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pandamilo:fakegeekpettyprincex:the-adhd-society:ahaleni:christiangothdotcom:hundondestiny:japanesebonustrack:queereyegifs:x“i can’t do simple hygiene bc im depressed”that’s easy babe! just do simple hygiene Y’all always have to wallow in your misery instead of considering maybe, just maybe, the encouragement people like this give is just telling people to do one, easy thing instead of worrying about a whole routine. Can’t make yourself shower? That’s fine, just brush your teeth. Don’t have the energy to do your hair? Okay, just brush your teeth. Making 1 small change that can start improving your mood leads to other small changes. When I couldn’t make myself shower I would make sure I changed underwear every day. And then I started using baby wipes to keep myself fresh. And then I worked my way back to trying to take showers every day. My record might not be perfect but I’m getting better. It’s really unhealthy to keep the mindset that anyone who isn’t miserable and suffering under their mental illness or emotional problems doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Maybe they’ve just grown to learn how to love and care for themselves in spite of what they’re going through. I don’t know what any of you people think professional help looks like, but when you walk in and say “i’m too depressed to do anything” they don’t just nod and say “well you’re broken forever i guess”. they don’t say “here take this pill and it’ll fix everything”. they work with you one step at a time and explain to you that you CAN in fact do simple things even though you’re depressed. it isn’t easy, but it’s not impossible, it just happens in small steps, but it isn’t getting any easier when you react to every instance of someone trying to help by refusing to listen. Notice too how he picked the one thing you absolutely DO need to doliving without a bath, washing your hair, doing skincare etc you can do without major health complications as a resultBut as somebody who rotted a lot of their teeth out when I hit a really bad depressive episode and didn’t brush my teeth for weeks at a time i had A LOT of cavities filled bc of it (I think 21 in the end) I really really appreciate that this is the one thing he says for you to try to dothese days we have me using prescription toothpaste to repair my enamel. and even now I’m bad abt brushing as much as I should. so I got cheap sports mouth guards and floss then I squirt toothpaste in them and let them sit as long as I can stand it. And it works.Forget the hair washing, forget the shower, forget makeup and skincare and shit. Try to brush your teeth. Floss if you can make yourself.I hate brushing my teeth. I realized it was the toothpaste. So i switched to capsule ones. (Not depression but adhd related) also, Jvc has openly spoke about his issues with depression and mental health in the past. Honestly, I wasn’t able to do simple day to day hygiene. But about 7 months ago I decided to just brush my teeth everyday and after a month shower every day and after a month of that brush my teeth twice a day and shower as well. And now even when I feel like I’m dying and absolutely cannot go on, I will still brush my teeth twice a day and have a shower. Taking it one step at a time does help. Simple habits will concrete themselves if you give them time to let them. Brushing your teeth is a small but huge step in the right direction.I’m not sure about anyone else but when I was a kid they sung this song and it was like “You brush your teethCh ch ch ch, ch ch ch ch…”For me, since music usually helped pull me out of a depression rut (when I let it) I found singing the tune in my head while I brushed, helped me do it. -- source link
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