things that have improved things for me recently:
- Immediately deleting the crime emails we get at work
- Unfollowing people I felt obligated to follow who were just endlessly critical and never seemed to enjoy anything
- Not blindly reading every post on Tumblr dashboard - save time, just fucking skip it if it isn’t immediately relevant, you don’t need to read about people bitching about fandom details you don’t even care about the basics of
- Cutting down significantly on miserable social justice news and just blocking some associated tags - i have a constant stream of horror in my own head, i can’t healthily afford to have every world horror beamed in too
- ~therapist~
- Sugar reduction
- Chest binders, even though I still feel like I have more chest than will ever be contained and it is difficult to find the ‘right’ configuring of tissue that strikes balance of looking decent, not triggering body panic, and staying put.
- HappyLight
- “The Introvert Advantage” audiobook - listen, this book reads like someone followed me for 30 years and then reported on my behavior. Every breath I’ve ever taken seems documented here, I’m Astonished??
- “The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A Fuck” audiobook - this and the above are like My New Bedrock. If you do not have audible and would like to be sent either of these as a free book, let me the fuck know, I will share!
- Audiobooks in general. Keep me from marinating in The Bad Thoughts at night, drown out coworkers during the day, teach me about plagues and ancient religion.
- Evaluating what and how I’d actually like to be celebrating, versus what I’m forced to
- Noticing that while I have shows that I do enjoy, some of them are having a negative effect on my brain meat. Keeping my distance from crime shows and documentaries almost all of the time, no matter how much I enjoy Olivia Benson or Spencer Reed.
- On the other hand, identifying media that makes me really happy and just Enjoying it without allowing The Discourse in to ruin something that brings me joy without harm. This mostly means I can’t follow their tags on Tumblr, but it’s okay if it preserves a joy for me.
