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The world’s opinions change every day. Your value doesn’t.

So much of your energy gets spent trying to earn someone else’s approval.
You shape your choices, your words, even your dreams around how others might perceive them.

But stop for a moment and ask yourself:
What difference does their approval or disapproval truly make to who you are?

Their opinions shift like the wind and they only see you through the lens of their own fears, expectations, and insecurities. None of that changes your worth.

The peace you’re looking for begins the moment you stop trying to be understood by everyone, and instead, understand yourself.

You don’t need permission to be who you already are.

How much of your life has been shaped by trying to please others?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

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This mindset is secretly keeping you stuck.

We wait for the perfect moment — the right mood, the right day, the right version of ourselves.
But that moment never comes.

The truth is, progress doesn’t wait for the perfect time — it creates it.
Start now, and let your action shape the world around you.

What’s something you’ve been waiting to start? 👇

If you want to learn more about this, check out my video by clicking on one of the links below.

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Letting go isn’t weakness — it’s an act of courage.

It’s hard to turn the page when you know someone won’t be in the next chapter.

Whether it’s a friend, a partner, or even a version of yourself you once loved... letting go hurts.

There’s grief in acceptance. There’s pain in moving forward.

And sometimes the hardest part isn’t losing someone… it’s realizing life doesn’t pause for our hearts to catch up.

But the story must go on.

Not because you’re supposed to “get over it,” but because you still deserve to grow, to heal, to discover who you are without what you thought you’d always have.

Loss shapes you, but it doesn’t end you.

You get to keep writing.

You get to become someone even stronger, even deeper, even more alive than before.

Turn the page when you're ready.

Not because the past didn’t matter…

but because you do.

Who or what are you learning to release so you can move forward?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

www.instagram.com/thomas_of_copenhagen

www.tiktok.com/@thomas_of_copenhagen

~ Thanks to all. Thanks for all. ~

#MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #dissociativedisorders #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ADHD #Fibromyalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #PTSD #Cancer #RareDisease #Disability #Autism #Diabetes #EatingDisorders #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RheumatoidArthritis #Suicide #MightyTogether

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What Is Dissociation?

What Is Dissociation
Dissociation is a disconnection from one's thoughts, memories, feelings, or sense of identity. It often occurs as a coping mechanism for stress or trauma and it exists on a spectrum, from everyday experiences like "highway hypnosis" to more severe cases like dissociative disorders which can cause severe memory loss, feelings of unreality, or distinct identities. Thankfully, there are treatments that can help people overcome this problem such as grounding techniques, therapy, and medications.

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If you think you're failing, watch this.

Most people mistake repeated setbacks for weakness, but if you’re still trying, you are not defeated.


You’re learning. You’re rebuilding. You’re becoming stronger than the version of you who started.

Healing isn’t a straight line.


Trying again is strength.


Keep going, your future self is already grateful for you.

What’s one thing you’ve learned from starting over? 👇

If you want to learn more about this, check out my video by clicking on one of the links below.

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Stop attacking yourself for how you feel.

Most people don’t just struggle with emotions; they struggle with judging themselves for having them.

Sad? You shame yourself.

Anxious? You call yourself weak.

Numb? You think you’re broken.

But healing starts when you stop fighting your inner world.

You are not your feelings, you’re the space they move through.

Let thoughts rise and fall.

Let emotions come and go.

No judgment. Just noticing.

That’s how you teach your mind safety again.

That’s how you begin to heal.

Can you give one emotion today five seconds of space without judging it? Tell me which one you will try.

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

www.instagram.com/thomas_of_copenhagen

www.tiktok.com/@thomas_of_copenhagen

~ Thanks to all. Thanks for all. ~

#MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #dissociativedisorders #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ADHD #Fibromyalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #PTSD #Cancer #RareDisease #Disability #Autism #Diabetes #EatingDisorders #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RheumatoidArthritis #Suicide #MightyTogether

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Stop trying to ‘be happy.’ Do this instead.

No more vague goals. Choose one thing depression is taking from you and work backward into daily steps.

Comment your specific goal and the first tiny step on your ladder. I’ll help you refine it.

If you want to learn more about this, check out my video by clicking on one of the links below.

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~ Thanks to all. Thanks for all. ~

#MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #dissociativedisorders #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ADHD #Fibromyalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #PTSD #Cancer #RareDisease #Disability #Autism #Diabetes #EatingDisorders #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RheumatoidArthritis #Suicide #MightyTogether

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Your pain didn’t make you weak; it made you deeper, kinder, and more real.

Pain changes you.

Not in the way people think, not by breaking you, but by deepening you.

If you hadn’t gone through what you went through, you wouldn’t feel as deeply.

You wouldn’t understand struggle the way you do.

You wouldn’t have the empathy, the humility, or the compassion you carry now.

Yes, suffering hurts.

But it also shapes the parts of you that are wise, gentle, and real.

Most people move through life untouched, never questioning, never growing.

Not you.

You were cracked open and that crack is where your strength and humanity entered.

You didn’t come out of your pain empty.

You came out with depth.

And that is something only survivors have.

What is one thing your struggle has taught you about life or about yourself?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

www.instagram.com/thomas_of_copenhagen

www.tiktok.com/@thomas_of_copenhagen

~ Thanks to all. Thanks for all. ~

#MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #dissociativedisorders #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ADHD #Fibromyalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #PTSD #Cancer #RareDisease #Disability #Autism #Diabetes #EatingDisorders #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RheumatoidArthritis #Suicide #MightyTogether

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Meet Brian (my FND)

Meet Brian.

He’s the oppossum that personifies my FND (Functional Neurological Disorder).
He‘s the reason I freeze when I feel threatened.
He only wants to help us survive.
But he doesn’t realise, that he isn’t threatened by a wild fox but only my thoughts…
He can’t control it. It’s a reflex called tonic Immobility (in opossums), for humans it’s the evolutionary freeze response.
He’s not faking it or ”playing dead“.
When he’s frozen, his ability to feel pain is reduced, he’s stiff and completly paralyzed.
(Exactly what happens to me.)
But it’s only temporary, movement always comes back.
The freezing just lasts a few minutes, sometimes hours.

#MentalHealth #Depression #MajorDepressiveDisorder #Catatonia #DissociationDisorders #dissociativedisorders #FND #CPTSD

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