This post about how therapists help people with suggestions that are just loopholes for mental illness is great. This type of advice would actually really help people on a day to day basis who are dealing with mental illness. Symptom management doesn’t have to look like drudgery. Just do your best and do things the way that make you feel most comfortable:
(via: Geek Girls)
I struggle on rest days because it used to mean I didn’t eat properly because I’d be crashed out in bed… Now I pack a lunch box and a water bottle the night before, usually stuff that doesn’t need to be cold, so I can stay in my room all day and just recover