#and breathing exercises are good

[heuffopla]

Took me very long in life to realize that when an article about anxiety or whatever says "listening to relaxing music helps :)" it means music that's relaxing to YOU. Not just the usual slow and calm and soft relaxation music. This whole time I was wondering why listening to those didn't do anything, it's because they're not what I personally find relaxing!!

Turns out, if your favorite musician screaming moaning and crying in your ears is what you find relaxing, that's what you should listen to when panicking.

#Good for you if soft calm music helps you! For me it just leaves too much room for my brain to think. Same for breathing exercises. #For breathing I also had to find one that works for me because none of what I usually found worked #For people wondering. It is 3 seconds IN 6 seconds OUT (or a certain amount of seconds in and double the amount out) #My therapist actually taught me that one. Very good! #Panics. Hand me my shovel I'm going in by Will Wood. Am okay. :)

[divinekangaroo]

rewatching S6 in bits and pieces for current fic and ahhhhhhhhhh but the whole Jack, Diana, Mosley and Lizzie final dinner is so *viscerally* fucking satisfying on every sensory and intellectual and emotional level of consumption.

#every single movement facial expression breath flick of an eye the choice of 'mosley' not 'mr mosley' #the way mosley says 'lizzie' for the first time #jack's buildup and his mad fucking innuendo just before diana and oswald show #particularly how every drink is taken and by whom and when #lizzie constantly holding herself back the entire time from Saying Something all these flinches and half-breaths #insane #INSANE #as much as the end of S3 is roaringly wrenchingly furiously emotionally good #this dinner is something else #this whole episode is pretty much something else though fffffffffffff #jack's patronising constant reference to tommy as if he's a much younger man/boy when you look at these two guys and jack looks younger?? #by design i am sure #in the scene with the tie before the dinner.the way tommy's face says one thing while facing away from lizzie #then he puts on that mask as he turns to face her and you can SEE HIM DO THAT jesus #it would a writing exercise and a half to actually try to capture that scene in writing and work out what needs to be said/described #to carry the same effect because @coffeeatnight23 -> this scene is totally Tommy ripping his own heart out then eating it with relish :) #it *is* the saddest thing but also a fucking *reclamation* of something that tommy hasn't had since his suicide attempt. there's lots of #small reclamations of self that happen in post-Ruby S6 i seem to recall. despite flicks old trauma/foggy memory wandering also this- #-sort of structural shift/acceptance he is who he is and that is how he has agency (not solely money?) #anyway it's not triumph but there is *something* that i haven't found the word for yet #acceptance is one word but there's something more vicarious and dark in it that acceptance doesn't connote

[wild-moss-art]

Did some yoga for the first time since before I got sick, it felt pretty good. I am bad at breathing

#‘’’’self care’’’’ #exercise #im having negative emotions which it didn’t really help(yet?) but I did need a good stretch #back to shallow rapid prey animal breaths

[ace-dodo]

My honest reaction (I felt I couldn't breathe in p.e.)

#it started to remind me of when i hyperventilated like every day #I WAS CHOKING I COULDN'T BREATHE #ALL BECAUSE OF EXERCISE #im okay now tho #and i didn't faint so #all good 👍👍

[daz4i]

in my "one more inconvenience and i sincerely think i won't be able to stop myself from physically assaulting someone" era

#tried breathing exercises and it didn't help so that's probably not a good sign 👍 #i hate holiday season i hate holiday season i hate holiday season i hate it #and i hate living here (this house. this country. this mortal realm) #i need to throw things. I'm considering finding some old clothes and tearing them up with my hands. actually that's a good idea hold on #update: well i did it with one shirt. it helped a little bit ig. i still feel like I'm burning with rage tho. also my hands kinda hurt

[hajihiko]

ARE YOU SHITTING ME. i woke up with horrendous cold yesterday and was just about to ask you how sdr2 survivors would handle sickness and here you're posting this!! get well soon 💚

Oh god its spreading

#Its flu season I guess! #I like the idea of Sonia trying to take care of everyone when they're sick #Idk how she would act while sick tho #Akane doesn't notice herself being sick (wilfully ignores it) and tries to exercise and eat it away #'What I need is a good cold swim and a sand rub!!' proceeds to make herself worse #Fuyuhiko is stubborn for all of one day then hes like ok I'm gross this sucks and locks himself away to sweat it all out #Souda is a whiney little baby but also keeps trying to be productive while he can barely breathe #Hajime is surprisingly a good boy who fuckin lays down and takes it easy and let's people help him! #He knows how to be sick with SOME grace. Unfortunately also very pathetic #Not an art

[victo1re]

mint.hara: sup [racial slur]. obey me vic: you sure are fucking lucky i swore an oath of pacifism literally five minutes ago.

#* ooc. #SHES DOING HER BREATHING EXERCISES... #it's such an interesting situation bc like... by all accounts killing her would be A Good Deed. #in a sense u could argue it balances the scales as far as alfi.ra's death goes even. ALL the good aligned companions look positively on it #and yet there's this sense of the urge having soured in her stomach. any killing at all is distasteful right now #this will change. she will get over it and soon. but it sure is a fun place to be in a first interaction #honestly i see a world where knocking her out is the canon act vic takes in that she starts the combat and chickens out

[mwagneto]

IT'S OVER... gomens is literally like an army wife waiting for me to finally get back home and pay attention to it again. i'm omw baby

#i missed being physically active but dude holy shit. ow ow ow ow ow ow ow #it's so bad coz like. only a week of work and I already feel better in every single way physically #i didnt even start breathing heavily after running uphill for several minutes like tf!!! #i try to exercise at home daily but this 9 hour workday shit is way different #no slacking off here. which is good for my body but my GOD am i in pain #also i dont think getting 5 heatstrokes in 5 days was very healthy but we move. i knew I'd #get one every day if anything im surprised it wasn't worse so um slay ig #barking #now im going back home 😏 back to the guys ... #and my mutuals are coming over to rewatch it in a few days. winning #until then i will do nothing but sleep🙏

[sailor-cerise]

Breaking news: insufficient breathing does not make you feel great

More news: breathing medication makes you breath better

#New to this asthma diagnosis thing still #Having an explanation and a solution for like...40% of my suddenly-feel-like-crap-itis is great #I still can believe I had undiagnosed asthma for at least 15 years #Moderate persistent asthma #No less #So like #I really don't breath so good #But no I was just lazy with my 4-6 hours of exercise a week #And when my stamina declined it was because I was getting more out of shape (despite exercising more) #Like it's not the only thing wrong with me but #breathing is fucking important it turns out

[golden-heart-beats]

starting to love doing yard work. just me, my silly music in my headphones and my shovel as i dig the fuck out of stubborn weeds as the anger finally bleeds out of me

#bri.txt #i do many things to cope with anger. journaling. exercise. calm breathing. eating good. NOTHING IS BETTER THEN PLANT MURDER.

[misty-missdee]

I think im going to start practicing qigong.

#to be honest most days after work im way too tired for yoga #and i could use a shake up #id also be lying if i said the thought of actual chi focus didnt entice me #bc it does #bc im a nerd #and qigong is good for getting into tai chi #and ive had a hankering to practice a martial art again #so here it all is in writing to hold myself accountable #plus i just did a very basic pressure point breathing exercise following along a vid #with qigong meditation #my new best friend brother insight #brought a huge smile to my face #good for me #aaaaanywhooo #:]

[egoborderline]

Indefinite hiatus

#I am so sorry I will inevitably be back because I am always back because I'm weak and the words is ah have no weight and I think I might be #I think there might be something wrong with me #I can't do it I can't do anything right can't work can't right see friends can't breathe can't love can't plan vacation can't shop cool #Can't get into shape can't exercise can't focus during dnd which is important to me because I see my friends #Can't go out can't stay sober can't make art can't clean can't cook can't work can't teach can't be can't be can't be can't listen #Can't act fucking right #Can't act like a fucking human person #Done with being a human person I'm done done done #They all know something is wrong with me or they wouldn't look at me the way every stranger looks at me like I'm fucking disgusting #Im fucking losing my mind for good. And the best part is that I took my meds today

[marsjoram]

will i regret sharing that? who knows! i hope someone feels a little less alone though

#im gonna do breathing exercises or something and sleep 👍💙 #i am All Good.

[moxymaxing]

big big fan of transmasc dakota but oh my god do not put that boy in a binder. do you want his chest to die

#from a guy who wears a binder while exercising. <- don’t do that i just don’t have much of a choice #but yeah wearing a binder while doing normal exercise isn’t good for you hurts your chest limits heavy breathing etc. #ofc you could say he wears binders when off duty but it’s Dakota. that guy is never off duty in his mind #and even when he is he’s stilly jumping around and such. my lovely son #talking.txt

[frecklystars]

Every time I fall asleep, I only get 3 or 4 hours until I jolt awake gasping and shaky. And then I can’t sleep again. It’s 6am and I want to get at least 3 more hours before I have to work at 2pm but I am so jittery from anxiety and I keep getting flashbacks every few minutes what the fuck I hate living like this

#vent #i fucking hate ptsd I fucking hate this shit I did not miss it #it took me 7 years to recover from my ptsd I had when I was 17. now I have to deal with c-ptsd and multiple triggers??? #I tried to take my prescribed sleeping meds but they won’t kick in bc I can’t stop shaking #I’m trying to do Steve Blum’s meditation exercises but he’s like! think of a calming river! #and I’m like! Steve no I can’t do that! rivers are a trigger! and then I’m not breathing slowly I’m Not Breathing I’m just frozen and #he’s like you’re doing so good and then I turn off the exercise and then Im anxious even more #and he told me last year he was so proud of me for being so strong but god I don’t feel strong at all #my abuser is in the back of my head 24/7 and I’ve felt absolutely nothing for transformers for 7 whole months now #everything I love is a trigger or completely ruined forever and I can’t fix it I’m just always. goingn to be stuck like this forever #and she’s fine she gets to have artists post all of her commissions everywhere right out in the open and she’s Fine #and I’m on the bathroom floor shaking and crying and trying not to vomit

[vvelegrin]

i love walking the line when i consume caffeine of "this will give you a boost to make it through the day without sleeping and it's fine and good" as a person with tired person disease that needs things to fill in in the times i don't have access to my stimulant and "this will not wake you up but will make you be unable to sit still even worse and you will feel like you are dying" as a person with can't sit still disease and also bad heart rate and bad balance disease

#it is always a crapshoot #on my mind because i'm chugging some of the super caffeine lemonade at panera and uuuhhh it's hitting and not in a good way #“do not consume if you have conditions affected by caffeine” #what if i have multiple conditions affected by caffeine <333 #luckily in a 'very annoying' way and not a 'fatal' way #catch me doing breathing exercises at my little table in panera lmao