selfcarepropaganda:

emiemipearl:

cartopathy:

fullten:

If you’re in that kind of depression where everything is blurry and days blend into one another, taking a lot of photos of positive things might help. If your pet does something cute, you ate something good, got a high score, you cleaned your room, the weather was nice… I’m not saying this will fix your depression, it’s just a good reminder that you are in fact living regardless of the depression distorting your memory and making your past seem like fog of sadness and nothing else.

i wish someone had told me this a few years ago i don’t remember my late twenties

A super good trick, could be very helpful if you are strugglin with disassociation. A picture with a time stamp on it would give you concrete evidence if there’s something you vaguely remember but aren’t sure if it was real or whatever. I know it’s been helpful for me in the past ??

This is why I don’t throw tantrums at people for instagramming/tweeting about what they had for lunch. Microblogging platforms are another really good way to mark time and to commemorate those little achievements that other people take for granted. Even if all you have to record one day is that you thought of a really awful pun, it all adds up to help you remember that you’re actively existing, even when it doesn’t feel like it.