To feel good and happy and alive
~a safe place~
Hiiii this is a blog about bettering my physical fitness and mental health.
I am a Senior in university, and I have suffered from depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember. I spent the majority of highschool lying in my bed in the dark waiting for the day to be over so I could go to bed and forget. This depression led to the various eating disorders that I had as well. I have battled with bouts of anorexia, but my main issues were bulimia and overeating.
Now I am on my road to recovery, though I still have a long way to go I feel as if I have accomplished a lot. This blog is to help me commit to continuing on my journey to a healthier life.
My main aim is to become an all-round healthier person. I’m trying to achieve this my maintaining a more regular schedule in my life, eating healthy food in reasonable portions, exercising regularly, and regaining my motivation.
Here’s to a healthy life!
I am a Senior in university, and I have suffered from depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember. I spent the majority of highschool lying in my bed in the dark waiting for the day to be over so I could go to bed and forget. This depression led to the various eating disorders that I had as well. I have battled with bouts of anorexia, but my main issues were bulimia and overeating.
Now I am on my road to recovery, though I still have a long way to go I feel as if I have accomplished a lot. This blog is to help me commit to continuing on my journey to a healthier life.
My main aim is to become an all-round healthier person. I’m trying to achieve this my maintaining a more regular schedule in my life, eating healthy food in reasonable portions, exercising regularly, and regaining my motivation.
Here’s to a healthy life!
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The problem with suicidal thoughts is that they’re not just there when your sad. You’ll be there, chillin, reading a book or talking to a friend and you’ll think ‘This is nice. But do you know what would be better? Death.’
@lumos-vs-nox This is referred to as “mild suicidal ideation“ or the desire for suicide without substantial action behind it. It often happens when someone deals with prolonged mental health issues and suicidality at a young age. When you’re young, we go through a period where our neural pathways completely rearrange- the things that happen to us at that time will influence these changes. In a way, suicidal ideation becomes an ingrained coping mechanism. A sort of “well at least suicide is always there for me”. Your brain is part-muscle, it remembers things, it learns, it’s super great at adapting, this is just a reflex. It doesn’t mean you are weak, it doesn’t mean you aren’t in recovery.
thank you for posting this, you turned a feeling many people have into words!
shoutout to me for still not having my driver’s license
saving the ozone layer one anxiety at a time
guys. if you ever feel like suffocating in your own homes, or like in your room, fucking go out. please please do go out. the sea is nice, the mountains are fucking cool, evening walks, morning walks and afternoon walks are great, the air is clean and FRESH and relaxing and calming u should inject more happy oxygen in those sad lungs go go gooooo dont stay all day in that cave it’ll only make u extra sad than you already are please…. listeN…..
your parents’ disapproval doesn’t make you a bad person. just so you know.
i know that kind of rejection is incredibly painful, but it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.
- friend: why are you in a rush?
- me: i gotta get home
- friend: why?
- me: i've fulfilled my quota for socializing today
- me, if i talk: i'm being so annoying and everybody hates me and thinks i'm weird
- me, if i don't talk: i'm being so weird and distant and everybody hates me and thinks i'm weird
Small Ways To Improve Your Life
- make your bed to immediately make your room look more put together
- water first, then coffee or tea
- pray or meditate, even just for ten minutes, to set the tone for your day
- browse the news headlines ( & read the articles that interest you when you’ve got time)
- wear something you feel b o m b in
- listen to music while doing your daily activities-commuting, cleaning, cooking, exercising
- smile at at least two people
- smile at YOURSELF
- call or message someone you love
- eat food that makes you feel radiant
- make lists of things you need to accomplish for the day
- stretch for 10 minutes
- record in your phone the positive thoughts you have so you can remember them
- carry water with you (always always always)
- shut off your phone for an hour and have some ME time
- take a hot shower or bath at the end of a stressful day
- try to make plans to spend time with someone at least once a week
- think about 3 things you are grateful for at the end of each day
- do something calming, relaxing, and non-electronic 30 minutes before you sleep
- sleep pants-less
Really like this list.
it’s not bad or selfish or wrong to desire attention and love when you are feeling ill and upset. sometimes, you need other people to keep you afloat. that’s okay. you are not a burden. being needy is not a bad thing. you deserve to be cared for. it’s okay to ask for help.
sometimes people who are sad dont always need the “it gets better talk”
sometimes people just want to hear “you are sad, you are trying your best, and it’s okay. you’re okay and you’re alive and that’s a big accomplishment”
because i know for myself unconditional optimism gets really fucking annoying. sometimes i just want to be sad and have it be okay that im sad.
don’t make me feel weirder than i already do in my own skin.
I don’t necessarily work ‘better under pressure’, I just literally will not work until I am under the extreme pressure of time constraints created by my own unnecessary procrastination
"Other women are not my competition. I stand with them, not against them." — Dorado Beauty (via songstressaw)
being in a relationship with me is pretty good except for the part where i need to be reassured every forty minutes that you do actually love me and this isn’t some weird extended practical joke