“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

• Shrinkage of amygdala
• Risk of developing immune issues, diabetes, and heart diseases in the future
• Increased heart rate
• Increased levels of adrenaline which causes shaking and high blood pressure
• Headaches and/or migraines
• Talking way too fast
• Loosing large chunks of time throughout the day for no reason
• Chronic fatigue
• Sleeping with hands on/around your neck or touching your neck excessively
• Insomnia
• Slower reaction time
• Heart arrhythmias
• Raise in body temperature
• Worsening of PMS symptoms
• No energy
• Overreactive nerves
• Hyper senses
• Auditory processing problems

• Compartmentalizing way too well
• Wonder if you manipulate people to love you/feeling like you are genuinely unlovable
• Feeling unreal
• Too good at adjusting to new circumstances/can make a home in the worst situations and have no problem with it
• The irrational side and rational side of yourself constantly fighting (knowing you are freaking out over nothing but being unable to stop it)
• Hypersensitivity
• Unexplainable feeling of doom/dying early
• A. Lot. Of. Anger. And. Barely. Contained. Rage.
• Good in a crisis, only to fall apart later and/or over little things
• A delayed grief process (mostly due to being unable to regulate your emotions well)
• Basic inability to control emotions (aka light switch emotions)
• Extremely violent intrusive thoughts
• Somatic/emotional flashbacks (unlike PTSD, there is not a visual component to these flashbacks)
• Imagining yourself in horrible situations where you get all the sympathy (side effect of not being loved enough as a child)
• Extreme attachment issues on both sides of the spectrum (isolation and clinging)
• Feels like no one knows you truly/don’t trust anyone/can’t tell people how they feel
• Think is only extremes
• Triggers
• Manic/depressive episodes
• Obsessive need for revenge
• Hypo/Hyper sexualizing yourself
• Mistaking hypervigilance for being an empath
• Associating unrelated things to trauma
• Little to no memory of childhood/time before trauma
• ADD/ADHD
• Other mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, maladaptive daydreaming, age regression, suicidal thoughts, borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorders, somatization disorder, etc.
• Loss of hope/inability to feel hope
• Easily over-stimulated
• Chronic nightmares/night terrors
• Warped sense of self
• Hyperarousal (easily startled)
• Downplaying everything
• Feeling like you are never enough for others/constantly trying to prove that you are (aka overcompensating)
• Panic attacks/anxiety attacks

• Problems with religious beliefs/faith
• Feeling as if there is a gaping hole physically in the center of your chest, often agonizing
• Often imagines a little child hiding within your skin/beside you watching at all times
• Very good with/kind to/understanding of children and strangers
• Imagining scenarios at night to calm yourself enough to fall asleep
• No tight clothes
• Things can’t touch your neck
• People can’t stand behind you
• Rewatching/rereading movies/TV shows/books repeatedly
• Psychoanalyze everyone you meet
• Extremely careless with own life but extremely protective over anyone else’s, especially those you care for
• Grew up way too fast
• Looks for a hero/rescuerer/parental role to fulfill for friends
• Likes sour or spicy food
• Hating competition
• Feeling intense jealousy over those who got help
• Hating intimacy (emotional or physical)
• Drawn towards hard sciences/mental sciences
• Intense need to be loved but hating it/not looking for it
• Hard time communicating
• The profound sense that you are okay with being the villain and you may even strive to be one (and not in the cute ‘I’d love to be Loki way’,, but rather completely fine with betraying/hurting/killing others)
• Sitting on the floor of your shower because you can’t even imagine standing up
• Having a problem with authority, either by hating it and acting out or being terrified of it
• Addictive personality
• Never let yourself stop moving long enough to be in your own head/too scared to allow yourself to think 

• Participate in self care
• Heal your inner child (I do this by doing thing I never did as a child. I jump on my bed. I have dance parties alone in my room. I sneak snacks at midnight. I run with my arms wide and wave them like airplane wings. Whatever your healing looks like, do it)
• Trauma-informed therapy
• Behavioral therapy

• SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-4537
• NAMI Helpline: 1-800-950-6264
• NIMH Helpline: 866-615-6464
• Mental Health America Hotline: text MHA to 741741
• Crisis Text Line: text CONNECT to 741741
• National Suicide Hotline: 988

• Mind Diagnosis
• D'Amore Mental Health

1. She ain’t no games in real life so I take her serious all the time
2. Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS
3. I’m not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, 🙅🏽🙅🏾🙅🏿 Negative.

• when wolf link does a little spin after he sings a song
• the way human link does that thing with the sword & scabbard when he's readying himself for battle or has just beat a boss
• illia's pure undiluted horse girl energy, whether you like her or not
• malo
• the way link's musical theme cuts in seamlessly to the music whenever he's doing damage to bosses
• hyrule field theme
• the mailman being an actual cryptid
• several prolonged shots of link being eye-level with telma's... telma
• gay dads in karariko village
• monkey
• midna facepalming and rolling her eyes when link literally perishes
• malo's dialogue. all of it
• link being viewed as universally handsome but clearly valuing the company of animals over hero worship
• like. he has a picture of him and epona in his house. also a goat
• pumpkin soup snowpeak yeto and yeta true love and comedy that entire portion of that game honestly
• the fact that zant is played off as a totally serious villain but is actually a completely unhinged dance major wearing crocs
• zant killing ganon after being exploded by scary midna and the narrative itself being like "yeah we don't even know what just happened"
• malomart
• the random-ass western shootout with the most perfect music imaginable
• the SAME FRAMING AND MUSIC EXCEPT YOUR ENTIRE GOAL IS TO TALK TO 20 CATS???
• so many cats and dogs
• puppet zelda like that was just cool i gasped do it botw 2 i dare you
• hyrule's lgbt alliance being a secret anti-ganon resistance who genuinely come to link's aid
• i don't think there is a single cishet adult character in this game. maybe the yetis.
• that one character, you know the capitalist baby-man?
• midna and zelda having something going on between them esp in the manga. they will not elaborate and i'm happy to fill in the blanks
• no forced romance between link and zelda. they're coworkers. if you see them in this game and think they're shippable you're not looking at this game independently
• zelda having a sword
• the entire manga even though it's not canon
• goth trans girl and dark academia trans guy it's like a liberal arts college in telma's bar
• agatha's dialogue
• shit i can't forget malo
• OOCCOO