Yourdemisefromhell - No

"oh i only have less than 4 hours left for school ive procrastinated for HOURS failure failure" bbg shut up and start now. Are 0 hours better than 3? No? Then start now. You'll get better with everyday, but you have to try. I believe in you, and will support you as much as i can.

these should get their own post actually. toriel my dear toriel

symptom journal quilt by Nicole Jones Studio

Monday | 04/21 | 3:11 p.m.

Mid-Sem update:

Major Papers (P3 & P4) ✅️

2 down! 4 more papers to go.

Emily’s toxic doomed yuri ending with Nicole (in comic form!)

Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I'm not experiencing "burnout", which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.

My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it's going to take a lot more than just a "break" or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I'm a little bit more than just burnt out by this.

Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don't inconvenience them.

We're not burnt out. We're borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.

But we're exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.