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Don’t chase happiness.

Many people spend years chasing happiness as if it is a destination they will eventually arrive at. The problem is that constantly checking whether you are happy often makes you feel the opposite. A healthier approach is to focus on meaningful actions, relationships, and growth. When your attention shifts from searching for happiness to building a life that feels meaningful, happiness often appears as a byproduct rather than a goal.

What is one activity or habit that naturally brings you peace without you having to chase it?

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. ~

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What do you often overthink about?

One thing about me is that I’m always thinking about something—whether I want to or not. My mind is like the ending credits of a movie, except the movie never really ends. The credits in my mind feel like a jumbled mess of responsibilities, finances, worries, past relationships and friendships, and things I need to do. But mixed in are also ideas I have, ways I can be creative, and goals I want to achieve.

Can anyone else relate? Do you find yourself overthinking? If so, what topics tend to come up for you?

#Anxiety #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #Agoraphobia #SocialAnxiety #PanicDisorder #PanicAttack #PTSD #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MentalHealth #BipolarDisorder #Depression #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #CheckInWithMe

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What are your favorite activities to do with friends or loved ones?

A great way to strengthen the relationships and bonds you have with the people who are important to you is to engage in fun activities or hobbies together. From watching movies to craft projects, board games, going out to eat, or even tried-and-true conversation, the possibilities are endless!

What are your favorite ways to pass the time with those you love?

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Neurodivergent And Disability Definitions

Neurodivergent And Disability Definitions
Emotional Dysregulation
Difficulty regulating emotional responses, often felt as intense emotions, overwhelm, or trouble calming after distress.
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Emotional dysregulation describes ongoing difficulty regulating emotional responses. Emotions may arrive quickly, feel especially intense, last longer than expected, or be hard to shift once activated.
This experience is common among Autistic and ADHD people, as well as people with trauma histories. It reflects differences in executive functioning, nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and emotional integration — not a lack of effort, maturity, or insight.
Emotional dysregulation can show up as emotional overwhelm, rapid shifts in feeling states, or a need for more time and support to settle after distress. When emotions are high, it can temporarily affect communication, decision-making, and relationships, particularly when there isn’t space to pause and regroup.
Emotional dysregulation isn’t a character flaw. For many people, emotions become easier to manage when the nervous system has more support — things like sensory regulation, predictability, safety, co-regulation, and time to recover. When we take a nervous system view, the focus moves away from what’s “wrong” and toward what kind of support might help.

Double-Empathy Problem
Mutual misunderstanding between neurotypes, rather than a lack of empathy in Autistic people.
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First described by Dr. Damian Milton, the Double Empathy Problem suggests that misunderstandings between Autistic and non-Autistic (allistic) people arise from differences in communication and lived experience, rather than from a lack of empathy.
Milton argued that when people come from different neurological worlds, their ways of sensing, relating, and expressing can diverge enough that both may struggle to understand the other’s perspective.
Because dominant culture often frames Autistic ways of being as the problem, the Double Empathy framework reframes social difficulty as relational. Both sides can encounter barriers, and both are capable of understanding when there is reciprocal space, recognition, and shared language.
In practice, this shifts the focus away from fixing Autistic communication. What matters more is creating environments where different neurotypes can meet with space and clarity, guided by curiosity, mutual adaptation, and neurological humility — without assuming one way of processing is superior.

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How does your health affect your relationships?

Having a mental health condition, chronic illness, and/or disability can affect your life in many different ways, including the relationships you have with the people around you. From work connections, to building and maintaining friendships, familial relationships, or even dating — health can either strengthen or weaken bonds. It can even cause bonds to break.

What have your experiences been like? How does your health play a role?

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Seriously? #CPTSD

So you go around,hoarding, stalking, blackmailing and collecting other peoples past relationships and experiences, in order to manipulate people? You become friends with their past relationships? You direct and manipulate through gathering personal information as leverage? Because your life is that lame? Why? Are you retired or bored? Does your wife actually believe you're saving women and their husbands by friending them? Your pet projects, your orphans, your kids you say you https://save.You do see how desperate this looks? You friended my ex's, just like other's, just like your xwife and current https://wife.Thats messed up ten times more than I ever imagined and they are sad for falling for https://it.She could have a good reason to believe you, but Im sure she's figured you out, she can't be that, dumb or is she? She couldn't find someone else to keep you busy? She had to help you, to embarrass me because she is weak and an enabler?I don't care about her reputation. You did not care for mine and I, owe you nothing. Does she not understand who you really are? Or, is she, just as aweful?A low lying yes girl, who believes you're the catch? Thought https://so.Anyone playing cos play woman, to play another women, is a yes girl, a follower and a weak girl, not strong a https://women.A mean girl, a follower not a https://leader.I can't stand fakes and followers, especially granola wannabe nature brands, who are market level dime a dozen.Yes, I said https://it.Dime a https://dozen.They are a carbon copy of the next yoga guru, saving women one stretch of the imagination at a https://time.Cant market whats a copy! I get it.
I don't care for mean girls disguised as mothers,allies and friends, stretching the truth to fit their strange sense of desperation to get their husband https://off.He needs help, you need help and your daughters, probley need therapy the most.
Get a new hobby. Im not it.

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We never walk alone. #Depression #Anxiety #Fear #Relationships #Hope #MentalHealth #Faith

I am in an Uber heading to the airport. This morning I am flying to The Philippines. Normally I am very excited to go overseas. Today I am not. Yesterday I realised that I am quite anxious about this trip.

I tried to figure out why. It’s not the mess that the Middle East does is. That is a long way from The Philippines. It’s not where we are going. Manila is wonderful. We are also going to Davao which is somewhere the Australian government says we should only go if it’s absolutely necessary because of terrorist activity. The two terrorists who recently killed 15 people in Sydney trained in Davao.

I think it’s the fact that my body is still recovering. I need a crutch. I am still taking strong opioids for pain. And I think it’s lack of control. We are corralled onto a plane. We have to navigate immigration and customs.

This morning I realised what the true issue was. I have been thinking I am doing the trip on my own. My Wife is with me. I will be visiting prisons and other places. However, God is with me. We are not alone. He is already there and is with us now while we head to the airport.

We are never alone.

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭41‬:‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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