Mental Health
Welcome
This is a safe place to discuss, vent, support, and share information about mental health, illness, and wellness.
Thank you for being here. We appreciate who you are today. Please show respect and empathy when making or replying to posts.
If you need someone to talk to, @therapygary@lemmy.blahaj.zone has kindly given his signal username to talk to: TherapyGary13.12
Rules
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
- No promoting paid services/products.
- Be kind and civil. No bigotry/prejudice either.
- No victim blaming. Nor giving incredibly simplistic solutions (i.e. You have ADHD? Just focus easier.)
- No encouraging suicide, no matter what. This includes telling someone to commit homicide as "dragging them down with you".
- Suicide note posts will be removed, and you will be reached out to in private.
- If you would like advice, mention the country you are in. (We will not assume the US as the default.)
If BRIEF mention of these topics is an important part of your post, please flag your post as NSFW and include a (trigger warning: suicide, self-harm, death, etc.)in the title so that other readers who may feel triggered can avoid it. Please also include a trigger warning on all comments mentioning these topics in a post that was not already tagged as such.
Partner Communities
To partner with our community and be included here, you are free to message the current moderators or comment on our pinned post.
Becoming a Mod
Some moderators are mental health professionals and some are not. All are carefully selected by the moderation team and will be actively monitoring posts and comments. If you are interested in joining the team, you can send a message to @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
view the rest of the comments
I'm sorry you have to go through that.
there's nothing I could say or do that could even remotely assure you. I'll try my best though.
you know how to build a campfire? you start with small straw/sticks and move on to twigs, and so on until you have a raging warm fire. building joy in life was kind of like that for me.
find the joy in the small things. one a day or a week. I remember when I was battling a bad episode of depression the first thing I found joy in was the peace and quiet of my house. kids were gone, wife was gone, and that first sip of coffee hit me just right. it reminded me of my dad, who also struggled with bipolarity. although he wasn't always the best father, I know he loved me in his own fucked up way.
I found new joys the next week and the week after that. eventually over months I found that I was finding joy in larger things and eventually I didn't have to look for the joy anymore, but I still took the time to appreciate the little things in my routines.
so please, find your small joys. could be anything from putting on some fuzzy socks to how the sunlight refracts through the window. it doesn't matter what it is, only that you get something positive out of it.