mental health, impostor syndrome

"the key to getting over imposter syndrome is to know everyone else is an imposter too. tell yourself you deserve a stake in the scam they're all running"

society, guilt, gaslight, capitalism

"thinking or how capitalism replaced "we are all sinful and unworthy of paradise and we must repent and serve god our whole life because of it"

with "we are all lazy and unworthy of basic necessities and we must scrape by and be productive our whole life because of it"
"

Louder, for the people in the back

lgbt, labels, society

"i think its actually cool and great not to have any especially specific denoscriptors for your gender and/or orientation. just do whatever you want. yeehaw."

trauma, mental health

"your daily reminder that traumatised brains are literally physically different to a normal brain. repeated trauma and abuse has a severe, long term effect"

abuse, trauma, self compassion

"surviving your abuser didnt make you a better person"

growth, healing, socialization, boundaries

"a little secret from a therapist: emotionally immature people will not respond well to your boundaries [...] your job is to mantain your boundaries despite"

body, adhd, neurodivergency

"the stages of hunger while nd are"

mental health, masking, socialization, invisible problems, chronic illness, neurodivergency

"i wonder what i should wear today...
[...]
i dont even need thee mask anymore, so i destroy them over and over again
but somehow, they just come right back on"

lgbt, discrimination

"wow its almost like the oversexualisation of queerness is one of the reasons why asexuals, non-binary folks and aromantics are not seen as queer enough to be part of the community"

[edit: the pictured text should be read as sarcasm]

body

"reminder that you have the right to alter your body until you feel at home in it! whether thats clothes, makeup, haircuts, or more permanent things like piercings, tattoos, hormones, and surgeries! its your flesh vessel and you are the only one who should get to design it"

invisible problems, chronic illness, mental health, socialization

"people can be so quiet about their pain, that you forget they are hurting. that is why it is so important to always be kind"

growth, healing, identity

"we all have a bag. we all pack differently. some of us are traveling light. some of us are secret hoarders who've never parted with a memory in our lives. i think we are all called to figure out how to carry our bag to the best of our ability, how to unpack it, and how to face the mess. i think part of growing up is learning how to sit down the floor with all your things and figuring out what to take with you and what to leave behind"

unscheduled message:
PSA: there is an ongoing scam in telegram where a channel apparently sends users a direct message

channels can not send direct messages. if you receive a message from this or any other channel, assume that it is a scam

easily identifiable by their antinatural greetings, example given "hello patriot"

if you see it happen, either report it, or dont interact with it altogether

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additionally, other ongoing telegram scam is a friend sending you a request for help out of the blue, saying they need you to interact with a support bot to unlock their account. if you interact with said fake support bot, you may lose access to your telegram account

socialization, lgbt

"here's a hot freaking take guys but nobody gets to tell anybody else how they experience themselves. somebody has a gender you dont understand? tough. thats how stuff works sometimes. i dont understand french but the language still exists"

self compassion, trauma, mental health

"does anyone else get a strong sense of guilt and shame from receiving *positive* attention?

yes! i took a seminar on shame once where the trainer told us that compliments often trigger shame in people who have experienced developmental trauma because compliments are discordant with our internal sense of self, causing us to feel as though we have committed deceit"