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“I’m glad I’ve chosen to stay because I would have missed out on so many good things. I would have missed concerts and watching the sunset and being able to love my friends through hard things. I would have missed hugs that make me feel whole again and singing at the top of my lungs and creating things I’m proud of. I would have missed out on the process of getting better and letting joy guide the beat of my heart.”

— Anna Page, “The Light is What You Need”

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Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

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today my therapist told me that sometimes negative feelings like guilt, anxiety, self loathing, etc are like the hiccups. they’re uncomfortable, we don’t like them, there’s no way to turn them off; they can even be incapacitating for a while. we don’t always know where they came from or when they’ll go away, so sometimes instead of focusing on why we feel a certain way we need to get better at recognizing its temporary nature, keeping perspective, and enduring discomfort. i feel like a lot of self-improvement rhetoric is about pinpointing specific causes for negative thoughts/behaviors so you can eradicate them, but people with chronic mental illness really need to work on allowing themselves to experience these feelings without going into a downward spiral.

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today my therapist described the whole "not sick enough" spiel we all seem to fall into as digging yourself into the bottom of a hole, working really hard to climb out, and when you're almost at the top going "oh shit I was never in a hole!" and then jumping back down to the bottom and digging even deeper and honestly? yeah, sounds about right

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“No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you’re fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they’re the ones who teach you the most about yourself.”

— Kate Hudson (via quotemadness)

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“The road is smoother, the opportunities align quicker, and the challenges are easier to overcome, when you surround yourself with people who have the same intentions as you. People who focus on solutions and executions instead of excuses.”

— Meggan Roxanne

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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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“Healthy eating” is context-specific and not accessible to everyone, but in general and roughly in order of priority, it entails

eating enough food

eating consistently

eating a variety of foods

eating foods you enjoy

That’s it! You don’t need to buy my book or come to my seminar or sign up for my program!

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“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”

— Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

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do you ever get in those moods where you don’t feel like reading and you don’t feel like being on the internet and you don’t feel like watching a show and you don’t feel like sleeping and you don’t feel like existing in general

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wowie, actually nourishing my body makes life so bright