“As things stand, more people in the Kremlin than in Washington know what Trump said to Putin. It is almost certain that there are readouts and analyses of Trump’s discussions with Putin — but that for now, they are in Russian.”
ok so the other night i had a dream about reading creepypasta and i dreamt that i read the scariest creepypasta EVER and in the dream it seemed so hair-raising but thinking back now it was like
“i signed into xbox live and i had a message from a guy i beat in a game that said ‘i have long feet and i’m gonna get you’”
and then the narrator went to bed and woke up with long feet guy stretching his feet from across the world in through the narrator’s window and into his bed
and i woke up with my heart POUNDING i was so scared Long Feet Man was gonna touch me with his long feet
1. Become aware of how and when you tearing yourself down.
2. Now that you can catch yourself doing it. Offer counters to the negative self talk. A really useful thing I read was to talk to yourself almost the way you would child. Gentle and patient. Even when they fuck up.
3. Take time to celebrate your small accomplishments. You’ve been attacking yourself for every little mistake. Apply that same fervor to the positive things in your life. Did the dishes even though you didn’t want to? Fuck yeah! Got up and took shower? YES!!! You are taking positive steps to feeling better. Celebrate it.
4. Make lists of things you’re good at/ like about yourself. The first time I did this the only two things in my list we’re that I liked my hair and I had good friends. It was start.
5. Don’t beat yourself up if you screw up steps 1-4. It’s counter productive. When I catch myself calling my self stupid for some mistake or other my response now is,“We don’t talk to ourselves like that anymore. What’s something constructive that could actually help solve the problem.”
Most of the time that seems to work. Not always. But more and more Everytime.
Not like women have been telling y'all this since the beginning of time or anything.
I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”
No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.
THAT LAST COMMENT
!!!!!
No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”
My. Fucking. Kidney.
Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!
Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”. I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that. Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do. Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.
jesus. I never thought of it that way.
Every woman rebloging this
My mom said that her cramps were equivalent to when she was 7cm dilated during labor.
My cramps have always been significantly worse than my mom’s. I compare all other pains I have to my period cramps and because most pain doesn’t have me on the floor crying and vomiting I tend to ignore it.
I almost ignored my appendicitis because the pain from that couldn’t hold a candle to my cramps.
Add me to the list of people with uteri who initially ignored a serious medical problem because it was “probably just menstrual cramps” and I “didn’t want to be a bother.” I was also afraid of being made to feel foolish or like I was overreacting, because all my life I’ve been told I’m a hypochondriac whenever I complained about pain or being unwell.
