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The existence of the winter solstice is a great thing in principle because misery really is easier to bear when you know for a fact that it won't last forever, but the fact that it's on a precise timetable makes it weird. Knowing that it's going to keep on getting steadily worse for exactly nine days and fourteen hours and not a moment longer creates some strange behavioural incentives, is what I mean to say.
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spring is coming. Spring IS COMING. You will stand on soft grass again, and feel the sun kiss your cheeks and shoulders. you will eat of the same berries as the animals returned from their hibernation. you will hear the air alive with your collective breathing.
#i must be reminded#it will always come again#seasonal affective depression#seasonal affective disorder#s.a.d.#writing#spilled ink#fragments#poetry#spring#march
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friendly reminder that you don't need any diagnosis or disorder to adapt your routine to accommodate you! sit down in the shower. brush your teeth and wash your face in the shower. bring a chair to the kitchen while you cook. use unscented products. your routine should be built for you.
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we were drunk off mezcal and my dog had his paws crossed like he was fancy and we were giggling about it and i told you that with the sun coming back i can feel my fingers again and you grabbed my wrist and jokingly shook my limp hands while saying i have you i got you and i wanted to tell you i love you in that moment but it's actually just that it's spring and love actually seems like something that i can afford once in a while so long as i'm not overwhelmed by the crushing weight of having to do my laundry
i don't get so sad on sundays anymore and part of that is you but also part of it is that i've been watching a bird melodrama in the tree outside my window - first the robins had the run of it, then the doves. most recently a family of sparrows came through. the sky was pink today like a kiss, and i felt the pastel wrap in a warm piebald snake around my chest and hum herself into my bones
thank god for every person that forgives me for the depressive spirals i go on every winter without-fail like i swear there are absolutes in this world and it's stuff like. stoats go white in winter. the sun comes over the east. when it gets cold all parts of my soul go numb and the light can't pass through my iris without a tattoo gun. how many times can i tell a friend i'm sorry i wasn't talking to you, i truly wasn't talking to anyone
thank god i can feel my skin right now and you hold my weak little hand in your hand and then you flip it over so you can read my palm and you're smiling while you run fingertips over lines and read out my fate like it says here you like a good grillcheese sandwich and admit it you make salads by buying the pre-made spring mix and i have all your astrology shit memorized and i read your horoscope first when i'm checking my own even-though-i-don't-believe-in-it (but just in case) and i want to kiss you just to watch the blush spread in a tulip from under your freckles in that way it does, how you pull back and wrinkle your nose in laughter
thank god but today for the first time in a month i finally texted my friends back and actually made plans to hang out (how's that! barring disaster!) and i let my dog put his big muddy paws on my nice sweater and yeah actually when it's bad i always think i can't do that again. i can't crawl back up that mountain
but the sun touched me on the face this morning and we had a nice long talk about it and i said i gotta go the long way again huh and she nodded and shook back her solarflare hair and looked over to her moon girlfriend and she said you can do it. better things on the horizon.
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#dont worry im ok! im just goin through it.#anyway just gonna keep it rollin w comics that make me physically cringe as i contemplate the post button#comics on tumblr#artists on tumblr#emotional regulation#diary comic#corvid#seasonal depression#seasonal affective disorder#davedrawsstuff#no image description#drowning cw#thalassophobia cw
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Monday, November 27.
Holiday Blues 2023.
It's not just November, nay, it's nearly December. The mornings are getting darker. The evenings are, too, and it's only getting chillier. The holidays approach, as the holidays are wont to do. And we know that this is not good news for everybody. In fact, the seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) struggle is real, and if you're finding these first days of winter difficult, you're not alone. Far from it, in fact.
Well, fancy that. If you suffer from holiday blues, we've got one or two things that might be of help to you. It's Holiday Blues, from @postitforward, and it's back for 2023.
#today on tumblr#winter#winter blues#holiday blues#holiday season#S.A.D.#seasonal affective disorder#seasonal affective depression#self care#mental health#healing#holidayblueswithtumblr#holidayblues#mental health matters#wholesome#winter moodboard#signal boost
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The Luggage might be magical. It might be terrible. But in its enigmatic soul it was kin to every other piece of luggage throughout the multiverse, and preferred to spend its winters hibernating on top of a wardrobe.
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
#the luggage#rincewind#sourcery#discworld#terry pratchett#character description#magical#terrible#hibernation#winter#seasonal affective disorder#in its enigmatic soul#the multiverse
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the end of september—I'm feeling hopeful and scared. already, I'm falling into familiar joys. oh right, I do love making a mess of the kitchen sometimes. I love bringing something hot and homemade to my lips. I forgot—it's perfectly fine to snuggle up and cross-stitch, to fall asleep to a documentary I'll no doubt restart tomorrow; to watch my craving for a shower uptick as a substitute for warm touch. I blow the dust off of sweaters that do a great job of holding me close. every year it starts the same: worrying what the fall might bring. remembering what slow comforts worked for me the year before. afraid, again, of the days I might scrape myself out of bed like burnt edges at the bottom of a pan.
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People: Make bracelets with your favourite song lyrics to trade at concerts!
Me listening to Northern Attitude ft Hozier on loop: Got it.
#noah kahan#hozier#music#folk#folk music#friendship bracelets#seasonal affective disorder#tis the season#for screaming at the cold#halogen
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As the days get shorter, start thinking about what rituals you want to introduce to ease the transition into winter. I posted about this extensively last year and it kept SAD at bay. The idea is retreating and claiming coziness in your life. Here are mine:
started closing my curtains at 7:30 so the change won’t feel so abrupt once it gets dark at 5 — will up by 15 mins every week until time change
have started lighting a candle each night when I close the curtains
upped my vitamin
Hung up my fall moon phases craft and moon wreath
made a solstice paper chain to countdown from vernal equinox to winter solstice
weekly fall simmer pot
have started seed saving and garden harvesting for next year
Have 3-4 indoor art projects lined up
Purchase any extra insulating things (window film, weather stripping, blankets, etc)
Purchased extra air filters so I can change every month (allergy household!) (not that even in the coldest part of winter I open my windows for 10-15 mins each day to air out the house)
Stocking the freezer with single serve soups (faves for my gf/df free life are chili, chicken and rice, squash, pinto, veggie and turkey and bean)
Whatever your rituals, now is the time to start implementing!
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Gettin my seasonally depressed ass into the sunshine
I watched a sunset for the first time in years???
#trans punk#queer punk#genderqueer#seasonal affective disorder#seasonal depression#winter depression#selfie#queer punx#trans punx#punk jacket#genderqueer dyke#genderqueer butch#genderqueer lesbian#nonbinary lesbian#they them butch#Aqueertalksqueerly
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if despair is a frigid wind
Hope is dripping sun
Let my fingers find the
Flowers I've forgotten when
Winter gets her teeth in me
#poem#poetry#original poetry#poets on tumblr#spilled ink#original poem#reminders#seasonal affective disorder
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I remember the first time I learned what seasonal affective disorder was it was framed as “when you experience depression only in the cold fall-winter months” and I was like “that is ridiculous to me, those are the only months I feel happy in and every day that is warm and sunny makes me completely listless and miserable to the point where I just want to fast forward my life so I don’t have to experience a single drop of this weather because too many days of sun and heat in a row will literally put me on the verge of tears from how much I hate it with every fiber of my being” and then years later found out that S.A.D. can happen with any season and not just winter and I was like well that explains a lot lol
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Spring sadness is real!
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