Mind Over Mood

26/10/2023

🎶no🎵🙃
(Jk I work my butt off daily)

18/10/2023

Happy early Halloween everybody! Stop confusing mental health professionals! 🎃💀👩🏻‍⚕️🧑🏻‍⚕️🩺

13/10/2023

I’ve been gone for a while, s*t is hitting the fan over here. But…

26/09/2023

Art by me. Please remember, it's not life you want to exit... It's this situation. And that will happen. I've been in that black fog for years at a time... But I'm so glad it didn't swallow me. I'm struggling even now... But i have to remember: there's a better exit.

19/09/2023

Part two incoming… sorry for the lack of posting. I’ve been… well, not so fussed on life, or being alive.

05/09/2023

Happy 30-somethingth to me… You’re never too grown up for sparkles, gummy bears, weapons and bl00d. 😘🎉🎂🥳🎊🎈🎁🔪💋

31/08/2023

Good morning Liverpool 🥰

07/08/2023

It’s another one of the reasons adhd is life endingly frustrating. What are your thoughts? We can’t alarm clock our way out of this one.

02/08/2023

Time blindness is a thing. But it’s not something the world is going to accommodate. We mean well but the thing is, people’s time needs to be respected. Including ours!

31/07/2023

Why do we put a negative spin on doing the right thing? Why do we view taking accountability as “losing”? Or look down upon ourselves when it’s necessary? Or apologizing as a decrease of dignity, when in fact it preserves it? And why, when we are on the receiving end, do we feel like we are better than the person who dares to do these things? Let’s change that. Let’s promote doing the right thing by uplifting those who are brave enough to do so.

26/07/2023

The first one reads “I’m high on nothing, and I dream while I’m awake”… I felt like I could do anything, a super human who needed neither sleep nor food to thrive. And yet when a psychiatrist tried to diagnose me with bipolar disorder, it was a hard “NO”, because the only examples I knew of were two adult men who were unmedicated and had extreme cases. I’d never been to jail, I’d never spent tens of thousands of dollars I didn’t have, I’d never had a problem with drugs or alcohol (despite the fact I was too young to even buy it at the time)… therefore I couldn’t fathom it was me. Let me point something important out: BIPOLAR LOOKS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY ACROSS GENDERS. most illnesses do, but because bipolar is such an overt and intense presentation, it’s especially obvious.

25/07/2023

It’s okay to be okay with yourself.

24/07/2023

After living with adhd for decades, here’s a few things I’ve learned that help me manage it. Yes, I still mess up, but… less often! 🤠 Got questions or tips of your own? Leave a comment!

12/07/2023

10/07/2023

I’ve been in a freeze of anhedonia, feeling unmotivated and lost. I feel it’s time to rebuild myself, because I’ve been making a lot of changes for the better this year… even though it doesn’t feel like it.

01/07/2023

Come onnnnnnn 😩😩😩😩😩

20/06/2023

It’s fine if you can’t handle that, but if you aren’t even going to bother to get to know someone with a disorder first, then I’m afraid the toxicity is coming from your direction my friend. Dislike them if you want, that’s fine, but at least do it for who they are, not what they are.

18/06/2023

Happy whatever tf today is Micheal.

16/06/2023

I’m not gonna hate on myself just because you have problems you’re projecting onto me. 😌

05/06/2023

Art by me. I sit among the mushrooms, tattered and defeated, wondering how I got here. Bipolar is like waking up every morning and eating whatever mushroom says “eat me”, and like Alice wandering around Wonderland, it’s the only food in sight, so I eat it. I have no idea what will happen when I do… maybe something, maybe nothing, but when something happens, it changes my world… or, perhaps it just changes me. Did the house become too small, or did I just grow too big…?

30/05/2023

Can we change this? I Can’t stand the original saying. Of course you can be loved when you’re unable to love yourself, and in what world is saying that supposed to help?? All that being unable to see how awesome you are does is make it hard for you to really believe others when they see it.

27/05/2023

And just like that, I can panic all week, lose most nights’ sleep not wanting to be here, and then turn around and be unapologetically feeling myself. This’s a fun ride. 🎢🫠

27/05/2023

This. This. This.

23/05/2023

Stoicism is currently in development, we have been beta testing it for quite some time and hope it will be released in time for the next quarter. Lol

19/05/2023

“Careful the things you say, children will listen…” - Into The Woods
As someone who grew up around bad examples of bipolar disorder, and people who weren’t fans of it (I don’t blame them, I wasn’t either), I can say it definitely had an impact on my perception of a disorder I would end up having myself. While genetics aren’t the only factor in whether someone develops mental health issues, they absolutely play a huge role in it. It’s easy to demonize the person who may be causing issues in your life or in the lives of your kids when they are mentally unwell, and of course you don’t have to be okay with it and neither do they. It’s important to set those boundaries and honor everyone’s feelings. But just be careful how you go about explaining things, because what applies to their family member may someday apply to them… And they will need hope that all is not lost, that they are still lovable and worthy, and that you still value them.

16/05/2023

Mental health Meme dump

11/05/2023

Most people have a reason to feel extreme feelings. Bipolar is my main reason. Mental health awareness month is about bringing awareness to all sides of mental illness— even those that aren’t pretty. One thing I will say, I’m proud of myself for making this today, I’ve been unable to sleep (Not due to mania…Not sure why at all come to think of it) and my head feels like a Boulder. I’ve been having waves of panic wash over me, luckily I’ve got a pretty good handle on managing that so I haven’t let them wash me away. But right now the more I think about living this way forever, things just getting worse at least physically… the less I wanna do it.

09/05/2023

There are other types of bipolar mood disorders, but today I wanted to focus on these two and the myth that one is “worse” than the other. Besides being wildly invalidating, it shows a lack of insight into what makes these two versions of the disorder what they are. Bipolar looks different on everyone, and everyone’s episodes are unique, including in length and severity. But overall, these are the two profiles of what they tend to look like. I’ve tagged a few friends of mine who I know battle with pretty severe cases of each type (I know a lot who do but they were the first to pop up), and if they’d like to share anything about their experience I encourage them to in order to give more insight to what it’s like. (No pressure ofc guys!)
…Which would you choose if you were forced to?

05/05/2023

I replied "well that's because I am a nice person 🙃".

It was 2020 and I've since moved, but when you read statistics that say 75% of the neurotypical population thinks people like me are mean or d@ngerous, it really shouldn't come as a shock. We are not monsters, we are not bad people. It's mental health awareness month and it's the perfect time to raise awareness -- we are not outside of society, we are a part of it. Maybe it's a part the rest of society doesn't really understand but that doesn't mean we don't belong here like everybody else.

04/05/2023

Stop projecting, depr💀ssion ffs 🙄 month