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ganaka ward - part 1

told yall it would be a bit different teehee... stay tuned for part 2, where murderbot learns The Truth!

When I read discussions abt ableism in academia I get this sort of...mized up feeling, because...idk, there's a weird sense in which academia isn't *supposed* to be fair. Like. The point (or, one of a variety of purposes) is to assess your academic abilities. To the extent that a disability affects your abilities, academia discriminating based on disability indirectly by discriminating on ability is sort of...functioning as intended? And like, I don't think that's a fundamentally evil system! Having a mechanism by which people can demonstrate that they have certain capabilities is useful for a functioning society. But also.. Idk, this doesn't FEEL right. It feels uncomfortable. I think part of it is thst college fills a weird semi obligatory social role in certain classes of American society. Part of it is that locking ppl with certain mental illnesses out of academia disadvantages them, whcih feels bad. But again I'm not sure how removable that feature is. I guess you could make academia just abt learning and not about testing. But I think SOMETHING should fill that testing role. I guess you could shift the blame to capitalism at large that not getting a degree is a a disadvantage...idk. Nothing feels right

mentalhealth

i’m really, really proud of you. i may not know the details of your pain but i know you’re hurting and enduring it. please keep going. let yourself rest when you’re tired and try again when you’re ready. i’m proud of you.

closet-keys

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with others. The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group exalts her. Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity.”

— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (via closet-keys)

boyburning

Intrusive Thoughts are unwanted thoughts or images that you find distressing and/or disturbing.

more information on what intrusive thoughts are!

what intrusive thoughts are: https://moodsmith.com/intrusive-thoughts/

how to cope with them: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/how-to/how-to-stop-intrusive-thoughts-and-live-your-life/

zeud

!!!!!

foolsdome

I- so i’m not just fucking insane and evil?

a-god-for-pigs

I feel like a lot of peoples getting offended by this doesnt realize that none of those are actions we want to do. My ADD absolutely fills my head with extremely upsetting intrusive toughts almost 24/7. The very fact that they disgust me and upset me is what makes it an intrusive tought. Its not something you want to act upon, its your brain assaulting you non stop with everything that you hate and despise.

da-riya

This idea that intrusive thoughts are someone’s “true id” talking is particularly harmful to us experiencing these thoughts themselves.

If y'all haven’t yet heard it before you heard it here now, these thought are everything we hate and despise, and nothing else.

nonbinaryemonugget

it all makes sense now

the-goddess-of-annoying

Okay but what about like “Put the used cat litter in your mouth” or “Open the door of the moving car” or “Test if nail clippers work on your teeth”? Are those intrusive thoughts?

thefivecalls

Those are actually impulsive thoughts! Very similar, but still distinct from its sibling disorder!

survivor-positivity

to everyone asking if what they went through was ‘really’ trauma: it was. if you feel you were traumatised by it, then it was trauma. there’s nothing more to it than that

teenypumpkinbaby-deactivated202

my therapist told me that trauma is any situation in which you felt helpless that has had a lasting impact on you. trauma doesn’t always feel “traumatic” at the time. you’re valid in your emotions even long after something has happened.

antirealisation

I generally hate that rhetorical device that's like "Why do you hate [marginalised population]?"

But sometimes you come across things that make you have to ask, "You, uh, sure do hate psychiatric survivors, huh?"

psychiatricsurvivorpositivity

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but coercion is not care. Coercion is violence.

neuroqueer-cpunk

That psychiatry critical peer support Discord server is getting off the ground, DM me if you’re interested in joining! It’s shaping up to be a rad leftist peer support space

ableismandaltruism

Is this still a thing?

madness-narrative

“People are still being punished for being in pain, for feeling their pain, and for trying to speak their pain.”

— Judi Chamberlin

bananapeppers

DJ Jaffe, prominent proponent of psychiatric interventions against “patient” consent, of psychiatric carcerality, of “parental rights” over psychiatrically labeled adults (and minors), and of psychiatric “anosognosia” which attempts to discredit psychiatrically labeled by framing us as incapable of insight (specifically as incapable of recognizing that we are “wrong” if and when we refuse any psychiatric interventions/frameworks as harmful or unhelpful to us), cofounder of the Treatment Advocacy Center and founder of Mental Illness Policy Org, died on August 23. 🥂

psychiatricsurvivorpositivity

No one ever tells you how utterly isolating and lonely it is to be a survivor of psychiatric violence. To be excluded from the larger discussions on societal and state-sponsored violence. To have nowhere to talk about your experiences. To have your experiences discredited and invalidated. To not be able to seek justice.

ableismandaltruism

100%, yes. I have been stripped of my human rights in a soul-stripping way, and I can’t even tell anyone about it.

I can’t even tell people about it and then Netflix releases shows like Ratched.

thehorrorsofgoodwill

Donation of the day Aspergers Cat and ADHD dog.

bittersnurr

I get the point of this post was “depression doesn’t make you creative” which is obviously true, but wow it sure is a fucking bold claim to say someone who killed themselves “got the help they needed” in a old timey mental asylum when the MODERN abuse rate is so high my therapist even agrees it’s usually not worth it. Like seriously you could have made the argument that he was so DESPERATE to get better he checked himself into what at the time was likely torture to try and fix that shit and not sound ridiculous and make the same point…

bittersnurr

Like a good summery on why this is so fucking outrageous to me: ADAPT is being dragged from their wheelchairs and arrested as we speak because medicaid cuts will force the severely disabled into institutional settings. The “help” they offer does so much damage NOW IN MODERN DAY that people would rather be beat up by the police and dragged to jail then not protest being put there.

Framing old asylums as good is just fucking bizarre to me they probably help maybe 10% of people at best NOW and most people I know who have gobe come back in worse shape.

lunaerium

I was committed as a teen, only for like a week, but it was a fucking nightmare. Do not uphold inpatient mental health facilities (especially from the days of yore) as “getting the help you need”. I only saw the kids ward, but what I saw was people being thrown away by their parents, parents who were so desperate to “fix” us that they signed our rights away to total strangers. And they didn’t let us forget it. When I asked about the meds I was suddenly prescribed, several orderlies told me “we have to do what we think is best, your parents gave us permission to do a whole lot more than this…” as if to imply.. well you get it.

happinessisaknife

buddy i’ve got some stories about mental health care lmfao but to sum it all up:

i watched security get called on a dude for standing up from the dining table.

flyingpurplepizzaeater

problem with therapy: teaching people they are always being watched and scrutinized, and that other people’s opinions define whether things like their body language feelings etc are right or wrong can fuck people up no matter what your opinions are, even if your opinion is that it is not wrong