Mental Health Blog

she/her | adult

[tr1ckfuneral]

Suicide ideation is so weird. Making a lovely apple pie while thinking of bleeding out in the tub.

[creepycrag]

If you remember being a teenager you're a creep because you straight up saw yourself naked back then. The only way to be righteous is to obliterate your mind with drugs until you can't remember anything

[that-house]

partially-managed mental illness is so fucking funny i'll be sitting around doing my job and suddenly think "wow i hate myself" and immediately get confused because, like, that's not TRUE! i love myself so much. who are you to talk to me like that

[torstherapy]

[anglaised]

how do u explain to someone that racist people dont see disabled brown people as disabled they just see them as evil brown people, like. specifically due to race, how do u explain to someone who refuses to accept that…

[anglaised]

a quick google about the police brutality rates against black autistic individuals will show u very quickly dont nobody gaf or even recognize that we can be disabled bc they r too preoccupied with seeing us as our race and thus projecting every racist thing they think about us onto our people before murdering or jailing us

[librarycards]

the thing about talking to people about psychiatric abuse is that you quickly learn that there are dozens and dozens of ppl around you who experienced unspeakable trauma at the hands of the psych industry in all its iterations and we just walk through the world inundated by messages re: carceral 'recovery' and 'healing' and 'wellness' silent and sucking ourselves in & choking back the memory of what we endured and feeling as though we're alone, truly alone, lacking even the last names of the people we suffered alongside, but we're literally everywhere, all we need to do is reach out and touch each other

[chuunifox]

Autism Representation written by an allistic: My name is John Autism and I like the designated autistic interests

unintentionally autistic character written by the creator who hasn't really thought about whether or not theyre autistic: I wish I could be human like the way everyone else is but I know they can tell I'm not. And I know they're right

[innerchildabortionclinic]

a lot of men and women hold resentment for each other due to faulty assumptions made about the other's upbringing based on personal anecdotes and it's something you seriously have to acknowledge before getting into feminism if you want to be grounded in material reality. we all have more shared experiences (including traumas) than we are aware of, because children regardless of assigned gender are considered subordinate to adults and treated accordingly. you really can't accurately assume anyone you're arguing with on the internet was socialized one way or another.

working through resentment is also important for literally any topic related to punishment. it also feels liberating--your worldview is no longer bound to individuals who ruined your life. they are no more important than any other person. you no longer have a sort of void you feel can only be filled with revenge. i'm not saying you have to forgive anyone, but that life is not like a movie, and you are better off psychologically not living every day waiting for some sort of justice to be enacted that you know will not happen. that may sound kind of bleak or harsh but it's reality for a lot of people, myself included, and it's unsurprisingly a reality that's not easy to accept. I only personally accept it because there isn't really a better option for my mental health, but it's helped me form more coherent politics regardless

[circusheart]

I do think the post that's like "when they torture you to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂🤣" is one of the most succinct and foundational analyses of interpersonal violence and conflict that had ever been written

[gotinterest]

Gonna be honest a lot of people deep down view cheating as worse than abuse which is why so many people view downright controlling and manipulative behavior in a relationship as 100% permissible so long as that behavior is centered around either preventing or discovering cheating.

[meanbuddhist]

identifying a maladaptive coping mechanism is so bitter sweet like that’s great now i know what i need to stop doing. but that’s literally my something

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[adhdtism]

mental illness will have you in the club repeating shit like “everyone hates me and wants me dead for being a Bad Person”

[maybe-someday-eventually]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

nobody tells you this growing up as a sped kid: not only are you not unintelligent compared to the average person, but you will meet people with degrees who still manage to be morons. despite these truths, you will continue to worry that you will never measure up to your peers forever

[cycle-of-ending]

this truth hit me while i was being involuntarily institutionalized: intelligence is a social construct. It's a measure of conformity to the particular mental models, knowledge, and social performances valued by the powerful people in our society. you're not "unintelligent" so much as you are devalued for surviving differently. And the world should change for you.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

AND THE WORLD SHOULD CHANGE FOR ME

[despazito]

petition to relabel "strong sense of justice" in autism and adhd to "strong personal convictions"

[colombinna]

The real and correct name is cognitive rigidity and more people should know and use that

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.

It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

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