• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I did this when I was a teenager and it was surprisingly effective at helping me get out of a depressive period.

      Instead of barking I would drown out the negative with a small, pre-thought up, positive sentence about myself. When I caught the negative thoughts, I’d drown them out with it in my head.

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      9 months ago

      i do it with little songs or like jazz scatting (lol).

      But it doesn’t help for nighttime lying in bed (especially if my partner is asleep) - so for that I use the method where you consciously check in and stop moving and relax each muscle in your body as granulary as you can - toes, heels, tops of feet, ankles, calves… all the way up to head.

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    9 months ago

    People think I’m weird because I meow randomly but I am actually weird because I meow to interrupt thoughts I don’t wanna have

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        9 months ago

        All of Hyperbole and a Half was great.

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          9 months ago

          I hope the author’s doing okay. From what I understand she was struggling with some pretty severe depression, which is why she stopped posting.

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    9 months ago

    If they can’t handle me at my worst (insufferable), then they don’t deserve me at my best (tolerable)

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    9 months ago

    I don’t get how someone can worry about this when they’re in a relationship. There’s clearly nothing that wrong with them if they have living proof of the opposite standing right there.

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      9 months ago

      A love relationship is different from a work relationship or a friendship. They require different skills, functions and have different stakes.