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micdotcom:

Carrie Fisher’s final advice column helped another person living with bipolar disorder

  • Multi-talented star Carrie Fisher was, among many other things, an advice columnist for the Guardian.
  •  In her final column before her death on Tuesday, she offered heartfelt advice to a person living with bipolar disorder who asked the actress how she was able to live through the illness.
  • “Trying to deal with my mental illness and meet all of my responsibilities at school, work and home feels like a terrible balancing act,” the advice-seeker, identified as Alex, wrote. “Sometimes, I let everything drop. It feels like only a matter of time until the things that I drop shatter irreparably.”
  • Fisher responded by saying that, by dealing with a bipolar diagnosis at such a young age, Alex was already far ahead of the curve. 
  • Fisher also stressed that Alex needed to find some kind of community of other people living with mental illness. 
  • The actress spoke about her own experiences facing her alcoholism by going to meetings that she didn’t like to attend. She eventually learned that she didn’t have to like them, but she had to go.
  • “My comfort wasn’t the most important thing — my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was,” Fisher wrote. “However long it might seem to take and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.”
  • Fisher said that both she and Alex were facing a “challenging illness,” but there was “no other option than to meet those challenges” and to be an example to others who shared their diagnosis.  
  • “That’s why it’s important to find a community — however small — of other bipolar people to share experiences and find comfort in the similarities,” Fisher said. “You’re ahead of the game. You’re doing more than I did at your age, and that’s courageous.” Read more

angelica-church:

carrie fisher isn’t just princess leia. carrie fisher isn’t just an actress we all admire from a famous series of movies made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. carrie fisher isn’t just another name on the list of shitty things 2016 has done to people i admire.

carrie fisher is a woman who struggled with addiction and mental illness and never sugar coated it – she spoke honestly, openly, about every ugly truth, and made me so much less ashamed of the things i struggle with in my daily life.

carrie fisher is a woman who fought back against body shaming and misogyny, against agesim, who looked at critics and said “yes, i am a woman who has aged, and had children, and struggled with depression and addiction and my body has changed, so you can just shut the fuck up and deal with it”, and it was absolutely beautiful.

carrie fisher is a woman who was placed in the role of “princess” but didn’t conform to the typical hollywood idea of what a princess should be. she’s loud, brash, crass, and unapologetic for being so.

she’s an idol and an inspiration and she’s a woman who saved my life many times just by being who she was and never shying away from it or feeling the need to say sorry. carrie fisher is so much and more and i cannot begin to stomach the thought of 2016 taking her away from me, from her family, from the rest of the world and those of us who love her so dearly.

i love you, space momma. we all do. keep fighting the good fight.

iwillknockyouup:

jonmarion:

livingmytruthx:

puddingafterbreakfast:

Zoom in on her face in the third gif.
She means this.
You are completely irreplaceable.

This went deep man. Look at her face. I would love to know where this came from, what she was talking about. And it’s true. So true. Completely irreplaceable. You are you and there is no better you

Reblogging because I needed to see this message tonight, and something tells me someone else does too.

Reblogging as I think every one of my followers are special and impossible to replace.

Remember that.

shaddy24:

Of note for everyone: the LA Times has gone full collaborator. They’re printing letters that defend the Japanese internment camps, saying that the discussion of them has been too “one sided.” Actual quote from the letter: 
“
Virtually everyone in the U.S. was assigned jobs to help the war effort. The Japanese were assigned the job of staying out of the way and not causing complications.”

They then try to say that having your homes, businesses and personal belongings taken away from you and being forced to live in a camp is better than many of the jobs people were assigned. 

They’ve tried to go back on this and now have a note saying that these letters didn’t meet editorial standard, but that’s just bullshit backstepping. They’re trying to gauge how far they can go without getting called out. Next test will be a little smaller. 

sighborgs:

Hello there! Like it says on the laziest banner ever (listen I’m not gonna spend four hours in photoshop for the banner, gotta grind some lootboxes myself) – this is a Winter Wonderland/Holiday Lootbox giveaway! ‘tis the season and whatnot (..even if I don’t celebrate Christmas myself. Still.) 

so! 

PRIZES 

1ST PLACE – 50 holiday loot boxes! 

2ND PLACE – 24 holiday loot boxes! 

3RD PLACE – 11 holiday loot boxes!

Pretty simple.  

and onto the rules – 

RULES 

– You don’t have to follow me, but, it’d be appreciated. 

– One like, one reblog each. (Psst – there’s no point in reblogging more than once, anyways! Tumblr only ever shows one reblog from you. It doesn’t change your odds.) 

– RNG decides who wins, not me. Don’t be mean to whoever wins if you don’t.

– You have to have your ask or your IMs open so I can contact you should you win. 

– Gotta be willing to give me your email address so I can email you the gift card codes. 

– You have 24 hours to respond to my message, if you don’t, I’ll pick someone else. 

This will be running from December 13th-December 26th.

good luck! 

Please reblog if:

the-space-goat:

•your anxiety has made it difficult for you to voice your opinion

•your anxiety has made it difficult to dress the way you want

•your anxiety has made it difficult to ask for help

•your anxiety has made you constantly worry if you are being annoying and wonder if your friends and family are valid relationships or if they just put up with you because they have to

And please know that you are not fighting this battle alone. You are worth more than your anxiety says. You matter and so does your opinion and your say.
You are awesome

I am in moderately dire need of a hair cut, and it’s not getting cut until Wednesday, which means I am doing the things I sometimes do when I can’t get my hair cut just yet:

Look on Pinterest at a category I like to call “Hair Cuts I Would Love to Try, But Probably Could Not Get a Job With in This Area Because of Gender Norm Bullshit.” 😐

sniperct:

ladyilena:

fiddlekid:

synthshark:

shydecidueye:

bloodcaste:

calliotp:

queerblackandproud:

My placement on the Bem Sex Role Inventory.

yeah

i thought id be a LITTLE more feminine but yeah basically

Your score for masculinity was 123.
Your score for femininity was 119.

:Þ

My score for masculinity was 108, and my score for femininity was 107.

Pretty accurate I’d say!


  • Your score for masculinity was 98.
  • Your score for femininity was 112.

    • Your scores are plotted below (horizontal axis is femininity, vertical axis is masculinity).

  • Your score for masculinity was 105.
  • Your score for femininity was 96.

    • Your scores are plotted below (horizontal axis is femininity, vertical axis is masculinity).