Chi 🌼

🩺 Registered Nurse. Writer. Mental health advocate.

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

I’m looking to start an NCLEX study group to keep me accountable, and meet other like-minded nurses.

If anyone’s interested in joining please indicate. I’ll provide some study materials and we’ll solve 10-20 questions each day.

[lets heal and recover @recovery_your]

Depression can look like:

• Avoiding mirrors.
• Letting laundry live on the chair.
• Rewatching the same show.
• Wanting to text back but not having the energy.
• Feeling guilty for existing.

It’s not dramatic.
It’s fucking heavy.

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

@veekyss Interested!

[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.

[Leon @MindMatterMoney]

Men, This animation gets me every single day.

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

Terrible advice for someone with anxiety lol. They’ll just never go anywhere 😂

[𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐢. @luvblessingz]

If you don’t feel like going somewhere, don’t go!

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

Always have an emotional support system. Family, close friends, partners.

[theGIRLScare. ng @theGIRLScare]

Girl to girl:

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Sorry to break it to you, but it’s impossible for someone who destroys your mental health to be the love of your life.

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

Overusing clinical terms for average, everyday emotions makes actual disorders harder to take seriously. You don’t have OCD, trust me, please.

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

Oh I have quite a few.

Neurodivergence is not a personality type. Stop romanticizing mental illness in general, it’s not cute, it’s not “quirky.”

Prayer is not a substitute for professional help. At all. Both matter, but the former shouldn’t be used to replace the latter.

[lets heal and recover @recovery_your]

Suicidal thoughts aren’t always “I want to die.”
Sometimes they sound like:
• I can’t carry this anymore.
• I feel disconnected from everything.
• I’m here, but not really living.
• Nothing feels real or safe.
• I’m tired in a way sleep can’t fix.
• I don’t know how to pretend I’m okay.
• I just want the pain to stop.
These aren’t dramatic statements.
They’re distress signals.

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

Avoiding the doctor until something is visibly wrong.

Regular physical/mental checkups are a lot more necessary than we realize, because by the time most people start seeing symptoms, the damage might already be too severe.

[🛸 @nerjiyullahi]

People who work in healthcare, fitness, nutrition, or mental health: what’s one ‘quiet habit’ you see all the time that is secretly wrecking people’s long-term health?

[Chi 🌼 @psychwriterr]

Yess. The key to this is that your hobbies need to be for you, not performative, not posting for validation.

In psychotherapy it’s called behavioral activation, where doing things you love makes you feel better, which makes you do more things. The cycle works.

[Thee Aries @GiftedAsia]

People don’t realize how much hobbies you really love contribute to your self esteem and mental/emotional health. Recreational productivity is gonna hit every time