This Viral Thread On Things That Betray The Real State Of Your Mental Health Is A Must-Read

For someone dealing with mental health issues, keeping up appearances daily can be one tough task. But if you're think you're alone in this, you're not. A Twitter thread now going viral for all the right reasons lines up all the things that give away the real state of your mental health.

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It started when Rosemary Donahue, digital wellness editor with Allure, posed the following question:

what's the one thing that betrays the true status of your mental health even when you're managing to keep up appearances in all other areas of your life? for me, it's the amount of dishes in my sink

¡ª Rosemary Donahue (@rosadona) February 22, 2019

And in honest Twitter fashion, many people spoke up. Their answers are everything:

#1

Unread/unresponded to emails, pile of unopened mail.

¡ª Emily Best (@Emilycgb) February 22, 2019

#2

Obsessively checking social media.

¡ª Leo St. Von (@Leo_Caldwell) February 22, 2019

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#3

Junk food intake

¡ª Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger) February 23, 2019

#4

Taking my shower at 4pm instead of 8 am

¡ª Kim sorensen (@nichepkg_kim) February 23, 2019

#5

The number of different alarms I have to set at 5-10 minute intervals

¡ª Louise Thomson (@Soprano_Lou) February 23, 2019

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#6

It¡¯s a cliche but messy bedroom everytime. Stuff that would take me two minutes to tidy but just end up ignoring it. Once I¡¯ve tidied it tomorrow though - omg I¡¯ll be a changed woman.

¡ª Becky (@BeckyyAdele) February 22, 2019

#7

Dirty clothes. When I am not depressed, I try to wash clothes once a week. When I am depressed, I just let dirty clothes pile up.

¡ª Evette Dionne ???¡â? (@freeblackgirl) February 23, 2019

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#8

Yours and also all of these pic.twitter.com/5Z8TE8G986

¡ª Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) February 23, 2019