Tag: depression

therisingofdawn:

dirtyheathen:

renewinglaurenjane:

Do me a favor okay?
Stop trying to go back to who you were before. Before you were raped, before you got sick before an eating disorder took over your life. stop trying to be who you were five, ten, twenty years ago. Before the mental illness took over, before he died, back before your parents split or you lost your best friend.

You are NOT the same person as before. You never will be again. Give up the idolization of “before” and be who you are now. Be the you AFTER.

Thank you

no post on tumblr has ever hit me more than this whoa

jcatgrl:

taejira:

Forget the Myers-Briggs fucking personality assessment. I am dead tired of hearing if someone is an INFP or an ESLQ or whatever. I want to know if someone is melancholic or choleric. Bring back the four humors. I wanna see “Kaley, 16, phlegmatic” when I go to someone’s blog. Who is with me. Lets make this happen

here’s a test i found. go wild, y’all. (im choleric.)

thatonechick339:

arche-zomboid:

marvellousmoments:

sixpenceee:

  • Schizophrenia: patients usually have less brain tissue
  • Major Depression: scans show less brain activity in depressed brain
  • Alzheimer’s: brain tissue significantly shrinks, hippocampus is usually the first region to go
  • ADHD: less brain activity in the frontal cortex (area associated with decision making) 
  • OCD: high brain activity 
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): hippocampal volume reduction (area involved in memory) and increased activation of the amygdala (area involved in emotional responses) 

This is so important! I usually don’t reblog posts but people need to understand that mental illnesses are NO CHOICE! You cannot get over it, or snap with your fingers and just be okay again. It takes constant fixing and a lot of strength to get out of this.
So to everyone who judges people with mental disorders: people don’t get a choice to develop a disorder or not, but being stupid and telling them to get over it is a choice.
PLEASE DONT JUDGE THINGS UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND!

i wanna shove these in my mom’s face every time she says “just push through it”

Going to start sending this to people.

bornonimpulse:

Every now and then I have these moments where I’m really aware of just how much I hate living. Since I was at least ten? years old I’ve just been switching between desperately clinging to something distract me from my life, and dissociating when that wasn’t an option. There are huge chunks of my childhood missing. I literally don’t remember what it’s like to want to live but at the same time I have an idea of what it was like and now that’s gone, and it’s like. how do you recover from that? How do you ‘recover’ from nothing? There isn’t a constant desire to die but I don’t want to live either. How am I supposed to put effort into improving a life I don’t even want? There’s no motivation. I don’t like myself and I have no idea how to change that or even if I have any desire to

things depression is: various piles of rotting laundry, over the counter and prescribed pain meds/sleep pills, excuses on why you have to cancel plans, extreme irritability, joint/muscle/back pain, headaches, not showering for 2 and a half weeks, forgetting to eat/not being able to stop
things depression isnt: watchin netflix all day:p cause ur friends didnt call back, taking a nap, not wearing pants, being nonchalant, being sad sometimes
things mania is: irritability, ecstasy, paranoia, sometimes the inability to make rational decisions, impulsivity, magical thinking, sometimes god complex, staying up for 89 hours straight, wanting to get everything that doesnt need to be done, done, possible psychosis
things mania isnt: having a good day, doing something on a dare, being excited
things ocd is: constant intrusive horrific images playing in head, absolutely crucial compulsions, sore fingers, exhaustion, ridicule, extreme anxiety 24/7
things ocd isnt: fixing a table mat, making your Instagram feed nice
things psychosis is: paranoia, magical thinking, inability to differentiate between dream and reality, hallucinations (aud&vis), sometimes dangerous delusions, being a victim of shameless ablesm constantly
things psychosis isn’t: psychopathy, being assertive, being aggressive towards someone, making an assumption, edgy, aesthetic, trippy
people who are allowed to internalize and speak on mental illness, use ablest slurs and feel however they want about mental illness: people who are mentally ill
people who are not: neurotypicals

smoltinypumpkinchild:

nurselofwyr:

deenoverdami:

The thing I hate most about depression is that it tricks you into thinking you don’t have depression. It makes you think that nothing is wrong with you, that you just feel this way because you lack value as a person. Whether that’s in your relationships, your academics, or a view of yourself, it makes you think you aren’t good enough for any of that.

“It’s not the illness,” it says, “You feel this way because it’s who you are.”

“Mental illness is like fighting a war where the enemy’s strategy is to convince you that the war isn’t actually happening.”

There is no war in Ba Sing Se