I like the idea, even if I think the meme format didn't work.

One of the things that I've found difficult in the ongoing management of my mental health problems is that it's often hard to discern when the bad feels are due to brain weasels, or due to the oppressive system we live under

I've always been a politically engaged person, but it took me a while to realise how much I had internalised my resentment towards the unjust systems we live under. I will always be grateful to my late best friend for helping me out of that — an example is when I was going through the extremely stressful appeal process for disability benefits, and when my friend (who had no direct lived experience of disability) learned of how much that process demands of vulnerable people who need support, he was shocked and outraged at the injustice.

I remember being so taken back by how viscerally offended he was by it all; I had long since accepted this as part of what's normal for disabled people in my country, and had internalised a heckton of toxic ableism in the process. His outrage on my (and other disabled people's) behalf was refreshing because it made me sort of go "Yeah! You're right! This is fucked up!". There are loads of other times that he evoked a similar feeling in me by simply being a person with a tremendously strong sense of justice. It doesn't erase the mental illness I struggle with (which often causes me to think or act in irrational ways), but it's much easier to identify and respond to those things when I am proactively directing my rage outwards at the world where it belongs, instead of inwards towards myself.

God, I miss him. I wouldn't be the person I am now without him. Like I said, I've always been a politically passionate person, but he helped me to become a far more effective political force.