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ec2121.bsky.social
She/her. ND. A-Spec. Former theatre director/actor/stage manager. Currently working in healthcare. I talk about chronic illness, mental illness, trauma, & therapy. Also: Dogs! Music! Podcasts! Song lyrics! Pygmy hippos! Featuring: Rants & run-on sentences
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When I started talking as a kid, I inexplicably had a Southern accent. I was born in Michigan & had never been to the American south. I'm fairly confident that this is the only interesting fact about me 🤷‍♀️

I wish I knew if these cynical & jaded feelings were going to last forever because if they are, I would be making different choices in my life right now...

So many times you are told to “reach out for help” and are met with total silence. Yet when someone loses their life to a mental illness everyone just repeats the “reach out" platitudes but never actually changes anything.

"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

I talked to the QAA boys about the MAHA Institute, what's going on with ACIP, and whether germ theory is real according to our literal HHS secretary. Always delightful to chat with them: open.spotify.com/episode/3ZtB...

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

Make a dark, fucked up joke or bring up a random niche thing that I'm currently into in front of a cute boy. If he doesn't walk away 👍

Our trauma conditioning wants us thoroughly convinced we "can't" handle basic tasks of living-- & it will try, effortfully, to make us forget or discount every time we've successfully navigated a tough moment or every tool we've ever used to survive. Don't let it. Remember.

Lately, the way I feel is like someone playing Scenes from a Hat on Whose Line is it Anyway... How do I feel today? Sad, horny, excited to use my new shampoo...

I grew up with a father who didn't like or care about me. He was verbally & emotionally abusive for my entire life. I also never had anyone who stepped up & fulfilled a surrogate father role in his place. Father's Day is always difficult & depressing for me. If it is for you too, you're not alone 🫂

Posting sexually explicit content/random dick pics with trending hashtags so that people will randomly come across them is not funny, it's fucking disgusting. It's also triggering to some people who have experienced sexual abuse or assault. I know you know this & that's what's so fucked up about it

If a father hurts his daughter, she doesn’t have daddy issues, he does.

I hope the actor who played Daniel in Talk to Me knew ahead of time that he was going to have to open mouth kiss a dog & have his foot licked by 2 separate humans

Me launching into my thesis on how something like grunge should be popular currently, but it isn't because we've created a culture where ugly & dissonant are not marketable on a massive scale 🎧

Artist: @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social

My friend is trying to give a carrot to a baby opossum. Wtf is this night 🤣

River is protecting me from my bff's neighbors

I'm having the Friday night that I've needed for months: hanging out with my bff, eating pizza & wings, & finally watching M3GAN

I love that my bff's shuffle just jumped to an instrumental version of Still Hurting from The Last Five Years

Bluesky is only an echo chamber if this is the only platform that you're on, you don't get your news from any other sources, & you don't interact with any other humans on the planet. Since this isn't true, let's all stop talking about this dumb shit already

Me: Fuck A Star is Born. It tries to glamorize abusive relationships, stalking, substance use disorders, & suicide Also me (every single time Shallow comes on): TELL ME SOMETHING BOY

🎧 I didn't choose this town I dream of getting out There's just one who could make me stay All my days

CW Body dysmorphia Of all the things my brain lies about, my body dysmorphia is the worst & cruelest. It's difficult to explain what looking at yourself in the mirror & knowing that your brain is lying but not being able to tell it to STFU because you truly believe what it is saying feels like

I woke up with this stuck in my head. Happy Friday! 🎧

I'm going to die alone in a cave or some shit because I'm an asshole & other people refuse to admit that there's a possibility that they're wrong 🤷‍♀️

It's too early in the day to deal with supposed liberals who shame people with alcohol use disorder. It's still not ok just because it's someone that you hate. Fuck fascism & fuck you, too

I've just been simmering since 2015

My BFRBs have been very bad for the past week. I have no other commentary on this issue. I simply wanted to say it out loud because they make me feel ugly & crazy

Yesterday, I listened to the Maintenance Phase episode about Marianne Williamson & now Spotify is recommending a bunch of her books 🤣 NO 😑

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It bothers me that so many people are going with the 'Brian Wilson was a troubled reclusive weirdo genius' narrative instead of the actual reality that he struggled for most of his life with mental illness. You don't tarnish his memory or his legacy by telling the truth. You only create more stigma.

I've been re-listening to season 1 of Unsafe Spaces & I just love Josh Hallmark. So few people can effectively present pathos without being heavy-handed or schmaltzy. Josh, you're a great podcast host.

Throwback to the time in-between theatre & healthcare where I worked at the mall & sold sex toys

I'm tired of conversations about mental health that ignore the impact of surviving a world where healthcare can bankrupt you, wages can't cover rent, and climate change threatens your future. Individual solutions can't fix collective problems.

a classic paperback

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: all antidepressants are not bad just because one person took one once & had an adverse reaction. I say this with 100% certainty: I would not still be here today if I had not been prescribed meds for my depression as a teenager.