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My name is Anna. I'm an eccentric nerd at heart, enjoys reading, lover of horror and science fiction films/novels, taxidermy, and is full of surprises. Cupcakes, coffee, and craft beers are my lovers.
i think tumblr’s idea of boys is utterly misguided at times.
boys are just as deserving of love as girls are. a woman fighting to break down a man’s walls is not “a waste of time”, a woman being concerned of a man’s mental health/feelings is not wrong. i think tumblr constantly spreads the idea that men are not worth women’s time and that their emotions are somehow less valid than women’s, and it’s just not true. at least not in all cases.
good young men who are struggling with mental illness need to know that they deserve happiness and that their feelings matter. if we constantly dismiss men’s emotions and act like they’re not worth our time, we’re just encouraging ideas of toxic masculinity.
1. If you know someone is wrong don’t raise your voice, help them understand you, improve your argument.
2. Do something you love for a living. If you don’t love it, I hope you have the courage to change it. It’s never too late to be who you want to be.
3. Hold on to what you believe and your values, don’t let things get to your head.
4. Let yourself fall in love with people. With their honest moments, the breakdowns and the daydreams.
5. But also don’t let other people force you into a relationship. Relationships won’t always make you happy, they are magical and wonderful, but it’s also amazing to spend time with your friends or just reading a book by yourself.
6. It’s okay to feel lost. Living it’s hard, but we all feel it. Let yourself get lost, in books, music, art, in the small things in life
7. Make sure you have a safe place to go when you need to be alone and don’t feel bad for rejecting someone help, sometimes we just need some time alone.
8. Don’t feel anxious about small things, at the end of the day, they are just that, small and insignificant.
9. Don’t search for the perfect body, learn to love yourself. Each body distributes in its own way, you are special because you are unique.
10. Find someone you can share your dreams and hopes with, not someone you have to give up your dreams for them to accomplish theirs.
Trump and Republicans branded their huge corporate tax cut as a way to make American corporations more profitable so they’d invest in more and better jobs.
But they’re buying back their stock instead. Now that the new corporate tax cut is pumping up profits, buybacks are on track to hit a record $800 billion this year.
For years, corporations have spent
most of their profits on buying back their own shares of stock, instead of
increasing the wages of their employees, whose hard work creates these
profits.
Stock buybacks should be illegal, as they were before 1983.
Stock buybacks are artificial efforts to interfere in the
so-called “free market” to prop up stock prices. Because they create an
artificial demand, they force stock prices above their natural level. With
fewer shares in circulation, each remaining share is worth more.
Buybacks don’t create more or better jobs. Money spent on
buybacks isn’t invested in new equipment, or research and development, or
factories, or wages. It doesn’t build a company. Buybacks don’t grow the
American economy.
So why are buybacks so popular with Corporate CEOs?
Because a bigger and bigger portion of CEO pay has been in
stocks and stock options, rather than cash. So when share prices go up,
executives reap a bonanza. The value of their pay from previous years also
rises – in what amounts to a retroactive (and off the books) pay increase on
top of their already outrageous compensation.
Buybacks were illegal until Ronald Reagan made them legal in
1982, just about the same time wages stopped rising for most Americans. Before
then, a bigger percentage corporate profits went into increasing workers’
wages.
But since corporations were already using their profits for stock
buybacks, there is no reason to believe they’ll use their tax windfall on
anything other than more stock buybacks.
Let’s not compound the error. Make stock buybacks illegal, as
they were before 1982.
I’m very proud of you for waking up today. You are very brave. Existing can be hard sometimes and that’s okay. I’m proud of you even if all you did today was exist. I’m proud of you for existing.
“I think there is a certain age, for women, when you become fearless. It may be a different age for every woman, I don’t know. It’s not that you stop fearing things: I’m still afraid of heights, for example. Or rather, of falling — heights aren’t the problem. But you stop fearing life itself. It’s when you become fearless in that way that you decide to live. Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved — to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.”
Hey guys. I’m glad to be finally posting my “mental breakdown survival guide”. As you know I struggle a lot with mental health, and so I have been through a lot of breakdowns. So many that I actually dropped out of university after 3 weeks in 2016 and had to take the whole year off. Because of this, I’ve made it my mission to help others with mental health issues as much as I can, so you don’t have to go through what I’ve been through.
Anyway, here is my guide. I tried to keep it general, and actually useful. If you have any questions or additions please feel free to add them.
And as ever, if you want to talk to me about studying with mental illness or want to see a post on a specific topic, please feel free to message me.
