Rare Disease

We’ll be exploring the theme of 🌟dreams🌟 for this week’s self-care challenge, Mighties!

To start us off, let’s reflect about what we often daydream about. Perhaps it’s a place you want to travel to, an experience you want to have, or even something you want to accomplish or fulfill in your lifetime.

Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks often finds herself daydreaming about the experiences she wants to have (like making new friends!) or planning fun events with her family.

What about you?

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Mighties, let’s give ourselves an end-of-the-week round of applause because we, in fact, deserve it . 👏👏👏

@sparklywartanks says her compliment to herself is that she did awesome getting through the week and should be super proud of herself. ☺️💌💪

⭐ Bonus: If you’re up to it, give someone else a compliment in the comments below as well!

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#Autism #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie

A one-hour meeting rarely costs you just one hour.

There’s the time you spend anticipating it.

The disruption to whatever you were working on beforehand.

And the time afterwards when part of your mind is still stuck on what was just discussed.

This is one reason a calendar packed with meetings can leave you feeling busy all day while making sustained, focused work surprisingly difficult.

In today’s video, I look at the idea of attention residue and share a few simple ways to reduce the mental cost of moving in and out of meetings throughout the day.

Sometimes protecting your focus isn’t about finding more time.

It’s about being more intentional with the time that’s already in your calendar.

Is there one meeting on your calendar this week that could be shorter, combined, or handled another way?

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. ~

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Just an update because it's so fascinating when you see the flower structure really taking shape. Just a couple more weeks and it will bloom at night.#MentalHealth #MuscularDystrophy #RareDisease #Fibromyalgia #Dystonia

PSA: There is no "right" way to react to a compliment. Depending on what we’ve been through, we won’t all feel, react, or respond to praise in the same ways; and it’s totally valid to have positive, negative, or neutral feelings and reactions around them!

What feelings come up for you when someone tosses a compliment your way?

Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks says she sometimes gets confused or doesn’t know how to react or feel, but other times compliments make her feel confident and great.

#52SmallThings #CheckInWithMe #Selfcare #MentalHealth #Disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RareDisease #Anxiety #Depression
#Autism #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie

When we struggle to concentrate, our first instinct is often to blame ourselves.

We tell ourselves to try harder, be more disciplined, or stop getting distracted.

But sometimes the problem isn’t your motivation.

It’s everything around you competing for your attention.

Your phone. Notifications. Open browser tabs. Conversations nearby. People moving around you.

Individually, these distractions seem small. But when your brain has to keep resisting them throughout the day, staying focused becomes much harder than it needs to be.

In today’s video, I look at how small changes to your environment can make it easier to protect your attention without relying entirely on willpower.

What’s the biggest distraction in your own work environment?

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

Multitasking can feel productive because you’re constantly doing something.

But being busy across several tasks at once isn’t necessarily the same as making meaningful progress.

Every time your attention jumps from one type of work to another, your brain has to reorient itself to the new task.

Do that repeatedly throughout the day and even familiar work can start to feel more mentally demanding than it needs to.

In today’s video, I look at why multitasking often works against us and share a simple way to organize your work so your brain has fewer reasons to constantly change gears.

What’s the task you’re most likely to interrupt with “just a quick check” of something else?

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