Tag: disability

apanoplyofsong:

For World Mental Health Day, a few reminders:

  • taking medication isn’t cheating or weakness or anything else; it’s a valid use of your resources
  • if you have trouble remembering to take your medication, try an app like Round that can help you keep track
  • anything you may be feeling, you’re not alone in
  • you don’t have to prove you’re “bad enough” for help: if you want help, or think it might be beneficial, then you deserve it
  • there are people dealing with chronic mental illness who still have fulfilling, worthwhile lives–it doesn’t preclude you having that, too

real adult™ tip from a real adult™ with executive dysfunction

becausedragonage:

vaspider:

mad-maddie:

shithowdy:

do stuff while waiting for other stuff

like that sounds intuitive and vague but so much of the day is spent in a period of wait and if you struggle to motivate yourself to do things then this is the best time

waiting for your water to boil? bag up your garbage. waiting for your coffee to drip? wipe down your counters. roommate taking up the bathroom? scoop the cat box. waiting for your food to cook in the microwave? do however many dishes you can while it’s in there. 

waiting is the perfect time to do a limited amount of something for yourself where you would be otherwise just standing around doing fuck-all

THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL!

I actually turn this into a game!

“How many chores can I do while the water is boiling for my tea?”

“Can I put away the dishes and wipe the counters before my lunch finishes reheating?”

“Can I sweep the floor AND change the laundry while the dogs are out back?”

You can totally do this! If you make it like a game, also, you will get better at it, and you can be like ‘yes, now I put away the dishes AND wiped out the sink before my water boiled, I am a level 2 Adult!’

Game everything. Make it all into a minigame. Executive dysfunction trembles in the face of ‘how much laundry can I fold between chat replies?’

starry-genome:

Please reblog if you are 20+ and are mentally ill. I see so many posts by mentally ill teenagers and that’s great, but I feel like I’m too old to have depression and anxiety and other mental issues to the extent that I do.

About to turn 31 next month. PTSD, two anxiety disorders, severe depressive episodes lasting 1-2 years at a time, plus the hypomanic swings of the Bipolar II spectrum with ADHD. I’ve tried fighting through it, ignoring it, making lifestyle changes, and being on a revolving rotation of different meds and doses since I was thirteen years old. 

Underneath all of that, I’m one of the most driven, ambitious people you could ever meet. I’ve worked insanely hard, sacrificed a lot, and never stopped trying to be more than my messed up brain chemistry. I came pretty close to getting everything under control in my early twenties, but around age 25 a significant and prolonged PTSD trigger led to a full-fledged nervous breakdown. (A solid couple of months of barely getting out of bed, never leaving the house, bouts of hysterical crying, total lack of hygiene, GOOD TIMES.)

You don’t outgrow mental illnesses. To paraphrase Stephen Fry on this subject, you’ll never be able to change the weather so it’s always bright and sunny; the best you can do is plan for the inevitable rain and know that it will pass again.