So I found out a few months ago that wanting to ‘not exist’ or wishing you could ‘just sleep forever’ is also considered suicidal (specifically suicidal idealization). It shocked me cause I used to think that way when I was younger but had previously thought that being suicidal meant explicitly wanting to die.. but it actually involves wanting to not live too.
I think its an important thing to note cause it might allow someone to realize the severity of their condition earlier.
This was the funniest thing to me. Because I was talking to a counselor, and they were like “Are you suicidal?”
“No not really. But sometimes I don’t want to exist though”
“You do know that’s suicidal ideation?”
“…what?”
I wish I kind of knew before. Like honestly, we know so little about mental health.
there’s a difference between “just do a little yoga it will cure your depression forever :)” and “going for a run won’t solve your problems but it will make you feel a little better and that’s the first step” but this site seems to treat them as the same thing
Taking care of yourself is still good even if it won’t cure you. Cleaning my room won’t cure my anxiety or make me less lonely but it is a healthier environment to live in.
sometimes going for a run when you have depression is literally impossible (I know), but sometimes you can take smaller steps like going for a walk or stretching or doing some gentle exercises in your house (or even still in bed). sometimes you can’t clean your room, but you can put one shirt away, bring one glass to the sink, etc. they’re not a magical cure-all, but those baby steps help and they all add up
gentle reminder in this cold-n-flu season to not take mucinex if you’re also taking an SSRI (antidepressant)
always google “drug interactions [insert drug names]” to make sure that combining meds won’t make you more sick
mucinex DM specifically
the dextromethorphan reacts badly with the serotonin and can cause really bad anxiety and insomnia. it can also cause something called serotonin syndrome, or serotonin poisoning.
regular mucinex is ok, but you should always double check medication reactions!
Had a mild bout of serotonin syndrome this year and lemme tell ya folks it is NOT FUN and in serious situations can be fatal. Always follow medication dosing guidelines and ask if you aren’t sure!
D8
Also true of Robitussin DM. Anything with DM in the name, actually.
not to read too much into it but honestly I think the reason halloween resonates so much with so many people is that we’re used to feeling kind of like monsters most of the time. people with mental illness, people with disabilities (I’m not disabled myself so please correct me if this is overstepping), or even people who just feel ugly – people who are rejected by mainstream society in some way – are used to being treated like they’re “scary.” halloween, goth culture, and the genre/aesthetic of horror are all opportunities to reclaim and embrace that in a culturally acceptable way (especially in the case of halloween, which is celebrated by people both within and outside of these subcultures) and turn the feeling of seeming scary into something we can actually enjoy and have fun with. it’s a chance to relax and stop trying so hard to seem “normal”
(and I absolutely don’t want to romanticise mental illness or say that being mentally ill or disabled should be viewed as being scary. I’m saying that for better or worse, halloween feels like “our time” when the rest of the year feels like it belongs to the shiny happy people)
do you ever have like a breakdown but your logical brain is still active just thinking “ok this is annoying can we wrap this up so we can go back to bottling these feelings and like going to work or whatever” lol
like can we finish this early im trying to build a potato farm in minecraft
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