Anything to do with mental illnesses/disorders
Dear Brain...
Look, you and I need to clear up some stuff:
- Putting on your pants with your right foot first with your toes pointed will not, in fact, prevent any of your family members from dying in their sleep. The relationship between how you put on your pants and your family members' health is not even a relationship.
- You cannot actually feel the clutter "buzzing" at you. You're making that up.
- The light on the TV is not "watching" you. It is not even a smart TV, so literally no conspiracy theories are backing you up here, babe.
- Leaving crumbs on the kitchen counter does not mean your counters will be swarming with insects in the morning. Remember how often you leave the kitchen messy when you go to bed? Yeah, that's right, most of the time. Remember how many nightmarish infestations you've woken up to? That's right: none. Get a grip.
- The mattress not being exactly square on the box spring will not make your bed fall apart. I realize you will stay up until three in the morning thinking about how the mattress is not exactly square on the box spring... but this is because you are crazy. It's okay that you're crazy, but it might be helpful to pin the itchy irritable feeling on that instead of on the mattress. It's not the poor mattress's fault.
- You don't actually have to wash your hands every time you touch your foot, the carpet, or the bottom of your purse. Yes, these places collect germs, but germs are good for you. Remember your immune system? That thing that's constantly falling apart because you never challenge it? It would love some germs. No? Hey, I tried.
- You only have to check that the doors are locked once. They are incapable of magically unlocking themselves after you leave the room.
Remember to breathe, relax your facial muscles at least a couple times tomorrow, and try to resort to the distraction of phone games instead of the distraction of Oreos when you can, because you know how we feel after eating an entire package of Oreos.
That's right. We feel like an Oreo. Oily and stuffed.
This has been your daily reality check. We'll talk again soon.
Much love (yes, really),
-likeagirl




Hang in there. Here's my version:
Brain,
Just because there's nothing going on doesn't mean you have to count. You really don't.
Just because nothing is wrong right now doesn't mean you have to look for something to be wrong.
High five for brain letters! :D
I identify with #2 so much... I hope you're able to remind yourself of this whenever your brain starts slipping into one of those looking-for-a-problem grooves!
I really like this idea of "Brain Letters". After reading your post it made me realize that I've been making them all along in my own head.
Feel free to run with it! I'm not sure if it would do better as its own community or just as a regular format here. :)
<3