You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged mental health.
In a potentially seismic move, the National Institute of Mental Health - the world’s biggest mental health research funder, has announced only two weeks before the launch of the DSM-5 diagnostic manual that it will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”. In the announcement, NIMH Director Thomas Insel says the DSM lacks validity and that “patients with mental disorders deserve better”.WOW WOW WOW YESSSSSSSSS
well that was unexpected.
WHAT
“don’t be shy” thanks u cured me
“just chill out” wow whered my anxiety go?
“smile, be happy” depressions finally gone, why did i not think of that?
“ My students at New York University love her work. I look at them and remember she was only 30 when she died. I tell them to talk back to any inner voices they may hear saying mean things about them. I tell them their lives are a treasure to us all. I tell them to take their vitamins.
— Sharon Olds, on Sylvia Plath. (via thebronzemedal)
“ At the end of the day, I’d rather be a faux-crazy lady who makes a world a better place than a crazy man who just wants to force the greater Albuquerque area to acknowledge his genius by cooking a whole bunch of meth.*
Marc Lamont Hill on sagging of pants, black criminaliziation, and the politics of respectability.
mm. my husband. dropping wisdom on you bitches left.and.right.
I’ve been getting a lot of these lately, and I guess I just want you all to know what I think when I read them.
This is beautiful.
One of the most succinct, poignant, hopeful, and understanding ways of describing people fighting their way back from the brink I have ever seen, and all told with a great analogy I hope makes it more understandable to those who haven’t experienced it.
there’s this sort of underlying expectation of people with depression that we have to at least be really deep and introspective and interesting and cool and cultured and talented and artistic and fucked up in a beautiful way
otherwise we’re just nothing
unglamorously mentally ill forever.
my depression is pretty gross and unattractive 99% of the time like today
“ It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, trans. Richard Howard (via proustitute)
