This is a chatting thread for anything related to our mental health. Mental health is still very overlooked in today’s society- people still think it is a taboo thing to talk about because of traditional expectations. So, feel freely to discuss your mental health or helpful mental health tips you have, or any updates about your mental health journey!
Here are some helpful links I collected:
An important note:Please don’t try to diagnose yourself. It is best to seek professional medical advice if you can. However, if you strongly believe that you fit into the criteria of a mental health condition, talk to a doctor if you can.
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It’s about time someone made a thread like this…
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I seriously don’t know what to do rn… I have no freaking clue how, but my ex-bff contacted me last nightI havent talked to them in over a year, and the last time I did was right before [something personal that they caused]. I know i should block them but for some reason I cant convince my self to. They hurt me in too many ways to count and now that they’re back I [somethinged] and now I hate myself for [somethinging] but I don’t know what else to do
Also my dad has been yelling at me a lot lately and for no reason
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I know exactly how u feel! I tend to overanalyse the small stuff, get rlly worried, and then procrastinate
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I’m sorry Iris! Hope you feel better about it, sending you wikiLove!
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Kind of venting here, but someone suggested me to talk and vent to nice people so I’m following their wise advice (and they’re right more often than wrong) ahaha. Just realised I was the kind of person who needed to be constantly doing something to function as a functional human being (thanks, ADHD and anxiety!).
This is a really long and weird story, but I think when I was going through my mini midnight crisis about the effectiveness of me volunteering this thought just popped into my head: Like a good amount of my posts on the main wT thread states, I’ve been dealing with mental health related struggles for about 2-3 years. Just being able to talk to people has been incredibly helpful, and I’m so lucky to have found a supportive community like you guys <3
Back to the weird long ramble, but I’m not good with my emotions and senses. Said person I mentioned at the start also said something along the lines of “wow, it’s like those things are muffled on you?? don’t know how to describe it but it’s not in a bad way I swear.” I’ve been thinking about the whole muffled thing (side effect of ASD: weak sense of taste and physical pain, stong sense of smell and hearing. basically a cat lol), but the muffled thing. I think I can try to get closer to people and my own emotions if I try.
And that leads us back to the volunteering mini-crisis, where I was basically questioning my usefulness as a volunteer and everything for around 20 minutes while listening to Florence + The Machine on loop. (no but seriously she’s amazing) I think that after doing a bunch of questions (lol like 5) this big a*s realisation just hit me: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A PERFECTLY USEFUL PERSON WHO SOMEHOW KNOWS EVERYTHING AND CAN ANSWER ANYTHING. IT’S ENOUGH IF YOUR QUESTION MANAGES TO HELP EVEN ONE PERSON. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SOMEHOW CARRY THE ENTIRE 81,000 WIKIHOW QUESTION BACKLOG. ONE PERSON IS ENOUGH. And that’s where I am now, for the next 5 minutes or so probably. With a new outlook on volunteering that I somehow never figured out over the course of around 4-5 years of doing so because I have one brain cell in my smooth brain. And the big volunteering revelation™ is literally to take things one step at a time. Slowly, reach out to others. Try your best to help, throw a message in a bottle out into the internet void and hope that maybe someday, someone who needs it will find it somehow. Talk to people (about anything
doesn’t have to be a big thing), help and be helped, spend an abusurd amount of time categorising articles. That’s how the numbness goes away.
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Massive TL;DR for my last annoyingly long post: I’m trying. I don’t know if I’m getting better, but I’m trying and holy crap that counts for something.
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Hey you guys! I love taking mental health supports that Pinterest girlies make and I find a lot of self care posts. I think it’s high time I stop gatekeeping and reveal them to you!
Gallery of Mental Health
My fave mental health google form: Mental Health Form
Google form for girls: Form for the girlies <3
The best comfort google form I have ever taken:
a Google form for venting and comforting✨🩷
The best Asmr vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTRZA7tCYI
An awesome meditation thingy:
A 60-second meditation tool to help clear your mind
this is all from Pinterest, so you can simply say not part of Pinterest 🫶🏻
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The pie chart one hit hard ngl
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Bumping this thread…What things do you guys do to calm down after a bad day?
Also, I wanted to bump this thread since @ChocoCat1122
, @WikiLia
, and @Ayame_thestorm
were mentioning anxiety in the wikiTwitter thread.
I’ve had some digestive problems come up (stomach pains in the morning before I even eat and sometimes indigestion), but I have no idea if it’s related to something I’ve ate (if I’ve developed an allergy) or if it’s from chronic anxiety.
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Listening to music, reading, watching YT, going on a bike ride, eating chocolate and trying to murder a pillow (punching it)
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I listen to music while crying it out
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Yes fr music is like free therapy bro, it’s always my go-to
If you’ve had a bad day and you don’t have access to music, I guess doing something you enjoy will calm you down.
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Murdering a pillow is so real
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Video games, writing, music, movies, texting friends, talking to people, reading, card games, learning new things online (obsessed with recipes), going outside, annnnd a lot more!
Might be just normal indigestion? Not an expert again, but in my experience anxiety stomachaches feel different from normal stomachaches. It’s helpful to use a chart like
this one from @ButterflyInTheStars
to understand what you’re feeling at the moment and assess if it’s normal stomachaches or anxiety. You can set pictures as widgets on iPhone, or set this as your phone menu (the one after your lockscreen) background to check it when you think you need to.
Okay I know nothing about your daily schedule, but not eating about an hour before bedtime tends to help along with eating dinner to the point where you are comfortably full. Basically, go to bed on a comfortably full stomach from dinner.I don’t really know enough about the indigestion part to give any advice, so just a friendly reminder that I’m not a professional and you should definitely take advice from an online cat stranger with a grain of salt lol.
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I lowkey feel like you are an expert at this point
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nononono lol, thanks for the compliment I really appreciate it :') But also in all seriousness I’m just a teenager who does a lot of online reading and stuff, so please please please do not take my advice as actual expert advice. If there’s anything a professional says that contradicts one of my points, take the professional’s advice over mine. Also as an online internet person I’m really not equipped to give out serious psychological advice, just tips and stuff. Please don’t view me as an expert (it’s really nice to hear a compliment though), I’m just a teenager who learned all this stuff from trying (trying!!! not successfully, 100%) to deal with her mental health issues lol
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Lol I was just saying that I appreciate that you know a lot to help us out lol
help that thing where my heart beat is going faster is happening rn
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Take a few minutes to take deep breaths and generally relax yourself?
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