We are all doing our best but I think sometimes doing your best means sitting in your dumpster of a home with all of your shit and staring off into space and letting whatever you're feeling flow. Like it's a full depression pit in there, it's been over a year since you've done some serious spring cleaning but you still can't. You've just gotta sit there and keep telling yourself to breathe through your nostrils instead of forcibly suffocating yourself and just..... exist in the moment. It fucking sucks. I know none of us want to exist. But sometimes it's for the best. And I know you're overwhelmed and I know it feels like it'll be even more overwhelming to just stare your monsters in the face, but once yall have sat together long enough, NOT FIGHTING AND NO QUALMS, just.....living with it.....it eventually passes

sometimes you get diagnosed with ADHD as an adult which finally makes your mom actually listen to what ADHD actually is and that she didn't cure it by making me do 100 jumping jacks as a kid when I got too hyper and then she realizes that she may have it too

And then you both realize that like 70% of the family probably also has adhd and that's why we are all Like That

When you're doing research for a character about mental illness and now you're questioning if you're bipolar. Like no please I just wanted to make sure I was writing the symptoms and behaviours right and now I'm going to be thinking about this everyday whenever I let myself think

I have the annoyingly verbose form of autism, evidenced by the fact I use words like "verbose."

My partner has ADHD and struggles with blocks of text, whether it be processing the words, parsing the text, or even just having the attention span to finish reading the block. Apparently reading is notoriously hard for people with ADHD for a variety of reasons. I'm a hyperlexic autistic who loves reading scientific journals for fun so I don't know what thats like and it sounds unfortunate.

To combat this for my poor Aly, I leave TLDRs at the end of my text blocks in our discord DM, so that if her brain isn't cooperating with my excessive use of the English language she can read a couple sentences that sum up what I said instead!

I think it probably also helps me learn how to be brief when summarizing events to someone.

Either way, making things accessible doesn't have to be a huge grand project. You can just start using TLDRs when you write a big paragraph.

TLDR adhd makes reading hard so to help your adhd having homies you can put a little summary at the bottom of your paragraphs so they can get the idea of the conversation even with a bad attention span!

Starting to wonder if I have bipolar but then I would literally have almost every mental illness. Like fr I'm not kidding you, I'm a collector and I never chose this

christ alive im tired of symptoms disorder

little doodles about figuring out more about your mental illness after YEARS of a diagnosis!!! boy am i glad i figured it out i just wish it happened before i went on a whole arc about it!

legit wondering if when I start going to the doc for all my physical shit I should ask abt who I should see abt maybe getting mood stabilizers

i'm sick of this unending cycle of getting eight million ideas and scrambling from one to the next before burning myself out on all of them and falling into a depression and hating myself for not doing any of the eight million things I was excited about

tumblr reccomending me “actual b/p/d” posts

How do u know if its love or mental illness?

what. the FUCK is going on with my brain today 👁_👁

me at my annual doctor visit, visibly suffering- oh those meds? no i decided to quit them all and quit therapy cold turkey. also I never scheduled the procedure for my back

my very hip lesbian doc- you WHAT

so fucking funny how i'll describe a Brain Thing and someone will be like "oh i have adhd too so i get it" and i have to explain how i have bipolar disorder which has a ton of crossover with adhd it's just talked about less bc there's more of a stigma around it

i just realized a mutual is kinda using bipolar disorder for comedic value with an oc gonna not make anything of that rn cuz i kinda mood too much with grey so that means i cant bother to care

you know how VLC has an always on top setting? I wish it also had a transparency setting so I could put it right on my reticle and watch movies whilst gaming

15 year old google psychologist on tiktok: you HAVE to be PROFESSIONALLY DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM or else youre a FAKER whos STEALING RESOURCES from ACTUAL PEOPLE WITH AUTISM

psychiatrist: you dont act autistic. ok well i guess you acted autistic as a kid but not now so clearly something changed. whats masking?

psychiatrist: you experience a lot of traits of autism but you made eye contact with me for a bit so you cant be autistic

psychiatrist: you cant be autistic because youre too smart

psychiatrist: well you experience profound symptoms of autism but your brothers already diagnosed with autism and thats not possible for you both to be

psychiatrist: ok you seem autistic however youre a teenage girl. have you considered you might have borderline personality disorder/bipolar disorder instead?

*also when you get diagnosed*

psychiatrist: i cant advocate for your disabling ptsd to the government, i can only do autism. yes i know your autism isnt the actual problem here but have you considered that youre just being autistic about it?

psychiatrist: i cant write a letter of recommendation for gender affirming care because youre autistic. yes i know you work a full time job and live independently but youre not capable of making these decisions

psychiatrist: *doesnt try to treat/talk about anything but the autism*

the 15 year old again: i know you SAID youre diagnosed with autism but i dont believe you because anyone can say that, so im going to continue to harrass you about it anyway