releasing-my-insanity asked: I've been reading the discussions on long comments and I wanted to add that while I make a point to leave long detailed reviews for my fandom friend, I don't usually have the energy to do that for most fics. And even with my friend it might be days before I get a long review done. Short reviews don't mean that I dislike a story, just that I don't have enough energy to write a longer one.
Short reviews don’t mean that I dislike a story, just that I don’t have enough energy to write a longer one.
Exactly. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
And short replies to comments don’t mean I don’t appreciate the comment – I might not have the energy to write a longer one (or the gumption, etc etc).
adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive
My brother was diagnosed with depression years before I was, and because of that he started therapy years before I did.
I still remember when I was a young teen and he was playing a Nirvana song and he stopped it at this one line: “I miss the comfort of being sad”
He told me that when you start to get better, there’s a part of you that misses being sad and that if you start feeling that way you have to be extra extra aware and careful because if you indulge the feeling you’ll go down a self-destructive spiral
And even though that was years and years ago, I think about it all the time. Especially when I’m reading discourse on the idea of getting so attached to mental illness as an identity that you don’t want to improve things because you feel safe in it and don’t know who you are without it
I always think of that line “I miss the comfort of being sad” and my brother’s warning
