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i don't think you are wrong that diagnosing ppl with anxiety and adhd and depression is lucrative, but that analysis is difficult for me to swallow wholeheartedly, as someone who has chronic depression that makes it hard for me to function at the level im expected to. it's still a disability

it is totally a disability but the ways that  “the level you are expected to function” at in society purposefully leaves your emotional needs unfulfilled I think is the main reason depression is so widespread. like the circumstances of capitalism in tandem with a biological predisposition will take you tf out but a lot of people don’t have predispositions to these conditions and still develop them and framing their fear, sadness and distraction as individual illnesses to be combatted through spending money is valuable to several industries. like its a disorder if it “impedes your daily function” but everyone’s daily function is shaped by the cruel pointlessness in the first place. they should be seen as logical reactive states that reflect societal failure. It’s just weird to me to see a diagnosis of depression, anxiety or adhd rn still being framed first and foremost as an individual chemical deficiency when sadness/anxiety/lack of focus or motivation are completely natural responses to what we’re all going through. it would be weird for the majority of people to respond to this situation with immediate hope or drive. just because something’s wrong with you doesn’t mean something’s wrong with you 

irresponsible adhd top tip #???

sleep with the curtains open because you can turn off six hundred alarms but you can't turn off the sun without effort

“The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it then you make it worse because you project onto it all kinds of bogies and threats which don’t exist in it at all.

Whenever you meet a ghost, don’t run away. Because the ghost will capture the substance of your fear and materialise itself out of your own substance. It will kill you eventually because it will take over all your own vitality. 

So, then, whenever confronted with a ghost walk straight into it. And it will disappear.”

— Alan Watts

Distances. #pascalcampion

I know this is a repost, but I was looking through my phone and saw this and now I just want to share this with everyone.

Dark Academia for Brown People

 Most people, when they think of dark academia is books (that’s the whole point) and ancient languages such as Latin or Ancient Greek. I’m here to tell you that you all are SLEEPING on brown culture. Love that is conveyed in the languages of Persian and Urdu (my native language) crosses borders. Sure, Shakespeare and Sappho wrote great pieces of literature but the stories and poems of Rumi, Manto, Hafez and Iqbal have a special place in my heart. 

Some of my favourites are:- (all are translated)

Sit at my grave with wine and a minstrel in a trance, so your smell will raise me from the dead.

HAFEZ

My lover’s sadness lit a fire in my heart that burned my chest, there was a fire in his house that burned the nest.

HAFEZ

O the day turned night, what a shame, a gazelle of kindness a lion became, my partner and lover grew tired of my words and prayers too.

RUMI

These are my personal favourites. I can always make a longer post if you all want.

Female poets deserve a whole other post.

As someone who goes to an English-Medium school, we are always taught to converse in English, see the language as a part of yourself but deny a place to Urdu. As I grow older, I have come to appreciate my identity and so should all my fellow brown people. Take pride in your mother tongue.

Dreamscaping