Short Version - it's a list of things to do instead of ~~doing dumb shit~~ making life altering-ly bad decisions.

I typed this up real quick in reply to a question I saw elsewhere on Lemmy.

Why?

1. Your mental health just generally sucks lately
2. You're waiting on an appointment with a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, or other treatment program that is days, weeks, or even months away and you need to make it there in one piece.
3. If you get dragged to the ER for ~~doing dumb shit~~ making bad / harmful decisions, you want something to show the ER psychiatrist so they're less likely to admit you to the psych ward (I work in one. I try, and if you need it you need it, but they pretty much all suck).
4. You wanna start a trend among your friend / social group of thinking about these things ahead of time instead of right before or during the ~~dumb shit~~ life altering-ly bad decisions.

Also a cool upside: you can make this all on your own and never have to show anyone. You can print it off and write on it and stuff it under your pillow, you can take a picture of it and burn it, you could just write the entire thing out in a password-protected note. This is for you, and while it can help to share the plan with your loved ones, you don't actually have to show it to anyone!

Here's the SAMHSA template but if you don't like it there's plenty of different variations around on the internet or you can just make your own.

Components:

1. Warning Signs: especially the less obvious ones you might not think about consciously, sleeping too much or too little, eating too much or too little, forgetting to shower, etc.
2. Things you can do on your own: can be self-care activities like watching a favorite movie or having an at-home "spa day," or making sure to handle a responsibility that might make things worse if you miss it like making a doctors appointment if you already have one or checking on your finances.
3. People or places to go for safety: This could be a family or friend's house, or if you don't have a safe home environment it could be something like the nearby waffle house. It can be helpful to pick somewhere where there's people to check on you, but it could also be a place of solitude like a hiking trail. Just try to consider what is actually safest for you, if you have a tendency to get into trouble when you isolate, plan to avoid that.
4. People you can call: usually a friend or family member but it could also be a mentor or life coach or a trusted spiritual leader. I would put the person most likely to answer the phone for you at 3am near the top, then the next most likely et cetera.
5. Crisis resources: these are the emergency "noting else worked" resources. A lot of places have local options, and there are a lot of specialized hotlines for minority and under-served populations such as LGBT, PoC, and veterans. If you can't find any local ones or don't like / trust the ones you find, Here's Wikipedia's List

If you found this helpful and are interested in a similar but more in-depth concept (and especially if you have a longer / more complicated mental health history), I highly recommend WRAP Planning. Again it's a plan you make for yourself and that you don't even need to share with anyone else if you don't want to:

• SAMHSA Guide
• Fill-In Workbook Again, there's multiple versions floating around the internet, and you don't even have to use all of it. Mine is four typed pages (two when printed front & back).
• When you're filling out the list of things to do to stay well it can help to look at SAMHSAs guide to free support groups There's often better, more local options, I just give this one to patients as a cheat sheet to fill in some easy stuff

Hope this helps!

I was briefly working on a super basic website / guide to mental health concepts for people who can't afford / access therapy if anybody wants to collab (my biggest issue was lowering the reading level enough, it can be hard for me to remember which concepts will be new to someone who hasn't been working in the field for years).

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35248221

Text Extracted from the image:

74. Erotic spell to attract a woman (Yale 1791 [second text]) STEPHEN EMMEL 158
75. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (Berlin 8314) MARVIN MEYER 159
76. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (Berlin 8325) MARVIN MEYER 160
77. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (Heidelberg Kopt. 518) DAVID FRANKFURTER 161
78. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (London Hay 10376) DAVID FRANKFURTER 164
79. Spells for sex and business (London Hay 10414) DAVID FRANKFURTER 166
80. Spell for a man to obtain a male lover (Ashmolean Museum 1981.940) DAVID FRANKFURTER 177

85 - 87. Three sexual curses to leave a man impotent and protect a woman from sexual advances (Chicago Oriental Institute 13767; Heidelberg Kopt. 682; Strasbourg Coptic Manuscript 135) MARVIN MEYER 178

CHAPTER 7 Curses

These are from an archeology textbook about ancient Christian Ritual Magic. I skipped some because these are my favorites so far. Also I can't get over the transition from the spells for horny men to the spells about women trying to get rid of the horny men (although I'm a little miffed that they stuffed them all into one chapter when the horny men each got their own individual ones). Honestly though most of the positive things I gain from reading ancient spiritual texts is just the reassurance that humanity hasn't fundamentally changed. My mother always acted like older times were simpler and purer. No, no they were not.

Bonus Mixed Amazon Reviews:

tim zidik - One Star Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2014 - Verified Purchase weak not effective

gresmy - a true magical book Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2013 - Verified Purchase wonderfull, educational. I personnaly like the ritual with psentebeth. It worked for me and the several different names of Isis just wow

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35248221

Text Extracted from the image:

74. Erotic spell to attract a woman (Yale 1791 [second text]) STEPHEN EMMEL 158
75. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (Berlin 8314) MARVIN MEYER 159
76. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (Berlin 8325) MARVIN MEYER 160
77. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (Heidelberg Kopt. 518) DAVID FRANKFURTER 161
78. Another erotic spell to attract a woman (London Hay 10376) DAVID FRANKFURTER 164
79. Spells for sex and business (London Hay 10414) DAVID FRANKFURTER 166
80. Spell for a man to obtain a male lover (Ashmolean Museum 1981.940) DAVID FRANKFURTER 177

85 - 87. Three sexual curses to leave a man impotent and protect a woman from sexual advances (Chicago Oriental Institute 13767; Heidelberg Kopt. 682; Strasbourg Coptic Manuscript 135) MARVIN MEYER 178

CHAPTER 7 Curses

These are from an archeology textbook about ancient Christian Ritual Magic. I skipped some because these are my favorites so far. Also I can't get over the transition from the spells for horny men to the spells about women trying to get rid of the horny men (although I'm a little miffed that they stuffed them all into one chapter when the horny men each got their own individual ones). Honestly though most of the positive things I gain from reading ancient spiritual texts is just the reassurance that humanity hasn't fundamentally changed. My mother always acted like older times were simpler and purer. No, no they were not.

Bonus Mixed Amazon Reviews:

tim zidik - One Star Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2014 - Verified Purchase weak not effective

gresmy - a true magical book Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2013 - Verified Purchase wonderfull, educational. I personnaly like the ritual with psentebeth. It worked for me and the several different names of Isis just wow

Can I just pay someone with real event planning and social skills to just include me in whatever they're doing? It would be way better for my mental health than therapy.

Edit: not even just for me personally either. Like as a community thing. I pay my portion and the person planning all this uses it to rent a space and pay for catering or whatever and keeps a list of all of us and tries to get us all out of the house.

I didn't know where else to share this but it's what I think every time someone says something like "ok 'Breq' from 'Gerentate.'"

I still have my ex's bathrobe that he grew out of, and that was two exes and over 10 years ago. It's a lightweight flannel that already had a slightly worn texture when he gave it to me but that literally has not changed in the decade since. It's not that "plush" stuff that gets weird and chunky within a few months, and it's not that super thin knit that gets holes within a few years. It doesn't have any of those whisps of thread that people like because they're soft but that get caught on calluses and hangnails and drive me insane. It's a horrible shade of dark green / navy plaid when I normally go for a more boho / mystical look but I would 100% perform magic spells in it anyway because it is that fucking comfortable. I've considered getting it embroidered just for some extra rizz but I worry it would get scratchy. 10/10 would steal from my ex again.

Related:

Remember kids, if granny suddenly gets real weird, take her to the hospital.

Current out-of-bounds item list for reference:

• Fidget and other sensory toys because I feel like moving in a certain way purely for the sake of itself isn't in the spirit of these challenges.
• Alternative "wellness" products that largely function as placebos by being in the general vicinity of a person such as crystals and "energy focusing copper coils" and the like. Weird looking traditional instruments like a special type of gong or something are acceptable.
• Specialty massage products are fine provided they're mostly used to massage an area other than the genitals (at least, assuming I can tell, but I'm fairly knowledgeable in that area). I do not use sex toys at all for these challenges (that's just not what my aim here is). It's also still ok if the specific massage philosophy claims to have other, pseudo-scientific benefits such as for chiropracty or acupuncture, as long as the tool itself is an actual massage tool.
• objects that are mostly or entirely ornamental / decorative in nature like jewelry and sculptures. I'll still use something that is an ornamental version of something that has a specific non-ornamental purpose (ex: a lot of traditional fibercraft tools or recreational drug equipment for weed or caffeine). Hair ornaments and pins are fine as long as they have some specific niche use such as ornamental hair rollers or having an interesting closure for pinning your shawl in a specific way or something.
• tools that are too broadly applicable such as specialty abrasive drill bits or specialty brushes where what makes them use specific is stuff like size shape and bristle stiffness which are still pretty broadly applicable (a little brush with a long handle has a looot of different uses, think about everything you can do with a used toothbrush).

I just finished working a twelve hour shift on that foot and I knew the skin had been broken but was wondering if a bruise had formed. Idk if you can tell from the picture but it's roughly quarter-sized. The cat, by the way, moved over to the mat by the kitchen sink to finish puking.