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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

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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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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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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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FND

Today was strange.
I was dissociating for 4 hours straights and am still a little foggy.
I was frozen and fell asleep for two hours (with waking again while being frozen).
Then I was frozen in episodes that started and ended while derealising and depersonalising.
It was really strange.
My legs were frozen in the same position for over an hour.
In the end I asked for help from my mom who helped me get up and move again.
By the time I was crying as I couldn’t move on my own or speak to explain myself.
She helped me move up and
Over time movement and feeling came again

Now I am just exhausted.

This time it was triggered by an fried of mine who stayed over and the fear of the clinic.

I realised now that the clinic itself is specialised in my condition called Functional Neurological Disorder (Or older name Conversion Disorder).

That is such a win. Still I’m nervous about all the people and so on.
Hope it will all work out.

Also here’s an website for anyone who‘s interested in the condition.

neurosymptoms.org/en

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Your past may have shaped you, but it doesn’t have the right to limit you.

When you’ve lived through pain, your mind can get stuck replaying old moments.

Old mistakes.

Old losses.

Old identities.

Depression often pulls you backward, convincing you that the past defines you — that what happened then is who you still are now.

But the past only has power when we keep feeding it.

When we carry yesterday’s wounds into today, we block ourselves from healing, from opportunity, from becoming someone new.

Let the past be a chapter, not a prison.

You deserve a life that isn’t decided by old pain, old stories, or old versions of you.

Today isn’t asking you to rewrite everything.

It’s simply asking you to show up.

To breathe.

To take one step forward — no matter how small.

Your future isn’t built from what happened yesterday.

It starts with what you choose right now.

What small choice will you make today that your future self will thank you for?

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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