I knew a couple of different people who would fabricate drama if they were actually doing well for once. In a good relationship with a supportive partner? Starts talking to their ex who just got out of prison. Job and housing in order? Spends rent money on a $1200 dog. Things quieted down? Starts fights. I donβt need that nonsense anywhere near my life.
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looking after mental health is important.
USians voting Republican be like:
Yeah, this gets applied to things like addiction or poverty, too. βAll you gotta do is change stop doing the thingβ¦β. Sure, politically or about other things itβs probably a choice of willful ignorance. But sometimes not so much.
Yeah, and people will tell themselves "this doesn't apply to me, cause this gets applied to addiction and poverty, and that's problematic. So it probably means I don't have to change either."
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Me scrolling Lemmy again, after my doctor explicitly forbid scrolling.
My hands are attached to my arms, how am I supposed to take them off?!
How I see people who don't follow my exact prescribed advice that I came up with without knowing the situation
Legit. If someone in my life did this I'd believe them when they say they don't know why they don't move it away. Maybe they can't. Mental health issues can often look like a person standing in fire, not moving out of the fire, just letting it consume them as normal folk watch on talking about how they should have just walked into the water.
Yeah, to an outsider it looks like this while to the person it's often like being glued to the spot where the fire is and is fucking hard to get it off
(But be aware that you can get off it, call a firefighter (psychologist) to help you out!)
"Just stop being depressed" as if it's a choice...
That's your interpretation, not the real meaning
Sounds like what you call the "real meaning" is your interpretation
Of course: I made the comic strip, so my interpretation is the right one
Once you publish art it becomes subject to the interpretations of its viewers
Roland Barthes wants to have a word
My interpretation is still the right one. I'm responsible for what I say, and not what others understand.
If that were the case, life would be much simpler. It's not
The usual neuroTs confused by neuroDs.
neuroDeez nuts
There's a word for this in mandarin - Dao Mei (forgive me if I got the spelling wrong). But from what I've been told, it doesn't quite mean "bad luck" which implies you had no control over it; but it means that bad things are happening to you because you put yourself into that position
Spelling is right - it's ει / ει if you wanna look it up
Rake-stepping is the new lingo I'd say
Itβs basically this meme in another format:
Why does Augie burn his hand on the quickie griddle?
"Because then I would have to admit you were right."
A real life picture of Republican voters.
This is like most people lol
In most cases I think it has to do with a large mismatch between human urges, carefully calibrated for a primitive, foraging lifestyle, and modern society.
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THEY DON'T COME OFF! DO YOURS DO THAT?!"
Iβm in this comic and I donβt like it
Same, and same. I must be an emotional masochist or something.
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