This Applies EVEN IF YOU ARE ALREADY SUICIDAL, So Don't Give Me The Whole "I'm Actually Doing This To

this applies EVEN IF YOU ARE ALREADY SUICIDAL, so don't give me the whole "I'm actually doing this to die, not to lose weight" thing. i was there. i was already suffering, but this shit made me go insane in my head even more than i already was. it made me constantly angry, brought me to the point where i started cutting myself (which i now can't stop), made me lonely and misrable from having to constantly lie to my family and brought two extra suicide attempts on me.

I'm not telling you to fix your mental health, i know from experience that feeling like you are morally required to get better can make things worse, but please, for the love of god, if you haven't started a new form of self destruction yet, don't. you dont have to have an eating disorder (this one applies to both the proanas and the promias) to be mentally ill. you don't have to cut to be mentally ill. you don't have to do drugs to be mentally ill. getting these won't prove anything, it will just put you in a loop of addiction you can't pull out of that will ruin your body. and if you already got yourself one or more of these, I am not telling you what to do, but if you feel at all sympathetic to the concept of quitting, here's your permission to not feel shame for that. 90% of the self-destruction-romanticizing pages you're following would support you in getting better, and the remaining 10% are, as i am sorry to inform you, horrible people. and i just want you to remember- what's happening to you is bad. and if you get the chance to, the actual chance to, you should do your best and get out of it. and this one i will actually tell you. because you deserve to know this.

tips for people new to ana/fasting

• leave • leave • get help before it’s too late • leave • delete this app • LEAVE

Why does half of the discworld watch series sound like someone's thoughts on the american police system that were posted on this website a few years ago?

One thing I love about cabaret (the movie), is how it understands privilege better than a lot of people nowadays. Like, yes, the cabaret making fun of the Nazis is unequivocally a good thing, but while they're putting on shows and laughing with the crowd, the Jewish lady who lives down the street has to hide in her home while the Nazis are chanting "Juden!" Outside and leaving the corpse of her dog on the stairs, and she can't really join the fun, can she? And it doesn't mean they're doing something wrong, this is just how power disparities work, and we should at least be aware of that.

Here's your reminder that if you've got your own personal shit to deal with, especially if your health, safety or ability to immediately function in society is on the line, it is perfectly fine to aknowlage political events that are outside of your control as something you genuinely can't worry about. Your responsibility is to yourself before it is to society. If opening the news makes you suicidal, you don't have to. If donating means compromising the money you need to function daily, you don't have to. If "speaking out" means having to cut people you love out of your life, you don't have to. Nobody should be telling you to throw yourself into something that is killing you internally/putting you into debt/taking away your ability to just live your life/meaningfully harming you in any other ways just to perform some kind of moral duty.

Honestly, the fact that people on this platform will be more likely to assume you're a terrible person if you identify as a libertarian or a proshipper than if you choose to turn down treatment for mental illness that takes a toll on everyone else in your life actually really sucks. Because statistically, you aren't. The fact that you picked an unpopular side in some culture war doesn't tell us much about how much you care about other people, at least not as much as it does to explicitly, intentionally choose your own autonomy over their well being. I'm not saying it makes you a bad person, but it is an indicator, and a bigger one at that than most of the stupid shit people call you a bad person for on this platform.

Will wood is like if cavetown was David Bowie.