karadin:

animate-mush:

jdkaplonski:

shoren18:

damnselfly:

quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.

I’m just gonna put it out there that if someone’s freaking about something small, they’re really freaking out about something big that they’re trying to deal with, or something long term that’s been building up, and that little thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.

Needed this today.

People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.

ever heard about the ‘straw that breaks the camel’s back’ this is what we are talking about, the one event or incident that seems small and unimportant, and you don’t know what else that person is carrying.

It is also common in depression to ‘pile on’ making lists of everything that seems to be going wrong in your life, of course that would make you even more stressed and more depressed, so give yourself only one thing at a time, and go one day at a time, or combat it with lists of what’s going right,