sad-lonely-broken:

When you have anxiety, you think that everyone is going to leave you.

Your mind overanalyzes everything. It’s one wrong message. One conversation where you wonder if you said too much. It’s a text unanswered that sends your mind wandering. And a call that goes right to voicemail. It’s a second text to clarify, just hoping they will answer. Even though you know you should have waited.

Anxiety is self-doubt. Anxiety is overthinking. It’s the waiting for people to leave. It’s ruining something before it even begins. It’s goodbye without the word that becomes an expectation. It’s the nights that keep you up tossing and turning. It’s not hearing from someone for a while and thinking they are mad, even though realistically they have no reason to be. It’s an apology you don’t have to say, yet you feel you need to, just to ease your mind.

Anxiety takes a hold of you, it keeps you prisoner in your own mind. It makes you prone to pushing people away when you want them to stay. You don’t want to burden or bother them with your insecurities or good without the word worries, but you just want them to tell you that they won’t go. That they won’t walk away. That they understand.

Because when your mind plays tricks on you and tells you, everyone, you care about will leave you, you don’t want to believe it, but part of you does.

Your mind convinces you that you are too clingy but the truth is that you simply care. Deeply. You care too much and think too little. You love too hard but everything about you is soft. You try and overcompensate just to give them a reason to stay. But what you don’t realize is they are choosing to be here because they want to be. Because you aren’t as bad and intolerable and unlovable as you think you are.

Anxiety is just trying to trick you into believing you are hard to love, hard to be around, hard to keep. But if you look around for just a moment you’ll realize the people who matter haven’t gone anywhere

Don’t listen to it. You are loved

— sad-lonely-broken

foreverscarredteen:

if you’re annoyed or mad at me for whatever reason please just fucking tell me, don’t avoid talking to me or ignore me to prevent yourself from telling me. i don’t care if you think it’ll hurt me, i can promise it won’t hurt as much as my own mind trying to work out what i did wrong.

• someone: it starts at 4 so you should be here by 3:45
• me: *arrives at 3:30 because I have to be early to being early*

• Bae: my water broke
• Me: wtf fix it

oxygeniuss:

buckwildbarrelracer:

seeminglycaptivating:

A little tip for parents with children in school (or for children in school to show their parents)

My mom gave me and my sister two days every semester that she called “mental health days.”

Those were days, that for ANY reason, and without having to tell my mom the reason, we could skip the day of school. We’d just tell her we were taking a mental health day and she’d call the school and let them know we were not coming in. 

#1 This helped keep our grades up by lowering our stress levels. I never got a C in any grade school class. The majority of my classes I received A’s. I also took 4 AP classes and they were not weighted. Trust me, it made a difference.

#2 I never felt the need to skip school. I knew if I ever wanted to or needed to my mom would help me. 

Your kids are young and need time to recover. They need some days where they can do nothing but stay in bed for no reason. They need their own space where their privacy is respected. It will make a huge difference.

Will do this when I have kids

my mom did this and it was helpful aka I graduated high school & I’m still alive!!

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