Ngl, adult friendships require grace. People are very busy. People are healing. People are growing. People are taking time for self care just like you. Less communication isn't less love. Check in not out.
Currently listening through older patriotic and American folk music, and Civil War anthems are basically;
Confederate Songs: "I miss my underaged wife, our rations sucks, and Take me back home"
Union Songs: "I am on a mission from god to kill Slavers"
Loneliness is not just a feeling now. It is a growth sector. Dating apps, mental health apps, delivery apps, companion AI, streaming platforms. The system breaks social life into isolated consumers, then sells each isolated consumer a subscription to cope.
Untreated trauma WILL turn into dementia and autoimmune disease. The body keeps score. The emotions you suppressed, the stress you normalized, the pain you never processed, it all builds up in your nervous system. And over time, it starts to break you down.
If you’re an anxious person, just do everything for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. ANXIETY FEEDS ON IMPORTANCE. Do not make everything a matter of life and deaťh.
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
True alchemists know you just gotta lean into your inner chaos in order to conjure something new. This is why people stuck in chronic avoidance also suffer for prolonged periods. There is no reward for avoiding yourself.
unfortunately i’m sorry to report that the most effective tools for managing adhd ARE in fact practicing mindfulness and getting off that phone. they were 100% correct and didn’t just make that up 💔
If you are even remotely on the left politically I’m practically begging you to become a foster parent. Majority of my kids who come to me had been placed with evangelical right wing Christian people who did nothing but pile on their traumas
Soviet propaganda actually goes so hard. I have a bunch of old posters around my house that I've purchased at various gun shows. You can see how they won the hearts of the masses. Basically every piece of their propaganda I've seen has spoken to me on such a deep level