[dontshoothemessenger]

everyone who hates louis de pointe du lac shall die a miserable death

[skaggot489]

They call me mettaton's biggest glazer

[7cipher]

got some new pencils! :3

[rallyhouseremix]

If you were the last vampire on Earth...it would be enough.

You and me.

Me and you.

[willowbyte]

love finds its way to the girl

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It IS okay to go to therapy and take psych meds, but it is just as okay to decide that you don't want these treatments or that they aren't worth it. You cannot claim to "support the mentally ill" if you're only actually supporting the mentally ill people who happily comply with psychiatric treatments

[zmpl]

mental illness is a social construct AND i suffer from serious chronic mental illness that affects every aspect of my life. these two concepts can co-exist

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

And it's funny how people will keep asking me "do you think people should be allowed to take psych meds" when I'm for full decriminalization of all psychoactive substances like do whatever you want to your own body forever I'm not a cop

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like if the field of psychiatry was in any way apolitical and objective the gender/race discrepancies in who gets diagnosed with what definitely wouldn't look like they do

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It is not a coincidence when the white boy is more likely to get diagnosed with autism or ADHD and the white girl is more likely to get diagnosed with anxiety and BPD and the black kids are more likely to get diagnosed with ODD and schizophrenia and it definitely isn't harmless objective science...

[zmpl]

the notion of saving lives at all costs prevents suicidal people from speaking about their experiences in a candid way, knowing they will be decentered (e.g. “your family/friends will be devastated if you die”), subject to moral arguments (e.g. “suicide is a selfish act”), referred to someone else, often someone who has a hefty paywall behind their listening ear (e.g. “are you seeing a therapist about this?”), or incarcerated against their will. because of this, voices of suicidal people are left out from conversations about suicide, even paradoxically in campaigns encouraging suicidal people to reach out for support.

in order to break the stigma around suicidality, we have to break away from the prevention-no-matter-what script and honor suicidal people’s autonomy, allowing them to speak freely about their lived experience even in the face of personal discomfort for nonsuicidal people. in our current society, nonsuicidal people wield power/privilege over suicidal people. if your immediate reaction to hearing about a marginalized person’s pain is to shut them down in some way, you need to evaluate why you are centering your own comfort above another person who is confiding in you.

[wheelie-sick]

people will say "gender is socially constructed even though the experience of gender is real" but then an antipsychiatrist says "mental illness is socially constructed even though the symptoms are real" and suddenly the same people are confused.

it's the same concept. these categories are made up and subjective. psychiatrists across the globe can't even agree on these things- there are multiple different books used to diagnose mental illness that define mental illness differently.

the experience of depression is real but the category "major depressive disorder" is a social construct.

[zmpl]

a lot of the DSM’s very clearly prejudiced diagnoses (e.g. hypoactive sexual desire disorder, gender dysphoria, transvestic disorder, etc.) try to skirt around the prejudice by saying “the disorder lies in the patient’s distress over being this way, not the behavior itself :)” like hmmm do you think their distress has anything to do with societal expectations around “normal” sexuality and gender? or is distress just this magic thing that exists in a vacuum with no outside influence

like keep in mind that homosexuality was in the DSM until pressure was put on the APA by gay rights activists, and they “removed” it in 1973 and replaced it with many different diagnostic labels over the years to describe “this person is gay and distressed over it so we’re treating the distress with conversion therapy. blease don’t think we’re homophobic.” it wasn’t until 2013 that distress over one’s own sexual orientation was removed entirely from the DSM. do what you will with this information and begin to wonder what psychiatry’s actual motives are for continuing to pathologize queerness and gender nonconformity.

[ego-similis-testudines]

It's seriously fucked up that there's no way to speak frankly with a professional about suicidal thoughts without the looming threat of involuntary institutionalization and, by extension, psychiatric abuse. How, exactly, are suicidal people supposed to be aided in not feeling suicidal if they aren't allowed to safely express it through what are supposed to be the appropriate channels?

[dontshoothemessenger]

why do we as trans ppl passively accept the pathologisation of gender dysphoria as a mental disorder? is this not dissimilar to how homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder just a few decades ago - something which we now understand as a calculated move by psychiatry to justify the narrative that homosexuality is ‘unnatural’ and a harm to society. not to mention how the classification of gender dysphoria as a medical pathology has been exploited to create barriers to transition and ultimately suppress trans ppl in society. why can’t gender dysphoria simply be a facet of the human experience rather than being prescribed a label which frames transness as a deviation from the ‘norm’ which requires curing. even if mainstream psychiatry states that treatment for dysphoria is gender affirming care rather than the suppression of transgender identity, this does not erase the core framing of dysphoria as a mental illness, the exact diagnosis which bigots classify trans ppl with. if transphobes believe we are mentally ill - why do we agree with them?

[transmutationisms]

Hi! I was wondering, do you have any thoughts on the concept of ‘hypersexuality’ from a psych abolition perspective?

it's bad, it has no grounding on any real notion of 'normal' sexuality because there is no such thing, it fails to account for the way shame around sexuality arises from the cultural context rather than from the sex acts in themselves, it's grounded in eugenic and natalist moral panics about the wrong people having too many children and the right people having too few, it's grounded in additional moral panics about the idea women could find sexual fulfillment outside the confines of the bourgeois marriage as an economic unit of capitalist production, &c

[sweetlambeyed]

noelle sprite redraws this shit made me get upppppp

[v1tteba]