Thank you for being so vulnerable with us, reading your truth has made me feel much less isolated in these feelings, i hope the world begins to brighter for you again soon
There is such a lack of charity and grace in so many of the institutions that (and, it has to be said, some of the people who) work in mental health!
I remember in C. S. Lewis’s ‘Screwtape Letters’ there is a moment where the senior Duke of Hell Screwtape boasts to his nephew Wormwood about how he can get humans to enter such a depressive state that they avoid doing anything holy not through engaging with what they enjoy but by doing nothing at all.
When I feel the weight of pressing tasks and the beginnings of mental distress, I now try and take the time to engage in something I enjoy and try earnestly to do so in a guilt-free way. This is often enough to break the paralysing cycle of guilt and inaction and enable me to get on with what I ought to do.
I'm glad to hear that you had something to eat today, and I'm looking forward to the podcast!
You say you can’t write but you wrote THIS.
Glad you’re still here -- this is such a clear capture of what so many of us have felt when we’ve been where you are
Thank you for being so vulnerable with us, reading your truth has made me feel much less isolated in these feelings, i hope the world begins to brighter for you again soon
girl, same (somewhat). prayers for you <3
There is such a lack of charity and grace in so many of the institutions that (and, it has to be said, some of the people who) work in mental health!
I remember in C. S. Lewis’s ‘Screwtape Letters’ there is a moment where the senior Duke of Hell Screwtape boasts to his nephew Wormwood about how he can get humans to enter such a depressive state that they avoid doing anything holy not through engaging with what they enjoy but by doing nothing at all.
When I feel the weight of pressing tasks and the beginnings of mental distress, I now try and take the time to engage in something I enjoy and try earnestly to do so in a guilt-free way. This is often enough to break the paralysing cycle of guilt and inaction and enable me to get on with what I ought to do.
I'm glad to hear that you had something to eat today, and I'm looking forward to the podcast!
Radiant!