Healing does not mean going back to who you were before trauma. Trauma literally changes your brain chemistry.

No amount of people saying to “get over it” will make it better or make you who you were before trauma. That person may not exist again.

And that’s okay. It’s okay to be different. It doesn’t change your value, worth or anything like that.

People need to understand that for those who have gone through trauma experience things differently.

If you went through an abandonment as a child, a breakup others would get over with in months can take years to overcome.

If you went through domestic abuse, even small changes in a loved one's tone can make you anxious.

If you were belittled your whole childhood, being professionally critized at work can feel like the end of the world.

Trauma effects us for a long time after it occurs.

clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

A point to remember about Israel is that it forms a central point within a wider network of imperial control and exploitation across the Middle East. This includes the British-constructed Hashemite regime in Jordan, the military dictatorship of al-Sisi in Egypt, and the Western-armed petro-tyrannies of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. The Palestinian cause is stigmatised because it represents a real threat to this network of brutal wealth extraction and militarised oppression. Should it succeed in dismantling the Israeli apartheid regime, breaking the colonial system that crushes them, and proving that radical democracy can exist, the rest of these tyrannies will begin to crumble in their wake.

at the core of my being i'm a girl that loves sitting on the balcony

i take being a girl gentleman very seriously never forget that

“slut era” i whisper to myself as i rot in my bed, sick like a frail victorian child

all I'm saying is if I was someone's house cat I wouldn't be having these issues

guys i need you to be less comfortable making super negative comments abt a character in the tags of a random post abt that character. like i support haterism but make your own post. please stop and think about whether op, a person who is interested in this character enough to make posts abt them, wants to hear all that. i see this too much from people reblogging from me and it makes me embarrassed that you’re reblogging from me. you are being rude

I need to (remembers to not make casual suicide jokes in order to encourage a more outwardly positive mindset and healthy conversational environment in my day to day life) kill myself

I truly believe one of the most important things you can teach a person in school is how to analyze literature and art and movies so you know how to look at a work of art and place it both in its time and ours. To empathize with the artists behind it as they were and not as we are now. To recognize the ways in which humanity has grown or the connective tissue between us and the past. But mostly so I never have to see someone call a movie or its dialogue “cliche” or “stereotypical” when the cliche to which they’re referring was either quite literally invented or at least popularized by the movie they just watched.

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

James Dean photographed by Dennis Stock on the set of Rebel Without a Cause

the problem isn't just that media literacy is slowly becoming a dying art. it's that people straight up do not pay attention when they watch tv/film anymore.