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Unexpected Sp✨rkle

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Writing vignettes about #mentalillness and #neurodivergence✏️ . Looking for zines to contribute to! (get in touch!)

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Trying to use social media for my writing & art without live streaming my delusions and hallucinations.

17.02.2026 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Picked up a passion for collaging in the art therapy sessions in psychiatric hospital

17.02.2026 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white digital image. At the bottom of a series of steps that highlight the words. 'vision', 'goal', 'plan', 'action', and 'success' sits a wheelchair user who sits beneath a plaque that reads 'lift out of order'

A black and white digital image. At the bottom of a series of steps that highlight the words. 'vision', 'goal', 'plan', 'action', and 'success' sits a wheelchair user who sits beneath a plaque that reads 'lift out of order'

Calling all disabled poets! Submit your poetry to the Our Right to Thrive Poetry Competition. We're looking for poems that explore disability, identity, resistance, and thriving.

Closes - 23rd Feb

disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

16.02.2026 17:30 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

This is really effective, love it ❤️

12.02.2026 13:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Self-Portrait (Anxiety)
2026
Acrylic paint, oil pastel, chalk pastel, charcoal, and graphite on canvas ✍️
#MentalHealth #painting #anxiety #portrait #art

07.02.2026 13:29 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

"While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them."

The other significant others – living and loving outside the confines of conventional friendship and compulsory

10.02.2026 14:28 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Need a mental health year

29.01.2026 16:06 👍 343 🔁 35 💬 10 📌 3
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👀 We want to follow more cool shops and get our zines out into the world more! So, tell us about your favourite local shop(s) that sells zines! 🙌✨️

15.01.2026 13:26 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Even in the depths of severe mental illness, life can have unexpected sparkle ✨

21.01.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Unexpected Sp✨rkle From rock bottom, with love

Unexpected sparkle ✨ unexpectedsparkle.wordpress.com

21.01.2026 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0