Damselz-In-Sanity

Hello hello, and welcome back to today’s blogzo! This blog's been sitting in my drafts for a while because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to convey - until I realised that was kind of the point. This blog started out as a 14-year-old teenager, bored out of her mind, trying to do something apart from watching Brooklyn 99 for the 99th time. I'd like to believe that in the past 5 years, the blog's refined itself ( just slightly, maybe?) I had no blueprint, no “brand voice,” and was (I'm) just a girl with a laptop and a vague sense that writing might help. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I kept going anyway, and somewhere along the way, it started to make sense. Because I kept learning . I knew almost nothing about psychology—not in any formal way at least—and I definitely wasn’t reading academic papers ( still struggle with those, tbh ). I just had a lot of feelings and a lot of questions, so I wrote. And over time, I began to see patterns emerge: something a friend sai...

 Hie and welcome back to this month's bloggo! If you're an ardent Brooklyn 99 fan (you know I love <3), you're probably familiar with the term 'Pmuls'. If not, it's simply the word "slump" written backwards. Why backwards? Because that's what this post aims to convey! (How do you come out of a slump) Slumps happen to the best of us.  You just get stuck - it feels like you aren't making any progress while everyone around you seems to be doing swimmingly.  Your motivation disappears, your thoughts feel foggy or stuck on a loop, and there’s this low-key heaviness that follows you around—like your spark is dimmed but you don’t know why. You're throwing darts everywhere without realising that the dart board is actually lays 10 feet diagonal to you. But the worst part isn't going through a slump - it's coming out of one. As someone who's gone through various cycles of this, I thought why not share a few tips that help me come out ...