the thing about depression is that sometimes you have to parent yourself through it but also if youre going to parent yourself, sometimes you need to rebel against yourself
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its weird having been a sad kid surrounded by sad kids because there are parts of being depressed that i subconsciously shame myself for as being childish. weird mental hangup!
LITERALLY! its wild bc i can talk about fibro or OCD fine without people chimimg in on various fixes, but everyone thinks theyre an expert on depression
…and you have to love the rebel part, too. Which is super hard, as most of us did not witness people being loving when we rebelled. But that’s what we needed.
I have to remind myself daily that just because I’m good enough to talk myself into doing the bad thing doesn’t mean I have to do the bad thing, I can say no to myself even when I’m being really hard to do that to
Unironically this amazing advice, I also struggle with things you’ve touched on in this thread and hadn’t considered rebelling against myself as a form of parenting
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