mentally ill
Description
Click on the disorder for a link to the description; click on the color for a link to the tag. If you don't see your illness or disorder listed, feel free to tell us about it and make submissions, and we'll add it to our blog :) Make sure to tell us if you don't want credit, or just submit anonymously.
Acrophobia = bittersweet shimmer
Antisocial Personality Disorder = chartreuse yellow
Attention Deficit Disorder = lime green
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder = light green
Autism Spectrum Disorders = garnet
Avoidant Personality Disorder = lavender
Body Dysmorphic Disorder = dark green
Body Integrity Identity Disorder = banana
Borderline Personality Disorder = sea green
Conduct Disorder = antique fuchsia
Dependent Personality Disorder = baby blue
Dissociative Disorders = turquoise
General Mental Illness = black
Histrionic Personality Disorder = dark purple
Maladaptive Daydreaming = apple green
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder = magenta
Panic Disorder = pastel yellow
Paranoid Personality Disorder = brown
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder = grey
Schizotypal Personality Disorder = peach
Selective Mutism = burnt orange
Links
aliasss
If you’re looking for a sign not to cut,
this is it.If you’re looking for a sign not to starve,
this is it.If you’re looking for a sign not to kill yourself, this is it.
If you’re looking for a sign not to hurt yourself in any way,
that’s what you’re reading.I love you, and you deserve to live and be happy. Please do so.
Old Post/Activity…thing…?
I remember a little while ago (months ago, actually…) you had a bunch of activities for feeling better. The one I remember in particular was a link to an activity where you put glitter and liquid in a jar, and when you were feeling stressed you shook it up and watched it to calm down. Well, I was thinking earlier and realised that I really wanted to try it, but then I came on here and had no idea how to find it… If you still have the link, please could I have it?
Cheers, Lexie Xxx
P.S., Thanks for running this blog, I can’t tell you how many times it has saved me over the past year and a half :) Xxx
The glitter post is here. You can also look at our other tips for recovery. -Mandy
Happy 2013 :) May it be a year of recovery and love. —C
Hey guys :) It’s not decorated yet, but this is my “good things” bottle. My friend and I are doing this project - you get a jar/bottle/whatever sort of container you want and decorate it (or leave it the way it is if you prefer). Then, for 2013, any time something good happens (no matter how big or small), you write it down and put it in your container. On New Year’s Eve next year, you take all of them out and read them. Then you can do it again for 2014 and 2015 and so on.
Here, many of us live with issues and illnesses that make life seem really awful sometimes. This project can help us to focus on the good things that happen instead :) Just try it out; you never know what might help.
—C
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Recovery Tip
Hey guys, I recently just read the Perks of Being a Wallflower(amazing, I highly suggest you read it, be prepared to cry) and in the book the main character, Charlie, would write down good things that happened that made him happy on a piece of paper and put it in a jar. He would continue to do this every time something good happened. And then if he started to feel bad, or really upset, he would open the jar and read all of the good things that happened to him that week and it gave him hope. It’s a good idea
The butterfly symbolises recovery from self harm as it ties in to the the butterfly project which is where someone or you draw a butterfly where you cut and you have to leave it there until it fades and if you cut over it then you killed the butterfly :) It can work for anything but that's what it originally derives from xx
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