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What quote, affirmation, reminder, or message do you want to carry with you this month?

Happy November, Mighties! ☀️

We’ve completed another Mighty month and are starting a new one today. What encouraging, uplifting, or important message do you want to remind yourself of as the days go by? What affirmation can you practice each week, or what favorite quote can you draw inspiration from?

Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks wants to remind herself that she can prioritize her needs whenever necessary. She doesn’t need a reason to put herself first—she is important too.

What words can you carry with you? 💌

#MightyMinute #CheckInWithMe #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Disability #RareDisease #MentalHealth #CheerMeOn #Fibromyalgia #BipolarDisorder #Depression #Anxiety #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Migraine #AutismSpectrumDisorder

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What's on your 2024 bucket list?

What’s adventure without bringing out the trusty bucket list 📋✍️? (If you’re not familiar with the term, it means a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime.)

But for today’s purposes, let’s stick to 2024.

On the top of Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks bucket list for the remainder of this year is going to some new museums, creative workshops, and social groups. She really loves learning and experiencing new things when she can!

#52SmallThings #CheckInWithMe #Selfcare #MentalHealth #Disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RareDisease #Anxiety #Depression #CheerMeOn #DistractMe

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Rough time and loneliness

I come back here after a long time, but I feel sadder than ever. I've been doing psychotherapy for a year now, but talking about my illness and my emotions is devastating me. I have always had a very bad relationship with my illness and since it influences my whole life, I have many aspects to resolve and face. Furthermore, I have never talked to anyone about my illness, it's hard for me to talk about it even with my therapist and it took me a long time to open up. I often remain silent with her and I withdraw into myself, even if not intentionally. My illness has absorbed me completely, it has stolen my identity and my happiness and I feel a sense of emptiness that I cannot fill. I feel so sad, discouraged and alone, I don't know how to move on. Sometimes I feel like I'm even worse off than before, when I used to bury all these things inside me, hiding them even from myself. My therapist also convinced me to do a medical check-up after a long time, but I've always had bad experiences with doctors and I'm terrified. I know that sooner or later I would have to face my illness and all the monsters inside me, but sometimes I feel like I'm fighting with something bigger than me, which takes my breath away and I feel overwhelmed. If anyone has been through something similar, I'd love to hear your experience and get some advice! Thank you💞#ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue #EhlersDanlosSociety #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #CheckInWithMe #Loneliness #Depression #Anxiety #Disability #DistractMe #RareDisease #MentalHealth #InsideTheMighty #ChronicPain #SocialAnxiety #Grief #MightyTogether #MyCondition #SocialAnxiety

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If you were a tourist in your own city for a day, what would you do?

Let’s put our adventure caps on, Mighties, and become tourists for the day! 🤠

If you were visiting your own city or town for the first time and wanted to visit an attraction, restaurant, or engage in an activity you’ve never done before — where would you go and what would you do?

#52SmallThings #CheckInWithMe #Selfcare #MentalHealth #Disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RareDisease #Anxiety #Depression

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31/10/2024

Loneliness

Making connections with others is challenging even though the world is overpopulated, as a person who was born with hemophilia (not sure what to talk about with others most of the time). Should I talk about sports? for sure not for me. Should I talk about what intelligence people like to discuss? My academics are not that good, and I dislike being considered introverted kind of thing (Not sure what this generation talking about - As for me I just want to say it or doing it). Should I talk about my feelings? Forget it!.

As someone who used to be very quiet, the method that probably works is to act strangely, although it might create confusion in your personality for others to react. Those reactions didn't make myself feel comfortable—I tried other things to make it work. However, I notice that it just makes things more difficult. To be truthful with myself, by telling others what is happening in my life, people will define it the other way around. In the beginning, I wasn't aware of psychological problems within myself, but I do feel those difficulties, that sadness, that difference with others, suicidal thought and self-harm, which I usually just let be quiet, and the advice from others was usually tradition in a sense based on religion. The worst things were aggression and abusement. Nobody is talking about it among the people within my surroundings about those uncomfortable feelings. At the stage, in my view, they were just in denial and ignorance.

" Just a quick note: I think this is enough for a while. "

#MightyTogether #MentalHealth #RareDisease #Hemophilia #Loneliness

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