all throughout high school, he hounded me to just do things and to stop being what he perceived as lazy. he claimed I was making excuses, he claimed I was putting in the minimum effort and expecting rewards. he tried to convince me I wasn't trying at all
every week, the day he visited, when he followed up with me on what I'd done throughout the week, I suddenly completely collapsed in on myself. All the forward momentum that had taken me most of the week to even accomplish suddenly screeched to a halt, and I had to work myself up all over again. repeat ad nauseum.
anyway that's all to say that I'm so glad we live in an era where mental health is talked about more openly and things like executive function and some tasks just being Harder because of mental health issues are talked about in ways that make us see that we're neither broken nor alone
I'd only seen the first one with depression, but I've posted and reposted it many times since I first encountered it. It really makes me sad that some of these others did not become as common place, and that the artist was bullied away.
Thx everybody!
: idk if anyone else experiences this but that kind of thing always makes me think of coming in from a cold day and hands hurting from warming up too fast
I recently bought a bed tent that was originally meant for some porch camping on vacation, but that didn't work out due to noise and temperature. but when that part wasn't a problem DAMN was that tent and the air mattress I bought for it the coziest nest I'd ever been in.
people love to make fun of people who go to college for general studies or whatnot but like. that's the only way I've been able to get a feel for what I like or what I should pursue
Thx everybody!
: My dad always said that the reason people ask kids what they want to be when they grow up is because they are looking for good ideas for themselves.
Same. There's stuff I've needed to get done for over a year now that I haven't been able to do and I just hear the voices on the second one whenever I think about that which just makes it worse...
The worst part is when you get to beating yourself up over doing anything enjoyable and/or easy because it's not the hard thing you haven't gotten done. At least being really good at things I did for work helped there, it's easier not to beat yourself up over doing 'easy' things if they're for work...
someone gives a "cry for help" specifically because they have the will to survive the artist talks about- someone without the will to survive wouldn't make that last gasp of calling out to the cavalry
--actually, upon more investigation, it looks like that patreon page has not been updated since at least 2017, and there is no confirmation that whatever backing is happening is actually going to the creator at this point, so i think i'm going to delete that link from here since i don't want to confuse people. it looked promising, but alas
fwiw, in trying to find out whether they were active i did stumble on what looks like their instagram, which has been active recently, and it looks like they're doing okay
i feel like i might cry