Sourced From ‘real Depression Project’ On Instagram.

Self Reminders

“I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

"I don't answer work-related phone calls, texts, emails, etc. outside of work hours. Whatever it is can wait until the next time I'm at work."

"I'm setting a timer. When the timer goes off, it's time to stop playing that video game, because otherwise I know I won't get anything else done today."

"I will cook for myself, with what I have in the fridge, so that I don't order out. I spent way too much last month on takeout."

"I will not let myself doomscroll all day long."

"When Chicken Little posts about how the sky is falling, I will take a minute to fact-check before I panic. And it may be in my best interests to unfollow or mute Chicken Little."

"I will unfollow those thinspo and fitspo accounts that trigger my body-image issues."

"I will make myself take a shower, and I will figure out what makes showering hard for me, so I can make it easier. I can sit or lie down, for example."

"This weekend is for resting. Not going out, not "catching up" on whatever I didn't get to during the week, just resting."

“If it gets awkward, let it be awkward. That awkwardness is something they created. You don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay when you are not feeling okay so that they can feel better about themselves.”

— Jennifer Peepas

truths I’ve learned at 25

1) you are your own best friend. start treating yourself like it. at the end of the days it’s YOU who will fall asleep with yourself. YOU who will drive yourself to work and back. be kind to yourself. learn how to be alone with yourself.

2) you have to learn how to be authentic to yourself. by this I mean you have to learn what makes your butt wiggle and go after it. no motivation, no ambition is a disease. find something that lights you up inside and work for it.

3) if you’re a people pleaser, you will spend the rest of your life making others comfortable at your own expense. stop it. if you catch yourself trying to make others comfortable at your own comfort, KNOCK IT OFF!!!

4) not making a choice IS a choice. you’ll stay forever frozen where you are if you’re too scared to make any change. if you’re so scared to step on the wrong path it keeps you from stepping ANYWHERE, nothing changes if nothing changes. you quite literally cannot figure out what your destined for if you refuse to try anything.

5) if you struggle with discipline, don’t think of it as ‘discipline’. think of it as devotion to yourself. if you promise yourself something, STAND on it! be there for yourself by showing yourself integrity.