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You want some real legitimate advice about your mental health?
Stop being mean to yourself.
Like, when you wanna say mean
shit
about yourself either
internally or externally,
work to learn how to stop that what
you are doing is a form of self-harm
and not a fair
or legitimate judgement on you as a person,
and furthermore is not productive
to your survival or well-being.

Even if you fuck something up,
you can resolve to do better in the future,
you can tell yourself
that you're going to make this a
learning experience,
and even if you've the same mistakes
50 times already,
telling yourself you'll get it right someday if you just keep trying
will always do better than calling yourself an idiot and beating yourself up for not being able to get it right.

Take it from me, a lot of mental health shit is a product of your environment and personal history
and therefore you really don't have the control over it that you need to get by without others' help,
but one thing you can have some control over is whether you're going to be a friend to yourself or just another enemy,
and if you want to survive,
you've gotta strive to be in your own corner as best as you can.

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