SJ Longthorne

At our lowest, the actions that can help us can seem unappealing, even repellant. The important thing is that we do them anyway.

It’s completely normal not to want to do the things that will help you. As far as I’m aware, that’s part of the package. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do them. In those moments, trust that you should help yourself even if the idea repulses you. Just do it. Do it anyway.

I need your guidance lmfao I'm very stubborn about myself

Stubborn about not helping yourself?

yeh, bad habit

I don’t think that’s just you. I’d be surprised by anyone who said they found it easy to help themselves, particularly at their lowest. If it were easy, it wouldn’t be such a problem, but there’s literally something inside us that recoils from recovery.

Perhaps, while horrible, there’s actually something familiar and almost comforting about pain which makes it preferable to the unknown that is recovery. Or perhaps it’s a feeling of just punishment or obligation to pain. Perhaps all of those.