as far as i can tell, the main theme of Lore on Amazon Prime is that men have literally a l w a y s been stupid
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Increased irritability and/or anger when you don’t know why
Feeling numb or having muted emotions in response to upsetting or exciting situations
Lack of interest or passion, in general, for things you once loved
Inability to concentrate or stay focused
Change in sleep patterns, be it not getting enough sleep, having trouble falling asleep, or sleeping far too much and not feeling rested
Exhaustion overall, even for “no reason”
Missing deadlines for projects or assignments
Withdrawing from social activities
Feeling guilty for missing deadlines or withdrawing from social activities
Needing “the rest” because you’re so exhausted, but feeling worse because you stay in bed or on the couch most of the day
No motivation to actually get up and do basic tasks
Hating yourself for not responding to your friends or to important emails on time, but not being able to force yourself to do it
A passing desire to die or just not exist, but not being full-blown suicidal
Not an exhaustive list by any means. What other ways does depression manifest?
team “i wore this yesterday but i’m going to a different place so it doesn’t matter”
Clean your room (wipe the floors, wipe the dust, vacuum, clean the Windows)
Reorganize/clean your desk, closet.
Shave/wax your legs/armpits and tweeze your eyebrows.
Put on a face mask
Do a pedicure or manicure
Fill your bathtub and just take a long bath
Make yourself an aesthetic notebook (to motivate yourself to lose weight or something like that)
Update your Tumblr(make a new header, change the colour…)
Draw or paint something
If you play an instrument, play all the songs you know 3 times
Draw something on your body with paint or pens
Drink 3 teas
Drink 3 cups of hot water
Drink 1 liter of water
Workout
Go for a walk
Go to the library and take a good book for reading or read there if you can do that
Read 50 pages of some book
Watch 5 youtube videos
Listen to some music (I recommend some lofi music, my favourite is lophee)
Watch some k-pop (all girls there are really skinny it will motivate you)
Watch some vine/meme compilations
Watch some fat acceptance cringe or something like that
Play with some make-up
You still hungry?
And after a while you just stop. You stop watering your plants. You stop watching netflix. You stop reading. You stop replying to your friends as fast as you used to. You stop buying yourself nice things. You stop putting an effort into how you look. You stop taking care of yourself like you used to. You stop sleeping. You stop eating healthy foods. You stop petting your dog. You stop socializing.
You stop with everything. You find yourself sitting in your room for hours on end, without doing a single thing. Days feel like years. And you think you can’t do it for much longer.
I find it fascinating that people who choose not to have children are generally assumed to feel really strongly about not having children (or even to feel really strongly against children, anyone’s children, in general). I am probably not going to have children, not because I REALLY REALLY HATE the idea of having children, but because I don’t really really love it. Out of all the major decisions I will make in my life, this one is the only irreversible one. I can sell a house, quit a job, divorce a spouse, whatever. I cannot unhave a child. I cannot opt out of being a parent once I become a parent. I can’t even take a step back for the sake of self-care or whatever, or else my child will suffer.
So for me, having children is fuck yes or not at all. The default will be to remain childfree. Having children should be an opt-in decision, not an opt-out one. Until/unless I develop really strong feelings about wanting to have children, I won’t have them, even if that means I never end up having them at all.
sign up for the gold package of ADHD today and experience the following moods:
The Loop - opening and closing the same three websites in succession for 15 minutes at a time before realizing that there’s not going to be anything new or worth doing on those websites (my three are Tumblr, Youtube and Wikipedia)
The Ack - seeing you have a new message and, though you have no evidence that it’s anything even remotely noteworthy let alone negative, feel intense dread and procrastinate looking at the message for 30 minutes/5 hours/a week
The Shimmy - changing sitting/laying positions every 5 minutes because god dammit i’m not going to be able to focus on whatever task i need to do if I feel any unwelcome physical sensation
The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle - making a hot beverage for yourself and then putting it down slightly out of reach and then not drinking it until 45 minutes later when it has already gone cold
The Bellwether - scrolling on Tumblr and getting the urge to google something/look up something on Wikipedia, but you keep scrolling and forget what you wanted to look up so you frantically scroll back to the thing that prompted you to think about looking the other (un)related thing up in the first place
The Bop - earnestly insisting that you’re not anxious because the other person sees your leg bouncing and thinks that you’re about to go postal
The Poison Dart - hearing someone say something problematic out loud and freezing because, while you want to correct them gently, you also feel intense dread and RSD that if you even so much as suggest dissent the person will immediately and commensurately stab you to death or snap their fingers and open a trapdoor to hell beneath you
The Ghost Breath - realizing you haven’t texted your friend back/at all/in 3 weeks and thinking “Hmmm, I need to do that” and then you don’t do it and much more time passes by
The Stim Package - eating an entire family-sized bag of chips in one sitting because having something to chew on helped you concentrate, at least a little
The Bullfrog - going to get something that you don’t use often but you know exactly where it is and then it’s not there and you just keep going back to that spot 5 more times before realizing you lost it or it’s somewhere else completely different (like, not even in the same building)
The Morning Mist - regularly forgetting what recent life events actually happened and which ones were from extremely vivid dreams
The Seesaw Rivet - feeling like a wounded child who is about to get in trouble during every interaction you have even as you are entering your mid-to-late-20s and genuinely wondering when that pattern is ever going to stop if ever
The Pull-Apart Muffin - having ADHD and about 3 other diagnoses and wondering what is even what anymore
im calling myself out on this one
“This is the house that built me and I’m gonna burn it down. This is the river I crawled from and I refuse to drown here. And bless the strippers but fuck the men. And bless the berries but fuck the farm. And bless the daughter but fuck the family. What is a home if not the first place you learn to run from? You’ve got to bite the hand that starves you, and in doing so Praise the place that birthed you. Birthed you fucked up. Birthed you ugly, and interesting, and ready to scream.”
— Courtney Love Prays To Oregon, Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)