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Are You Dissociating?

Dissociating is one of the most common responses to abuse and trauma. It involves feeling numb, detached or unreal and (while it happens to everyone once in a while) is experienced more frequently and severely in survivors. Dissociating people vary widely in symptoms and may experience any or all of the things from the following list.

You may be dissociating if you:

  • find yourself staring at one spot, not thinking anything
  • feel completely numb
  • feel like you’re not really in your body, like you’re watching yourself in a movie.
  • feel suddenly lightheaded or dizzy
  • lose the plot of the show or conversation you were focused on
  • feel as if you’re not quite real, like you’re in a dream
  • feel like you’re floating 
  • suddenly feel like you’re not a part of the world around you
  • feel detached and far away from other people, who may seem mechanical or unreal to you
  • are very startled when someone/something gets your attention
  • completely forget what you were thinking just a moment ago
  • suddenly cover your face or react as if you’re about to be hurt for no reason
  • can’t remember important information about yourself, like your age or where you live
  • find yourself rocking back and forth
  • become very focused on a small or trivial object or event
  • find that voices, sounds or writing seem far away and you sometimes have trouble understanding them.
  • feel as if you’ve just experienced a flashback (perhaps rapidly) but you can’t remember anything about it.
  • perceive your body as foreign or not belonging to you

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Get to know the signs so you can stay safe during a dissociative episode.

For further reading, here’s a masterpost on the topic of dissociation and ways to cope and ground yourself.

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It may take you five, ten, or a thousand steps forward. There may be many curves and bumps upon the road. However, your heart burns brighter than all else. Your passion shines through all barriers that stand in your way.

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If you’re not feeling okay today, here’s a virtual garden to heal your heart:

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Just because it isn’t happening right now doesn’t mean it never will

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Apps To Kill Time On

Keep seeing some posts circulating about popular websites and wanted to make a version for apps.

These are apps I’m way too addicted to. Am I missing any?

P.S. I’m on an iPhone so these are iPhone apps, but probably have an Android version too.

Edit: Sorry for all the time I’ve taken away from your life

  • Commaful - popular fanfiction, story, and poetry community 👑
  • Bettr - the reason my friends are jealous of my Insta
  • Sweatcoin - get paid to walk
  • Spellbound - addictive horror 👻 and romance stories
  • Helix Jump - legit the most addicting game on my phone
  • Calm - Award-winning app for meditation and sleeping better
  • Tenkyu - tilt your phone and watch the relaxing magic happen
  • Slime Road - bet you can’t hit the bullseye ⚾️
  • Hempire - become a plant mogul
  • Go Escape - FREEDOM!
  • Dune! - Ride the sand dunes like a baller!! so much fun
  • Go Fish - win trophies by catching hella fish
  • Hotspot Shield - free proxy/VPN to bypass school filters
  • Betternet - free VPN like Hotspot, try both and see which you prefer
  • Terrarium - build the ultimate garden empire
  • Golf Orbit - ever played golf on mars?
  • Police Pursuit - show off your driving skills and escape the cops
  • Ball Blast - Just shoot the balls. Simple right? ;)
  • Sling Drift - beep beep - level 70 is insane 🚗
  • Dodgeball Duel - fast paced dodgeball game!
  • 1Q - get paid to answer simple questions
  • Grass Cut - cutting the grass is surprisingly satisfying
  • Crowd City - Become the popular kid in town by running around 
  • Bee Factory - become a honey tycoon
  • Wind Rider - fly through a city in a wing suit
  • Hoop Smash - tap to smash!
  • Spill it - drop balls and break glass
  • Fire Balls - shoot balls at obstacles. gets pretty hard
  • Paper - can you conquer all the territory and win?
  • Two Dots - a fun puzzle game. easy time killer
  • Planet Bomber - let’s nuke some planets
  • Ice Racing - race down a mountain at record speeds
  • Splashy - bounce the ball accurately to survive. requires focus
  • Snakes Vs. Blocks - even more fun than the original snake hehe
  • Twenty48 Solitaire - best toilet game
  • Knock Balls - shoot down blocks with a canon - surprisingly relaxing
  • Wishbone - fun game for comparing stuff like hair, celebs, sports
  • Hole - fuck up a city muahaha
  • Dosh - get paid to shop
  • Sweatcoin - get paid to walk
  • Yarn - stories that are seriously creepy af

You’re welcome 😉

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to “newbies” in the ana community:

this is gonna be a long one but if the title applies to you, i IMPLORE you to read the whole thing. if it doesn’t, please reblog. you might save someone from this fucking nightmare.

i found a diary entry on the day that i decided to go on tumblr and search up “thinspo”. i was feeling awful about my body for some time but never really thought about calories or eating less or anything.

i wrote (verbatim): “i don’t want to have an eating disorder or anything, i just want to lose 10lbs”

not even a month later, it was like nothing could stop me from reaching my goal. i kept telling myself i wasn’t in too deep. i ate 500 cals a day and no more. i exercised 300 cals away.

now, the only thing i want is that blissful ignorance. not even thinking twice about my body. not caring what i ate. understanding the boundaries of healthy eating. not feeling faint and dizzy when standing up.

I WISH THAT I HAD SEEN A POST TELLING ME THAT IF YOURE LOOKING AT THINSPO “just to motivate you,” THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A PROBLEM AND THE START OF A CYCLE YOU WILL REGRET EVER BEGINNING AS SOON AS YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER YOUR ADDICTION TO STARVING. at this time in my life i would listen to NOBODY and NO POST could stop me from slowly crawling into the arms of my developing eating disorder. BUT IM BEGGING YOU, IF YOU ARE BEGINNING THIS STRUGGLE, GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL HAVE CONTROL. you see all these posts telling you that over 1,000 calories is disgusting and so on, DO NOT LISTEN. PLEASE! you have no idea how quickly this shit can get in your head. no matter what your intentions for going on the ana tags are, LEAVE THEM NOW IF YOU STILL CAN. LEAVE AND DONT LOOK BACK. OR ELSE YOU WILL END UP DISORDER RIDDEN AND HATING YOURSELF LIKE ME, because once you’ve been here long enough, it doesn’t matter if you hit your UGW or you’re still at your sw; you will always always always see yourself as fat. that is a promise. and it’s disgusting.

this is a dirty, horrible disease that teaches you to hate yourself. it perpetuates symptoms of anxiety and depression and causes thoughts and feelings that you never believed possible in yourself. it destroys your identity, your relationships, you family life, your grades, your ambitions, and your health. if you have a choice not to fall into it, DONT FUCKING DO IT. don’t fucking do it for the love of god.