#mentalheathawareness

Recovery is an amazing thing

This episode is a reminder that being mentally tough is as important as being physically strong

welp.. I’m back, lockdown got me effed up

rest is sacred

your rest is sacred.

it can’t be earned or worked for

your rest is a gift

lovelybluepanda:

What can you write in a journal for mental health?

Recently I was looking for some stickers and I found a tiny journal. I’m thinking of using it for mental health purposes.

These are the things I’ll write in it:

• Quotes that I find very motivational
• Moments from books that inspire me.
• Reasons why I like myself
• Reasons why others like me
• How I have improved my life with tiny changes
• Short plans on how to achieve certain goals or how to change things
• Bucket lists~
• Things that make me happy
• Character analysis for characters that inspire me and what traits I want to adopt from them
• Stuff that my friends said and they stuck with me over the years, motivational or just compliments
• My favorite coping mechanisms
• Compliments/encouraging words towards my person when I feel like giving up or when my self-esteem is down

Saw this on Pinterest and thought it might apply to adhd as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thetattoo really does say it all….

Should I be concerned by how often my inner monologue is a dialogue?

Simone Biles

She didn’t quit

She didn’t give up

She didn’t cower

She did what we have been taught

Is the one thing

Magical Black Women

CAN NOT DO

Put ourselves first

Our health

Our bodies

Our minds

Our talent

Our desires

Our strength

Our beauty

Our genius

Our abilities to fly

To soar

To win

Are supposed to be laid at the feet

Of whiteness

Of this nation

Of this world

Offered up like a sacrifice

The rent we are expected to pay

To be seen as

Athlete

Entertainment

Disposable

But never whole

Worthy of protection

Worthy of peace

We are never supposed to

Get off the stage

Leave the competition

Demand solace

Without permission

Permission to be human

Permission to rest

Permission that is always

Denied

She did what

Black Women

are told

We can not do

She took her power

And walked away

She determined what was best

For her

For her soul

Her heart

Her life

We are watching

Learning

Following the trails blazed

Rest should not be a Revolution

But it is

And she is

And that is worth more than

Any medal or title

On earth

Self-care Queen - Simone Biles ❤️‍♀️

Author - @leslehonore (They replaced with She)

Model - @simonebiles

Photography credit - @sportsillustratedswimsource

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To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, this month’s take and make craft is a water bead stress ball. Come to the YA area on the 2nd floor at Headquarters to pick up a self care kit that includes our take and make craft, a self care monthly calendar for tweens/teens, bookmarks, a list of YA books about mental health, and more. The bags are located next to our graphic novels. Currently, we have 12 of our 15 bags left! Available first come, first serve.

Parents really be asking their child why they don’t talk abt their mental health with them anymore after stigmatizing mental illnesses, psycho and neuro atypical people, fatshaming and telling them to lose weight, slutshamming daughters, saying it’s not depression but laziness, considering that since they provide a roof food and education they have no reasons to have a breakdown, telling them having suicidal thoughts is selfish and ungrateful, laughing at autistic and disabled people, being lgbt-phobic, considering any interests unrelated to school/future carrier as childish, always comparing them to others and being condescendant and judgemental all the time

Please just don’t procreate at this point

Dear Diary,

I feel like I was born to be hated.

Dear ▇▇▇,

You were so kind before they dragged you to hell.

Dear Diary,

I don’t want to die but I need this to end.

Dear Diary,

Why do people forget about me so fast?

Dear Diary,

I don’t care about anything anymore. I’ve buried my dreams so deep within myself no amount of self harm could ever carve them out.

Dear Diary,

I don’t think I was meant to live.

Dear Diary,

Why do I feel so much?

Dear Diary,

Living with memory loss is hard, I can’t reminisce about my childhood, I can hardly experience nostalgia. At least I get to make new, happy memories everyday. That’s the only thing that makes me happy and that’s enough for me.

Dear Diary,

She called me an angel with slit wrists.

Dear ▇▇▇,

The way you give me attention and affection so unpredictably makes me miss you even more. Everytime I see your name pop up on my screen I immediately forget how miserable I feel and become even more desperate for you. Can you feel it too, the kind of pain made out of real love?

Dear Diary,

I find it so funny when people tell me “it’s all in your head” , uh ya that’s kind of the problem.

Dear Diary,

You know those times when there’s a really significant event in your life and so your abuser reaches out to you but you have to be nice to protect yourself?

Dear Diary,

I am greatful for my depression. If I hadn’t experienced such awful things in life then I would never know true happiness.

Dear Diary,

Apparently I’m too young to know abuse.

Dear Diary,

I was stupid for believing I could accomplish anything, my pathetic life isn’t heading anywhere.

Dear ▇▇▇,

I hate you for making me miss you so much. Your hurtful words chip away at my soul yet I still think about you everyday at least a thousand times or more. Use me, abuse me I still miss you. You say you love me the most but you treat me like I’m never there. I crave you, i’ll do for your attention.

Dear Diary,

How can I be honest with my therapist but not so honest that I get institutionalized?