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I've noticed that many of the most persistent childhood traumas related to being made to feel unwanted, a burden, the "bad" one. I think they may persist as "chronic mental illness" because being sick doesn't heal the wound of being a burden — being *the healer* does
I sincerely believe that many western communities are now suffering not for lack of services to be received by hurting people, but for lack of services to be *provided* by hurting people
Counterintuitive as it is, next time someone around you is struggling with living in their own head, don't ask how you can help; ask them to help you. If they don't, or they flake, just keep asking for small things. Don't pressure or punish for lack of follow-through, just ask
"You're not so broken that we don't need you" is something that has to be lived to be believed
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Universities are honestly the strangest institutions. Responsible for the feeding & caring of the nation's Science People, but also for credentialing a *bunch* of random jobs via licensure reqs that are all over the place; conduit for a $1.5T debt crisis but still much beloved
It's how I imagine religion *used to be,* so deeply entrenched and widely presumed that almost nobody even notices that the incentives at play seem unlikely to drive desirable outcomes and the proof is absolutely in the pudding
Does this seem a bit extreme? OK, but the story told by the numbers is that people are willing to pay essentially Infinite Dollars for whatever it is that college is gatekeeping, and back at the ranch scientific progress, the thing we were ostensibly funding, seems to have slowed
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Mason 🏃🏻✂️
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I had this convo with a friend recently — you must try to avoid looping on whether you're "good enough" or "deserve" x, y, z. There's no authority that can answer that. There's no divine stone tablet for self-grading. This is a perniciously egotistic way to drive yourself insane.
For whatever it's worth, you have my permission to accept it as a given that you're a perfectly fine human being, and to avoid self-referential thoughts as much as possible. If you can manage it, you'll probably find yourself getting a lot more done and feeling quite a bit better
You also may make better choices, because "this is a thing I'd like to do/make" is a better reason for doing stuff than "this will provide evidence that I am good enough." I've met many people stuck doing variations of the latter, feeling unmotivated, tired & still insufficient
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Mason 🏃🏻✂️
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After years of observation and study, I've concluded that the typical straight male goes through much — if not all — of his life quite deeply confused about why any woman would like *him* or the things he would like to do with and/or to her
Ladies, you will achieve inner peace when you realize that you have already won, and you're virtually always playing against yourself
The point I'm making here is that too many women approach relationships woth decent guys like they're negotiating an arms treaty with a foreign power presumed hostile, when in reality "I love the way you do that" is functionally a finishing move
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Hisham Ziauddeen
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Tweetpost:
No one: Hey Hisham, it’s been a long while since you did a tweetpost.
Me: Well I had one planned for World Mental Health Day 2019 but I got too busy and have just managed to finish it.
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1.This is going to be about two major parts of the reality of living with mental illness namely:
(1) these are often long term/recurrent illnesses
(2) a significant proportion of people will require long term treatment/support.
2.These are often the focus of debates that often don’t include or really consider/help the people they are most relevant to. I don’t really think there is anything to debate about these points and being mindful of them is vital for humility, compassion, fairness and hope.
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Other signs that don't mean a patient is faking:

• Being highly verbal, alert or clear thinking. Some of us are so traumatized or surging w/ pain, our hypervigilant, hyperalert brains push through SO much fatigue and cognitive fog to save our lives.

#PatientsAreNotFaking
• Being clean and well-groomed.

Many of us get clean before we come in if poss bc having people in our every orifice and unable to shower for days is more devastating than the 20min time delay doing so. Being in an waiting room for 4hrs makes it moot too.

#PatientsAreNotFaking
• Being well-dressed, having make-up on or just not being in PJs.

If you're chronically ill, everything's awful and terrifying, sometimes what you wear and how you present yourself is all you can control. Going above n beyond is sometimes MORE evidence of a body doing the same.
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.so. there was that top of the lake inspired thing that sometimes bites. out of context.

The only reason he doesn't slam the brakes the moment he hears the question is the fact he hasn't been paying too much attention to both the road - empty as usual - and the kid.
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This past week, I removed a toxic person from my life. It's time I talk about it.

CW: toxicity, abuse, gaslighting, mental illness

Also a disclaimer: I am not revealing or confirming the identity of this person, even though their identity may become obvious to some.
First of all, I want to make it clear that I am intentionally using the word choices about removing this person from my life, and ending the relationship.

If they had their say, they would argue that they were the one who 'ended it', and they would be technically correct.
Also: when I say relationship I am talking purely about a platonic consistent relationship. I do not feel comfortable calling it a friendship, though that is the closest thing it could be compared to. There was also a working relationship involved.

Just so no one gets confused.
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Memory loss is a major symptom of depression, and in fact of MANY mental illnesses and disorders.

This is because your cognitive processes are impaired - ie your processing speed is slow or faulty - and the brain is unable to store things correctly.
With depression in particular this is partly down to difficulty in differentiating between similar experiences.

Think about how often when severely depressed, your brain tells you that you have ALWAYS felt as depressed and terrible as you do at that moment.
Depression not only affects your short term memory (and in turn over time your long term memory of the period in which you were depressed)

it also corrupts your memory to convince you that you have ALWAYS felt the way you feel right now.
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