Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com
Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.
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And for everyone that read my last post and now has Bohemian Rhapsody looping in their heads, I’m sorry…it’s driving me insane too… 🙁 mamaaaa, i just killed a man… put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he’s dead mamaaaa, life has just begun, and now I’ve gone and thrown it allllll…
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When?
Self-affirming posts just don’t work for me. It’s the equivalent of those mantras that are recommended for people with a poor self-esteem. You know, the ones where you’re supposed to stand in front of the mirror every morning and tell yourself how beautiful you are, or how important you are, or how brilliant you are,…
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clavicola: Someone knit me a scarf made out of their tears 🙁 Wouldn’t you rather want them to weave you a hat made out of stars?
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It’s sad to see how much time we spend trying to decide who’s kaafir and who’s not, which sects are good and which are not, that we fail to notice our own dwindling Imaan. Whenever someone boldly states that so-and-so is kaafir because of doing such and such a thing, then I am immediately reminded…
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No matter how much I try to find normal friends, I always end up polarising towards people that are as screwed up as me. Birds of a feather and all that crap, you know. Even at times when I meet someone that seems to be perfectly normal and well-adjusted, they turn out to be screwed…
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus (via phredosophy) This is surprising to see given how many people I’ve seen quoting Camus, but all of them are in search of the meaning…
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Breathe. (because everything will be okay).
august-is-over: It’s time to breathe every breath with conviction. Like you’ve earned them. The fight you’ve been fighting everyday for as long as you can remember. It seems to never end. And when hope of a finale comes it’s only dampened by the realisation that this particular fight was only a prequel to what is…
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