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How do you cope with seasonal depression
i moved to california
but before that:
therapy and medication management (always good ideas).
lots of socks/hoodies/blankets + anything to maximize coziness and improve sensory wellbeing. seriously, buy a super soft blanket.
asmr videos
special attention to sleep schedule to maximize daylight.
spent time researching tropical places/playing theoretical beach vacations. digital tropical wallpaper, followed photo-heavy blogs featuring things like travel, flowers, sun, etc, anything to change my mental landscape
cultivated soothing rituals. this can be anything (e.g. lots of people like tea). i personally loved taking long hot showers
big one: kept my room clean and inviting. when the outdoors becomes uncomfortable, it’s extra important to make your indoor environment as welcoming as possible.
made a list of favorite shows/movies/comics/books/etc, stuff i’d seen a dozen times before. when worse came to worse, forced myself to choose something to watch/read. really helped distract me through the bad patches.
force-fed self mellow-but-upbeat soundtracks. the music we listen to has a big effect
found exercises i could do easily indoors for 5-15 min at a time (it turns a few minutes of push-ups here and there are way more doable for me than say, jogging or getting to the gym). also a good way to keep my toes warm during winter.
feel free to add!
now that we’re here and it’s 4am here’s some paintings that make me go absolutely bonkers
In The Kitchen by Helena Janecic, Untitled by Daniel Gerhartz, Compassion by Daniel Gergartz, L’abandon (Les deux amies) by Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec
just a quick note- no trans person has ever said “did you just assume my gender.” trans people are very aware of how their gender and physical appearance differ and that visually one might assume that they are a man/woman when they are actually not. that’s kind of the whole idea of gender dysphoria.
Deepika Padukone, Piku (2015)
the most painful social interactions are when you miscalculate someone’s meme literacy and reference something and the person/group doesn’t get it and u have to half-heartedly explain it knowing FULL well it’s 0% funny if people don’t have the full convoluted context of the joke and u feel the flames of hell start to lick at ur feet as they all give u a pity laugh
Tag urself I’m Found: Gay Dog
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Phaidon, London 2022, 204 pages, 300 illustrations, Hardback, 27 x 20,5 cm, ISBN 9781838665173
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18/06/22
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