No amount of potential “success” (however you define it) is worth losing your mental health.

Your ideal career, body, being what your parents wanted, best clothes, most follows, biggest bank account? NONE of it is worth a damn if the struggle to reach it kills you inside. People are always like “go for your dreams” & “you can do anything you set your mind to,” but that’s terrible advice if the price of achieving your dreams is to lose your joy in life. You won’t suddenly get that joy back once you “get there.” It doesn’t work like that.

Y’all, it’s Mental Health Month & I have MDD (aka “clinical depression”) am currently in the middle of a depressive episode. What this means for me: a period of weeks or months when I have very limited “hit points” (aka physical/emotional energy) >

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth I have brain fog, sometimes a sense of “lost time,” poor executive functioning, general exhaustion, bad memory, avd yes the typical symptoms of getting triggered into random crying bouts I can’t explain, hopelessness, being overwhelmed, & yeah the passive suicidal ideation. >

Dear budding academics: When you write a cover letter for a teaching appointment of any kind, there are several things you need to understand. <thread> 1. Your adviser in your PhD program (not always, but usually) came to your R1 university from another R1 university. They do not experientially "get" what's going on in 95% of the profession.

Ok folks, there seems to be a lot of misinformation regarding what a Nazi is or is not, so here’s a quick primer:

Nazi - short for Nationalsozialismus, aka national socialism, which despite the name, has *nothing* to do with Marx/Lenin.

In fact, it’s quite the opposite. 1/ Indeed, Nazi Germany fought Stalin and the USSR (aka United Soviet *Socialist* Republic). So no, Nazis were never socialists in the actual historical sense.

They were *National Socialists* aka a populist/extreme nationalist movement that developed in Germany in the 1920s. 2/

A student named Nick Pietrangelo wrote a racist rant about DACA and the stance my employer has taken in favor of protecting students. > Although ppl are free to express whatever shit they want without fear of censorship, it doesn't free them from others' reactions. >