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Nothing is harmless (Precept Fifty-One)

Random pieces of advice

The world is less scary and chaotic if you lie down on the floor

Noticing different kinds of light (stars, candles, sunshine or city lights) can bring back the feeling of wonder and hope

If you can’t shower, washing your hands and face will help you feel better and cleaner

If you can’t clean anything else, changing and/or washing your bedsheets can do wonders

Fresh air and being outside in general can help with depersonalisation

Spending time around animals can help you recognise what’s important and calm anxious thought cycles

Techniques for emotional regulation in children can really help adults too

Putting random asortment of food on a plate without creating an actual dish still counts as a meal

Drink something warm

Delete that app

Treat yourself as if you were a kid. Buy yourself a toy, play around, learn about cool new things

Fast paced life isn’t morally better and it’s not good for everyone

There is no good reason to keep yourself hungry

Singing to your full lung capacity can be a great way to let out built up emotion

Tension in the face can cause headaches. Try to massage your face regularly

Nothing is as important as your health

You are a whole person on your own, you don’t need someone else to be there to deserve love and attention. Your life can be full as long as you are present

You should cry things out whenever you feel like it

Slow walks are still movement and they do count

It’s never as bad as you imagine it

Try changing your toothpaste flavor if you hate brushing your teeth

Anything can be a stim toy - one of my favourites is a heavy dragon necklace that has a complicated surfice. It’s fun to touch and hold and it’s not even “actual” stim toy

Procrastinating and feeling bad about it is true waste of time. Learn to truly rest. It takes the same amount of time but it is useful

Sometimes you have to force yourself to do the things that make you feel better

Don’t trust the thoughts you have after not sleeping for a while

Friendships don’t have to be forever to mean something

remembered to water my plants because i realized i have not touched any other humans in days and figured i should at least go poke a plant.

I think the thing that drives me the most batshit about the medical fatphobia conversation is that the burden of proof feels so exactly backwards. Just from an obvious best practices standpoint???

Things like intentional malnourishment, intentionally incapacitating vital organs through surgery, denial of potentially lifesaving medical care until those things are done, etc.

Those are all pretty extreme. The kinds of things it feels like a “first do no harm” system should have a lot of solid evidence for before recommending or implementing them.

But they’re so bog standard and accepted and everyone from doctors to your own family will look at you like you’re a flat-earther when you suggest maybe we shouldn’t be defaulting to that.

“do it for the vine” = allow yourself to live life in the moment instead of maintaining a facade of normalcy for the enjoyment of not only yourself but of those around you

“commit to the bit” = adhere to the guidelines of an event that will in retrospect be nothing but a minuscule footnote, but continue to execute it for the complex web of happiness it brings you and your collective now

“fuck it we ball” = get the most you can out of life by putting the very thrill of being alive first and everyday occurrences and responsibilities last

there’s nothing purer or better than how much kids enjoy being picked up and then hurled at soft surfaces

Sometimes I tell my mom I don't like something and she goes "No!!!! You used to LOVE this thing!!!!!" And I ask When. When did I last express desire for this thing. And she goes "When you were four you could not get ENOUGH of this thing" and I say Mother. I am Twenty Six

we did some cool things in english today and if i was comfortable existing in that class they would've been fun to do but i'm not so they couldn't be and it's so unfortunate that i'm starting to realize i actually enjoy parts of english as my ability to enjoy this class (teachers, school) rapidly plummets.

interesting how organization is literally just taking similar things and putting them together over and over again until you're happy. like if you do this and then you're not happy because it's not precise enough? put similar things together with more specificity so that your pile of clothes becomes separated into shorts vs pants vs etc. or whatever. if you do this and then you're not happy because you have piles of stuff on your floor? take all the similar things and put them together in a closet or on a shelf

there's like putting similar things together until you have things separated enough (clothes into pants vs socks vs shirts vs underwear vs etc.) and then there's putting similar things together until you have things stored in a logical enough manner (bowls near plates near utensils near knives near etc.)

the urge to message all of my friends one by one to say hello hi hey I missed you today I wish we could've talked more today how was your day how are you doing what did you do today without sounding needy and clingy </3

No more girlbossing i want to girl rest girl sleep girl lay down etc

i mean

so assuming that taxes go to help the poor which i think is pretty standard taxes are charity because you are paying money and then that money is going to help people who need help (i mean not really but that's the intent so it kinda counts) and then that is also insurance because if you lose your job or whatever and suddenly you are one of those poor now all those taxes you paid back when you were well off are (theoretically) going to help you and so it's insurance that you'll have some basic level of living which is hopefully a decent level of living where all of your basic needs are met. and then! you get to also pay for things that you are currently using! like roads and schools and all of those things that you currently use all the time? every time you pay taxes you are also benefitting your current self.

taxes

taxes are literally charity and insurance and buying stuff for yourself all at once what is there to dislike