thebeautifulmind:

“1. Go to a party and stay sober. Listen to the way your drunk classmates talk when they don’t plan to remember tonight when they wake up. Never talk about these experiences, just keep them for yourself. 2. Start driving in one direction on the highway after school one day, pretending like you’re running away. Blast bad pop music and sing along. Stop in the suburbs when your mom calls you to come home, but buy your little brother a cupcake before you turn back around. 3. Kiss your best friend. It doesn’t matter what sexuality or gender you are or they are. It doesn’t matter if it’s a peck or you escalate to tongue. You’ll laugh about it later, but it will always make you smile just for the memory. 4. Smoke a cigarette. Let it burn your throat. Cough, loudly. 5. Take a stand for something you believe in. When half your school laughs at you, take it with pride. Someone agrees, even if they’re too scared to say so. 6. Make enemies. Make the kind of mistakes that cause your life to implode. Lose everyone and everything to these mistakes. Only when you fall will you find out that you can pick yourself back up. 7. Sit on someone’s roof and talk for hours. Forget about dinner and tell your origin stories. Let your guard down while the dog barks below. Talk about god. Listen. 8. Steal Bourbon from your parents’ liquor cabinet and put it in a water bottle beneath your bathroom sink. Spike your tea with it when you think you’ve hit rock bottom. Pour the whole thing down the drain when it’s too strong for you. 9. Become a stereotype. Buy a record player and combat boots. Wear all black. Dye your hair bright blue and get your ear pierced three times. Don’t care when people laugh at you. 10. Make wishes at 11:11. Wear your pajamas backwards in the hopes of a snow day. Look for answers at the bottom of a bottle. Pretend writing things on your arms makes you special. Believe in anything. Believe in everything. Open every book and look around every corner. You’ll never look like this or move like this or think like this again. Enjoy it while it lasts or hate every second. But feel. Feel every damn thing.”

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Depression & Hope

awake-society:

“I have depression. But I prefer to say “I battle” depression instead of “I suffer” with it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.” 

 According to the World Health Organization 300 million people battle with depression globally, while 800,000 commit suicide. Depression is a serious mental disorder that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Society needs to change their outlook on depression. There shouldn’t be any stigma attached to it. 

 Depression symptoms:

 -Poor concentrating / attention 

-Fatigue / Restlessness

 -Feelings of guilt

 -Worthlessness / helplessness 

-Pessimism 

-Insomnia / hypersomnia 

-Irritability -Loss of interest in things once pleasurable

 -Overeating / appetite loss 

-Aches, pains, headaches, or cramps that won’t go away 

-Digestive problems that don’t get better, even with treatment 

-Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” feelings 

-Suicidal thoughts or attempts 

 Depression hotline: 

 -Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

 -National Hopeline Network: 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) 

-National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 

-National Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-800-448-4663

 If you are struggling with it please talk to someone who cares about you. If a loved one reaches out listen to them, you might not understand what they are going through, but your attention means the world. Asking for help doesn’t make you weak, it makes you stronger. 

 I hope my video on my personal experience with depression can help a little 

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awake-society:

Mental Health Support

“Mental Illness Recovery Series” book contains 100 true life stories of people all around the world battling daily with their mental disorders. It’s an inspirational book, that gives rise to the silenced truth of mental illness and the exhausting, but noble journey of recovery.

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Mental disorders 🧠 found in the book 📚 :

🔻Depressive disorders

🔸Anxiety disorders

🔺Bipolar & related disorders

🔸OCD & related disorders

🔻Eating disorders

🔸Schizophrenia spectrum & psychotic disorders

🔺Conduct disorders

🔸Dissociative disorders

🔻neurodevelopmental disorders

🔸personality disorders

Thank you 🌹

📣 STOP THE STIGMA

hplyrikz:

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

— Jenna, Waitress (via hplyrikz)

i-wrotethisforme:

“Remember that you’re strong no matter who tries to hurt you. And remember that you’re smart no matter who tries to prove you wrong. And remember that you’re worth it no matter who tries to bring you down. And most of all, remember that you’re you no matter who tries to change you.”

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