It's like there are two things you need to do: acknowledge that something is a problem (AND IT'S NOT YOU, YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM), and this is how to recover.

Tumblr folk get so much shit for “wallowing in their illnesses” when it's actually not that. It's actually building that foundational comfort in self, to validate that this hurt exists, that this pain is here, BEFORE you move on.

And YES, you can be stuck in it, which is why then you focus on recovery. But FIRST…