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diary entry
that last post reminded me, during that week of hell when i was taking a break from here, i told my best friend from high school what happened.
i told him that when it was happening i was spiralling because i felt so lonely and he very sternly said "i don't wanna hear about something like this happening again without you telling me about it" and telling him what happened helped tremendously to get a new perspective and then when i went to therapy we got to focus on what i achieved, patterns i wasn't recognizing and my plan for the future, since the whole emotional response to the thing was outta the way.
Therapy is not for you to shove down your feelings or put a lid on your crises and only let them out during the sessions. Therapy is for you to get resources that'll help you deal with those feelings and crises as they happen.
And one of those resources is a support system! Having people to reach out to, who will be there when you need to cry or rant or scream about what's hapenning is healthy! It's great actually! Those same people might be there also when you need to laugh and bitch and be offensive and an awful hater for a bit just because. That way you won't be insufferable online, but that's another post.
Point is, you need friends. Real ones that will listen to you "trauma dump".
As a person who used to cringe at "connection is part of human nature" because i thought i was the only person in human history to not need friends or family, i can tell you with certainty: you need other people. thats hard to hear, but you do. and if you don't have people in your life who you can rely on like this, look for new people if you can. i promise the ones that will be there for you are out there.
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[alarming health stuff, internalized ableism cw]
no, moogle, it is not in fact fishing for sympathy or making excuses for dropping the ball on things or whatever to talk about it when your health issues continue to get worse. you are not scaring people for attention when you post on your personal blog about the fact that you aren't sure yet whether your current condition might be 'dangerous but recoverable' or 'irreversible, incurable, and usually fatal.' stop that.
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i really like the therapist character on ted lasso which makes it rough for me because i hate the entire plotline between her and ted from a professional standpoint because oh my god personal/professional boundaries between therapists and patients exist for a reason
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me jumping from Sonakshi to Sirius genderfluid who?
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Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
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