contrary to what most of us seem to believe, affirmations don’t work. At least not in the way they are popular on tumblr.
“You are beautiful/worthy/good enough” only works an affirmation if you already believe it. For the rest of us who don’t believe it, it insults our own intelligence. It’s an obvious lie to ourselves, yet we feel obliged to feel empowered by this, cuz everyone else is, and look how many reblogs it got.
However, affirmations do work if you tell yourself things that you do believe. You might not believe you are “good enough” because all you did all day long was sitting in your room feeling depressed. Telling yourself then how “wonderful and worthy” you are when it’s so clearly at odds with how you feel about yourself won’t work. It will feel like a lie cuz you can’t believe it (yet). Instead find affirmations you do believe: “I managed to feed my pet, I am acting responsible even though I feel horrible.” “I chatted with my friends online and they tried to cheer me up because they value me as a friend.” “I was too tired to cook, but I still managed to find something to eat, I am making an effort to care for myself and succeed.”
This is proof, undeniable proof.
Yes I know, depending on what kind of lies your depression/anxiety is trying to sell you, some of these statements work better than others. But these are just examples. Find affirmations you do believe and repeat them whenever you feel you don’t live up to your own expectations.
Imagine hating black people and being so blinded by patriotism
Didn’t some old bastard burn up his nikes while he was still wearing em and end up in the emergency room with third degree burns and bits of rubber grafted to his feet
Friendly reminder that Canada’s railway was built by Chinese immigrants who not only were abused but were payed slave wages. No textpost can properly describe the pain and horror our government caused for the sake of profit.
Not to mention once it was done they imposed a head tax to make it more difficult for them to bring their families over so they would leave after providing cheap labour. Eventually there was a total ban. Chinese immigration policies in Canada were some of the most notoriously discriminatory policies in Canadian history specifically because we brought a lot of them over for labour then wanted them all to leave
“voltron walked so bubbline could run” you morons voltron pulled out its own gun at the starting line, shot itself in the foot and proceeded to tell all of its fans to shut up and that ITS WAR, PEOPLE DIE, EVEN THE GAYS while bubbline has been riding on a motorcycle for 8 goddamn years popping wheelies and jumping over buses and shit
Korrasami fired the starting gun, rupphire sprinted to the finish, bubbline kept a steady pace and it took a while but damn if it didn’t get there, voltron tripped at the starting line and then whined about how they should rerun the race because “it was the audiences fault they tripped.”
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