Mental health permission slips are a brilliant form of validation that I’ve recently discovered through Instagram. Basically, mental health permission slips are designed to give you permission to feel or think or do something that your brain is otherwise telling you is “wrong.” It helps if these permission slips come from an authority, like a therapist or someone going through the same thing you are.
I’m not a therapist, but I do experience depression and anxiety, I’m healing from childhood trauma, and I’m a highly sensitive person (HSP).
So I thought I would make a few mental health permission slips related to those topics. If you’re not sure if these slips apply to you, that’s a sign that they absolutely do apply to you.
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