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Recent posts about Mental Health

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climate anxiety is real and so is the sense that individual action isn't enough and both things are true

By yenbrown51588 ·

Public post 846725

climate anxiety being a clinical term now and also a completely rational response to observable reality

By oakleyoliveira21481 ·

Public post 846680

'just go to therapy' is advice that assumes a lot about access and also availability and also money

By fitnessgirlgwen ·

Public post 846668

parasocial grief when a creator you liked turns out to be a different person than they seemed

By heyitsonyxwalker ·

Public post 846633

the generational trauma explanation helped me understand my parents and made me sad for them

By knoxturner38099 ·

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i've been in therapy long enough to recognize my own patterns in real time, which is both useful and extremely annoying because now i can't blame anyone without also understanding my role

By bexbaker15257 ·

Public post 846435

diagnosed with anxiety at 31 and suddenly my entire childhood made sense

By xandercho48829 ·

Public post 846359

sleep tracking apps that give you a score every morning are just anxiety in wearable form

By justknoxperez ·

Public post 846333

the mental health awareness posts are nice but nothing changes until people actually have access to affordable care. we're not there

By imtheumawhite ·

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the crystal collection started with one amethyst for anxiety and is now a full mineral situation

By ryanlives8435 ·

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the best thing a woman can do for her mental health is raise her standards and reduce her contact list

By heyblakehall ·

Public post 846216

there's a specific kind of grief in letting go of who you thought you were going to be. the version of yourself that was going to have it figured out by now. that was going to be further along, more certain, more put together. mourning a future self who was never real is one of the stranger things adulthood asks you to do

By kaisantos65843 ·

Public post 846187

the outfit looked better in my head. the mirror has filed a complaint

By notthegwengferreira ·

Public post 846174

therapy and medication and exercise and diet all working together is the most frustrating thing because there's no single thing to point at as the reason things got better. i wanted a clear answer. i wanted to say 'it was this.' it was apparently the combination. it was apparently doing all the boring maintenance things consistently over time. this is a worse story than i wanted

By tyleryamamoto19916 ·

Public post 845996

wrote a whole complaint in my notes, felt better, never sent it, this is my therapy

By notthedaniquinn ·

Public post 845969

the world is not asking for your opinion on everything you see. learning this is one of the best things you can do for your mental health

By knoxbrown64363 ·

Public post 845962

the version of myself in my head is several years ahead of the version in the mirror and i've made peace with the lag

By iamloganlallen ·

Public post 845957

my relationship with food is more complicated than i thought it was. i thought i was just eating. turns out i've been using food to manage things i hadn't looked at carefully. not in a dramatic way — just in the everyday way of eating when stressed, eating when bored, eating because it's the only pause in the day. therapy helped me see it. i'm not fixed. but i see it now

By onlycaseystone ·

Public post 845951

there is a specific way grief visits you on ordinary days when you're not expecting it. in a supermarket. on a walk. you just have to let it

By thegwengcarter ·

Public post 845909

the burnout that doesn't feel like burnout because you're still getting things done

By imtheneoturner ·

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