Coping with depression when you can barely get yourself out of bed is extremely difficult. Yet being active when you’re stuck, being productive when you feel you can’t get started, can make a big difference. Here is a writer who has found some excellent ways to manage her depression.Thinking of depression as a form of chronic pain, and managing it with the same strategies you would use for chronic pain, makes a lot of sense. I mean, depression IS chronic pain, both physical and mental. These are practical “tips” for dealing with chronic or recurrent depression.
truebluemeandyou: DIY Mediation or Keep Calm Jars. Reblogging because I saw a really expensive DIY today making a “timeout jar” when all you need are a few cheap ingredients. You can find glycerin at CVS, drug stores, markets etc… You could also make mini bottle pendants using this recipe. Check out supplies where I’ve listed tiny bottles in all shapes and sizes here.
DIY Meditation Jar. Great gift - put a great label on it like, “Keep Calm and Sparkle” or “Keep Calm and Glitter On” for a stressed out person (children or grownups). Saw something almost identical on Tumblr and reblogged it here but wanted to know where it came from. The idea came from Still Life with Circles here for use with children(Lower Right Photo). Her recipe has glycerin (used in all snowglobes) and liquid soap and is more snowglobe-like. Then Here We Are Together here (Left Photo) modified the recipe and added glue - go to the link to see exactly what she added.
I’m making like 5 of these
Love this. DIY Inspiration. Make illustrated white skeleton from real wire. Become famous for macabre art. Reminds me a little of the DIY Pink Fort with a Henry the 8th Vibe I posted here.
(Source: paintingsilentpoetry)
“The reason people don’t go for help is because there is still stigma. People don’t talk about mental illnesses the way they do other illnesses.” [Maria Bamford] launches into impressions of people talking about physical maladies the way they talk about depression:
“Apparently Steve has cancer. It’s like, fuck off! We all have cancer.”
“I was dating this chick all this time and she let me know she’s been wearing contact lenses. I said whoa, do what you need to do but I don’t believe in all that Western medicine shit. If you wanna see like other people it’s all about attitude. You gotta want it.”
I wrote about Maria Bamford, Mike White, and kicking the stigma surrounding mental illness at Splitsider. (via ceedling)(Source: marisacarroll, via bdsupport)
So I haven been real open lately on my life happenings. While I feel that my relationship is good it still seems that we take 1 step forward and 2 back or vice versa so we never get far. I just don’t know how to say I need to move forward for good. Put the pain and the past of work stuff behind us so we can focus on our relationship. I want babies. I want financial stability. Its so hard to stay in the moment and not get ahead of things but its just as difficult to feel that there isn’t a stagnation of staying in one place or situation. While I have been too chicken to really bring up what I want I do feel that he wants to at least get married and that the relationship is what he wants long term.
Then there also is the part of me that just wants to go. Just wants to be free. Do what I want, when I want. Its nice to be able to have that freedom. This is where my feelings get mixed. I want kids, I want a relationship both of which mean that I don’t have that freedom anymore.
LIFE IS A CONUNDRUM
(via corsets-and-clockwork)
Beautiful Weimaraner, Weimaya, giving her mommy a nice, heartfelt hug. Now that’s what I call love!
Via @weimaya
For more cute dogs and puppies
Omg reminds me of my Daisy mae
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Lesbian crush for real
(Source: conjugue-a-vida, via thislife-isyours)
