called "Bathing Beauties" by Alexander Henry
when your life means more than the size of your body I promise your whole world is going to change
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Yeah apparently owls have long legs.
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Shameless 6x12
I want this tattooed on me
cutelittlewolfpup
A little louder for those in the back.
lost-lil-kitty
This THIS THIS THIS.
livableed
This is why people keep quiet about their mental illnesses…and why we need to speak up.
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Eating disorders, on any level, are a crutch. They are also an addiction and an illness, but there is no question at all that they are quite simply a way of avoiding the banal, daily, itchy pain of life. Eating disorders provide a little private drama, they feed into the desire for constant excitement, everything becomes life-or-death, everything is terribly grand and crashing, very Sturm und Drang. And they are distracting. You don’t have to think about any of the nasty minutiae of the real world, you don’t get caught up in that awful boring thing called regular life, with its bills and its breakups and its dishes and laundry and groceries and arguments over whose turn it is to change the litter box and bedtimes and bad sex and all that, because you are having a real drama, not a sitcom but a GRAND EPIC, all by yourself, and why would you bother with those foolish mortals when you could spend hours and hours with a mirror, when you are having the most interesting sadomasochistic affair with your own image?
Marya Hornbacher, Wasted (via adderalldust)
FIRST OF ALL..This is what Facebook does to me. When you click to view photos of yourself... it just like smashes up random time periods of your life side by side so that it can be ABSOLUTELY apparent how much weight was gained... seriously. 😯 Being pregnant seriously made me fatter than ever before but it was not as distressing as you'd think because, well... I was pregnant and totally following hunger and fullness cues to give the baby what he needed. The first pic was while I was in my ED and we were all PRETENDING to be pregnant and then look how I actually looked while pregnant. Can't believe I even allowed that pic of me to be tagged on fb. But.... That's not my real body. That's my pregnant body. The first picture isn't my real body either. That's my sick body. An eating disordered body at some point during my struggle... they're BOTH pictures of not my real body... and it is pretty amazing what a body can go through and still come out the other side alive and well! Pics of after baby so all of you who want to have kids someday will know that even if you gain 3,000,000 lbs during pregnancy that it's just temporary!
Fat?
When I was pretty little, like probably 7, I asked my mom why some people were sooooo fat? How did that happen? She gave me an explanation that was not judgmental and because of that I didn't look down on people because of their weight. Now, it may not be true in many circumstances but it was a good explanation for a little child and one that made me NOT worry that it would happen to me ((at that time) later when I developed an ED-- that's another story). She said that the gauge that says empty or full like the one for gas in a car was broken. I saw that picture in my mind, like people literally had and E--->F gauge and thought about it all the time like when I was eating and thought about my own gauge.
Things are changing
Things are changing, and I am finding this incredibly hard to deal with. But just because my thighs are growing in size, as well as my tummy, does not mean that I am now less of a human being; that I am not “good enough”; or less worthy of life.
Maybe it is time to start focusing on the other changes.
My smile is becoming wider. My eyes are beginning to light up again. My mind is no longer so foggy. And I am finally beginning to feel warmer again.
I am no longer dying. And that is okay.
But holding onto that thing that has been killing me, that is NOT okay.
Getting closer to being “healthy” is not something to be scared of. It is not something that needs to be continually put off. I have been working towards this for a very long time, and it is time to stop putting it off.
It’s okay that I am letting go. It’s okay that I am learning to live again. I am healing. And yes that is scary, And the journey is daunting. But I know that it will be worth it, because the path that I have trodden so far has already taught me so much, and I am ready to learn more. I am not a diagnosis. And I am not a disorder. I am learning and things are changing, but that is okay.
benedictsmith
Do you guys ever say the wrong thing in a conversation and then have it haunt you for months or years afterwards like a social anxiety poltergeist?
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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley MacLaine (via KatiMorton) (via recoverylifeandcats)
but............maybe i’m too old for tumblr and i should just bid ye farewell!?!?!?!?!?!
Here i am now.
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