spreezpz:

spreezpz:

Therapists are just…. Common sense filters

Me: yeah so I just don’t have the energy to get up and make myself a sandwich or wait for something to cook so I just. Don’t

Her: why don’t you just eat the sandwich components without putting them together

Me:

Her: you can just eat a handful of cheese and some sandwich meat. You don’t have to make a sandwich.

Me:

Me: what

wilwheaton:

I reach out to my support network, starting with my wife, and I tell them that I feel like I’m about to go into crisis. Usually, that’s enough to help me stabilize and get through it.

If that doesn’t work right away (and sometimes it doesn’t), I’ll make an appointment to see my therapist or doctor, depending on how the Depression and/or Anxiety are expressing themselves.

If it doesn’t feel like crisis, but it does just feel … bad … I do my best to go through some steps, like a checklist:

Have I taken a shower today?

Have I eaten enough today?

Did I just have coffee today?

When’s the last time I took a walk, even if it’s just up the block?

Have I reminded myself that Depression Lies, and made efforts to make a separation between my mental illness and *me*?

I go through these steps, remind myself that I’ve gotten through the bad times in the past, and then I start doing my best to get to “yes” on those questions. Usually, that helps.

But remember that mental illness isn’t weakness, it’s sickness, and sometimes we can’t get well on our own. THAT IS OKAY! That is when we reach out to a professional who can help us get through it.

I hope this helps you. Please check in with me in a day or two, and let me know how you’re doing, okay? I’ll keep your reply private if you ask me to.

wilwheaton:

I reach out to my support network, starting with my wife, and I tell them that I feel like I’m about to go into crisis. Usually, that’s enough to help me stabilize and get through it.

If that doesn’t work right away (and sometimes it doesn’t), I’ll make an appointment to see my therapist or doctor, depending on how the Depression and/or Anxiety are expressing themselves.

If it doesn’t feel like crisis, but it does just feel … bad … I do my best to go through some steps, like a checklist:

Have I taken a shower today?

Have I eaten enough today?

Did I just have coffee today?

When’s the last time I took a walk, even if it’s just up the block?

Have I reminded myself that Depression Lies, and made efforts to make a separation between my mental illness and *me*?

I go through these steps, remind myself that I’ve gotten through the bad times in the past, and then I start doing my best to get to “yes” on those questions. Usually, that helps.

But remember that mental illness isn’t weakness, it’s sickness, and sometimes we can’t get well on our own. THAT IS OKAY! That is when we reach out to a professional who can help us get through it.

I hope this helps you. Please check in with me in a day or two, and let me know how you’re doing, okay? I’ll keep your reply private if you ask me to.

random-walking:

jack-of-none:

azzandra:

pfdiva:

azzandra:

dark-and-terrible:

hot life tip: 

if a family member or a loved one who you’re sure is supposed to be dead sends you any sort of correspondence and asks you to come to a place that’s either a) a swamp b) foggy town or c) a mansion

just don’t go

What about an amusement park. Can I go if a dead relative asks me to come to an amusement park? 

Probably not.  People with happy childhoods invited to amusement parks by dead relatives learn shattering truths about their childhoods and families, and people with unhappy childhoods invited to amusement parks by dead relatives have to fight monsters.

Either way, just order a pizza and stay home.

What about if a dead relative invites me to a regular park?

as a future dead relative, I understand why these sorts of communications with the living are very fraught. Is there a nice, neutral place I can invite my surviving descendants for a pleasant post-life discussion? 

this is a sincere question and not in any way a trap

Going to have to agree with the other people who suggested Denny’s.  Most are open 24 hours in case you can only meet at midnight, and, trust me, as long as you’re not, like, actively shedding body parts or covered in maggots, none of the staff are going to blink an eye when a postmortem individual comes in.  They’ve most likely seen worse already.