dinner soon 🥦🍣

I’m walking around with my arms uncovered in public, because it’s hot, but you can see why I generally don’t.
#mentalillness

I've had people come to me offering help, and then I have to fix all their chaos, sometimes while they're being nasty, and/or I'm expected to conform to their ways instead of getting help where I am, and this is when I'm vulnerable
if you're wondering why I live alone.

iced tea in the shade of trees
(Squirrel watched me from the side of a tree.)

💚🐾

It's hot. We'll hit a high of 88f, or 31c, by late afternoon. Good day for movies. Or sleeping. Or both.
Awfully hot temps for April. Thankful as heck for air conditioning. So is Audrey.

May I point out that the only people continuing to perpetuate chemical imbalance in mental illness (& as a way to say any med explanation is bs, just explore inside yourself to overcome suffering) are those who have nothing to offer when best tx available becomes inaccessible.

coffee with the trees

I guarantee you that a large majority of mentally ill people already live with a great deal of self-imposed shame without people being encouraged to publicly pile on more.

Change is really hard, wonderful too. Sometimes I'm so sick, exhausted, down. I don't see it, the world, people, all that. Then there's a moment, nice, kind of like a bit of magic. I notice. The door to the world opens a crack.

I feel change in me. It's new, wild, disconcerting.

Here comes Audrey.

'It is ironic that many people who accuse medicine of presenting an overly reductive and simplistic understanding of mental health problems themselves cannot see beyond an overly reductive and simplistic understanding of the medical model.'

People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another

psychiatrymargins.com/p/people-are-s…

Bright sun has emerged and the temperatures are going way up today.

It’s a bit wet in the woods. I’m tromping around in pj bottoms & crocs like this.

tree at top of parking lot

She’s busy with her friends.