karabo.

Clinical Psychologist. Mrs D 💍 Boy Mom 🐾

[Mark 15:35 @TinaZinhle]

nothing bores me more than spending girl money on non-girly things like why am buying an adaptor?

[A Black Doltjie @B____D___]

It’s not. It remains an NQF level 9 degree. It literally means you have MASTERED. A subject matter or topic. It’s not remotely close to a bachelors🙏🏾

[Tando @tiiga_m]

She told me on payday they call all the women into a big boardroom and give them a round of applause. So yeah I know, she earns Applause Rands per month 😏

[Keabetswe🌬 @akreana_]

Do you know how unhinged you have to be for the teacher to write that on your PRE-SCHOOL report card ?😭😭😭😭

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

This era is called :

"Because of my Faith, it will happen "

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

The longer I work in psychiatry, the more & more I'm reminded that poverty is one of the most harmful factors (if not the most harmful factor) affecting peoples' mental health.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

It’s hard to accept that some mental health condition are terminal, just like some medical conditions.

We want to assign blame. We want to say they got bad treatment, or were harmed by treatment.

It’s often true. But sometimes, even the best care cannot change the outcome.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

i think one of the healthiest things i've ever learned is that you should allow others to reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. Give people space to become who they are without assuming you know who they are just because you've been friends/family for years.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

oh you’re “brutally honest” but are you ever honest about the good stuff? do you compliment people’s positive traits and behaviors? or do you only open your mouth or fix your fingers to be “honest” when you’ve got something negative on your mind

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

It sounds funny until you realize that is a whole life philosophy in one sentence. You sit there with your giant emotional Stanley cup, refilling it all day, proud of yourself. You drink your 2 liters, 3 liters, you count your bottles like a good kid ticking boxes. On paper, you are doing everything right. And still your tongue feels like paper, your skin looks tired, your head hurts behind the eyes at 16:40, and you are one minor inconvenience away from wanting to lie face down on the floor. You keep thinking the answer is more of the same water.

Nobody tells you that sometimes you are not lacking volume. You are lacking minerals. You are lacking anything with weight.

Electrolytes sound like a gym word, but really they are just proof that the body does not run on purity. It runs on salt and mess and tiny charged things that hold the water in place. Think about how different it feels when you drink a glass of cold orange juice at 09:12 after a bad night of sleep compared to your fourth bottle of plain water at your desk. One hits like “oh, I exist again.” The other just runs straight through you, and twenty minutes later you are in the bathroom wondering why your organs still feel like dry towels.

A lot of people live like that. Drowning in content, in advice, in “healthy habits,” and still emotionally dehydrated. They scroll for three hours consuming wellness tips in bed, wake up at 7, drink water, do their 10 minutes of journaling, take 8000 steps before dinner, and still feel this static emptiness in their chest. They think, weird, maybe I need another habit tracker.

No one explained that habits are just water. Minerals are something else.

Minerals are the things that actually carry charge through your life. The phone call where you finally say what hurt you instead of being “chill” again. The ugly 23:37 breakdown in the shower where you admit you are not “fine, just tired,” you are lonely and scared you wasted three years on the wrong thing. The bowl of pasta you let yourself eat slowly without scrolling while your brain keeps trying to sprint ahead to the next problem and you keep dragging it back to the plate. The real rest day that is not secretly a productivity cosplay.

Of course plain water feels safer. It is neutral. It does not wake anything up. Electrolytes sting a little on the way in. Salt on a cracked lip, sugar in a starved system. Orange juice tastes so sweet after dehydration it almost hurts. It reminds your body of how long you have been ignoring it.

Same with life. You can drink twenty self help books and still be dehydrated if you never put in one real mineral: a boundary, a no, a goodbye, a yes that you actually want, not one that sounds impressive on Instagram. You can go to therapy and carefully avoid saying the one sentence that would actually change your blood pressure. You can talk about burnout like it is a scheduling issue instead of the fact that you do not believe you are allowed to be a human being who stops.

Everyone loves the aesthetic of “clean water.” No one posts “I added salt because my nervous system is fried from 10 years of people pleasing and pretending I’m chill with everything.” But that is what actually fixes things.

Sometimes the reason you feel so tired is not that you are underperforming. It is that everything you pour into yourself is frictionless. It does not cling to you. It does not bind. It slides right through and leaves you pee-clear and soul-empty.

The body tries to tell you. The headache at 17:23 that hits in the supermarket lighting. The way your vision gets grainy when you stand up too fast. The random heart flutters when you lie down, like your chest forgot its script. You drink more water, thinking you are being good, when what you need is to eat actual food, sprinkle some salt, sit down for fifteen minutes without being “useful.”

[Stephanie Winn, LMFT | ROGD Repair @sometherapist]

This is a good explanation of the therapeutic process, for patients.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

Jesus. I promise. It’s Jesus.

[Minister Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi🇿🇦 (parody) @motsoaledistan]

It cannot be that everyone in the world is entitled to free healthcare in South Africa. It’s not sustainable, and it’s senseless.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 https://t.co/8gNUOTDrbP

[Chriselda Zozi Lewis (Babes Wendaba) @Chriseldalewis]

BREAKING

Police have found and seized the wanted VW Polo that was allegedly used in the murder of Wits student #oleratomongale.
The owner of the vehicle has been arrested.
SAPS is looking for these TWO men [SEE IMAGES BELOW] who are believed to be directly linked to the killing.

#sabcnews

[Athlenda Mathe @AthlendaM]

[OLORATO MURDER] Police have traced the VW polo used in Olorato MONGALE’S murder. The vehicle was found with traces of blood inside at a panelbeater workshop in Phoenix, Durban. The owner of vehicle is arrested. We looking for Fezile Ngubane & Philangenkosi Sibongokuhle Makhanya

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

We will surely have difficult times, how we arm ourselves is by acknowledging that so that when they do come, we are not surprised but have the grit to deal with them. We may not know what form it will take, but we’ll know that we are not fragile. We are not without tools. Or as Hemingway put it, “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”

Strength doesn’t come from pretending things are fine. It comes from enduring. From continuing.

The most important thing in these times is to have strong community, and not fall into the trap of wanting to hide from those we love and who in turn, love us.

You’re not going to die, even if parts of you do. Like Jesus, some things may have to die to make room for what comes next. Resurrection, if we can call it that, only follows something that’s ended.

Big things are coming. And more than that, you will make big things happen, as you always have.

[C 💒 @churchofysl]

me and the girls at sunday brunch in 2085

[karabo. @bridgettemogoje]

My husband 😭

[Masechaba C Kobola @mckobola]

I wonder who’s keeping Romans Pizza in business.