My smartphone is an endless pit of screenshots about mental health, mostly tweets, that encouraged me to keep going every single day and to keep believing that I'm going to be okay. Tweets, from strangers, that reminded me that struggling with your mental health isn't something to be embarrassed about, that it is important to talk about our feelings and to be honest. Be honest with ourselves and with the people around us. I wanted to share some of those with you today because the new year is starting and that is something that I've personally always struggled with. New beginnings. Change. I've done a lot of healing in 2018 and I'm planning on taking that energy with me but I'm also afraid. Have I done enough? I embedded a bunch of amazing mental health tweets, for you and for me, to make sure we remember that we're worthy and that it's okay to be afraid, that we have done enough and that we are enough.
If you want to give up right now because the pain you feel is unbearable, I see you. If you want to run and hide and break down, I see you. If life feels a little too much today, I see you. In a world where so much of our pain is hidden and invisible just know, I see you.— Grace ☾ (@GraceFVictory) November 13, 2018
I’m reminded that unexpressed grief hides in the body. And some mornings, it rises to the surface for a deep breath. I’m learning not to feel anger with myself for the grey mornings. This is my body finally breathing for the moments it held its breath.— jah (@urfellowcolored) October 18, 2018
I give myself permission to be both. pic.twitter.com/PHiVTjZuVp— alexandra elle (@_alexelle) August 28, 2018
Your body is fine.— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) October 29, 2018
Your wardrobe is fine.
Your skin is fine.
You aren't a phone.
You don't need an upgrade to justify your existence.
Life isn't some race to stay in the same place.
It's really quite okay to be you.
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” -Robin Williams https://t.co/xRs4Gvu4HE— Ev (@EvanMcGuire97) October 22, 2018
Things I have been told are unmanly:— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) October 17, 2018
- white wine
- Maltese terriers
- papooses
- Reading novels
- sharing emotions
- going to a Katy Perry concert
- love songs
- musicals
- chocolate
- yoga
- cocktails
- basically everything else that makes life nice
Maybe you don’t need to try and work on everything, maybe you don’t always need to push things out of you, maybe you just sit with it and let the uncomfortable feeling move through you instead 🍃— Grace ☾ (@GraceFVictory) October 14, 2018
As a retired empath. I no longer unconsciously absorb others feelings. I know how to tell what is mine and what is not. I know how to say, I feel you, literally, WITHOUT absorbing it into my physical body. I know how to and enjoy feeling my own feelings.— Maryam Hasnaa (@Maryamhasnaa) October 5, 2018
if it’s toxic, let it breathe elsewhere. stop waiting for bad love to feel good again. stop waiting for bad love to taste sweet. empathy won’t change stones into gold. time won’t change poison into honey.— billy chapata. (@iambrillyant) October 4, 2018
Feeling the fear of intimacy, of being seen, of ultimately loving and being loved but staying anyway and deciding not to run, is bravery 🌷— Grace ☾ (@GraceFVictory) October 4, 2018
Some symptoms of depression are feeling guilty and worthless for no reason, sometimes we try to make these feelings go away by trying to help others, this isn’t a bad thing but please don’t sacrifice yourself in the process. You don’t owe anyone anything.— Depression Notes™ 📄 (@depressionnote) September 19, 2018
I'm not walking on egg shells around my feelings incase they make someone else feel uncomfortable. This is MY heart. This is MY truth. How you receive me is based on your own reality. And your reality is not mine.— Grace ☾ (@GraceFVictory) September 18, 2018
I see mental illness as being in a constant state of recovery. There’s always going to be bad days, but there will be very good days, too. It’s something you’ve got to constantly work at - a bit like mental health maintenance. And that’s okay.— hattie gladwell (@hatttiegladwell) September 8, 2018
You are more than that conversation, awkward moment, and weird glance.— Liana Naima (@LianaNaima) September 1, 2018
You are divine in every sense of the word. You are a multidimensional being trying to simplify your essence into words. You are beyond words and people are just trying to simplify you when they judge you.
mental illness really can be more consuming than a full time job. It takes you away from friendships, family, and your passions. Be kind to yourself, remain hopeful, and please try to get help. You deserve that— Jessie Paege (@jessiepaege) June 27, 2018
My loyalty ends where someone else’s needs require me to abandon my own.— Maryam Hasnaa (@Maryamhasnaa) November 29, 2018
You’re allowed to be alone and feel whole in your solitude.— alexandra elle (@_alexelle) November 29, 2018
You’re allowed to be an individual even in romantic partnership.
You’re allowed to be loved fiercely.
You’re allowed to take care of yourself.
You’re allowed to love yourself unapologetically and not settle for less.
Don’t force things. If you can’t find the energy to do something, maybe now’s not the time. Will the world truly end if you don’t do this right now? Sometimes we feel like we have to do things that are stressing us out, when actually nothing will happen if we don’t do them.— Merry Maud 🎄 (@MaudMPP) December 4, 2018
i hope you learn to be everything for yourself before you try to be anything for anyone else. i hope you learn to swim in your own essence before looking for waters elsewhere. i hope you learn that you don’t have to rent space in someone else to feel at home.— billy chapata. (@iambrillyant) December 17, 2018
forgive yourself— Yolin Natalie (@JolienNathalie) December 7, 2018
today
for all the times you couldn’t
before
They are great!
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