Nobody Talks About How Ugly Taking Care Of Yourself Can Be

Trump is only two points ahead in Texas now. If you’re in Texas and vote third party or don’t vote this year, I will personally never forgive you for stealing the joy of watching the GOP freak out at Texas going blue from me.

Exactly.

are u ever too stressed to do anything like ur literally so stressed that it has reduced u to someone who stares at the wall for two hours instead of doing the things u need to do that will make u unstressed

as a child, i had this really interesting way of dealing with executive dysfunction:

when i needed to do something but did not get the impulse to actually start, i counted to 20.

and at 20, i did the thing.

i started this in order to get me out of bed in the morning, and after a few weeks it was a reliable source of starting impulses. every time i hit 20, i got started. 

somewhere along the way i stopped doing it, because it was weird and nobody else needed to count in order to do stuff.

it makes me wonder, how many brilliant coping skills do we loose or never develop because we live in a neurotypical world and nobody teaches us these things? because we think they’re weird, because we don’t have words for what we’re doing, because they seem to have no place in this world?

If you are a male victim of rape, you are still a man. It doesn’t make you weaker, and you shouldn’t feel disgusted by yourself. What happened to you is not your fault.

I, too, remember that feeling. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost.

Haruki  Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World. (via psych2go)

I’ve woken up over 10,000 times and I’m still not used to it

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