#OCDame

My biggest fear is being too much.

Oh, cats, how the internet loves you.

I’ve been mentally ill pretty much my whole entire life, and it isn’t something I see going away any time soon. I don’t see that as an inherently bad thing.

I have a lot of anxiety about not doing enough. Not doing enough at work, at school, around the house, to help save the world from the creeping tendrils of authoritarian nationalism… the list goes on.

Showing up to occupy physical space isn’t the only way to care about the world, so why do we seem to think it is?

Book therapy is not a new concept, though its recent emergence in more mainstream counseling practices and treatment programs has made it something of a trendy topic for think pieces and the like.

Mental illness is hard. Being a person is hard. Don’t try to do it alone.