Past me:
I'll strip my bed linen, so when I get home I'm motivated to change it! Yeah, this'll be a great idea!
Current me:
...you hateful motherfucker.
Western society has a complicated history with mental health. Many people have been demonized, cast aside, and worse, when they didn’t meet artificial, unrealistic, standards for mental health. 1/2
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Standard CBT fails AuDHD brains.
"Challenging thoughts" won't fix a tapped-out nervous system.
These aren't bad mindsets. Your nervous system is signaling distress. Check your environment and dopamine first.
TFW you wonder what normal people eat for supper. And then try to remember what you eat for supper.
Or maybe supper is an illusion.
A friendship that only lasts for a few years isn’t necessarily a “failed friendship”. It could’ve been a friendship that was good for a few years and then you drifted in different directions. That doesn’t invalidate those several years of friendship, it just means that it didn’t last forever. 1/3
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