i keep on trying, might as well

i have a lot of interests that i like to get excited about | ☭ | mid 20s | schizospec | aspec | i treat my blog like a diary

[heavyonthechaos]

Some things I wish will happen for the psychotic community:

more sensitivity regarding psychosis e.g. no more unreality jokes

mental health vocab stays in the mental health realm e.g. no using psychotic or delusional as insults

it'll be more normalised to include psychotic disorders and symptoms in ND/MH posts

which will lead to it becoming mainstream to know the basics about psychotic disorders

good representation in a tv show

no more filming or laughing at people who act "weird"

no more telling psychotic people what they can and can't do with their lives

[cutecipher]

i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.

[heavyonthechaos]

Had my first ECT session today

[heavyonthechaos]

okay so not only are a lot of the patients at the mood disorder department saneist but at least two of the nurses are too! So that's fun

[aminta]

a real true mutual waits until you are opening tumblr at work to reblog sexually explicit art

[queerautism]

Idk how to explain to you that the end goal has never been to turn oppression around and do it to someone else

[heavyonthechaos]

So yk how Aromantic Awareness Week is a week after valentines day? can we make the week after world friendship day Aplatonic Awareness Week?

[memory-of-stargazing]

Just discovered it’s National Schizophrenia Awareness Day!!

I have that!

So! Here’s some awareness from yours truly!!

We are people just like you

We are statistically more likely to be harmed than to do harm

Not all of us are overt, there’s a good chance you have talked to and maybe even been friends with a schizophrenic without knowing!

There’s more schizophrenia spectrum disorders than just schizophrenia, such as schizoaffective personality disorder

“Schizo” is considered an offensive term by many schizophrenics and some even consider it a slur against us, if you aren’t schizospec yourself please try to avoid using it (as well as “psycho” for psychosis!)

Similarly, the recently common “quirky” online phrases “delulu”, “schizoposting”, “I’m so delusional” (without actually having a delusion), etc are also very offensive! We aren’t a joke!

Not all of us hallucinate or have delusions. There’s more symptoms than just those 2 and the schizophrenia diagnostic criteria doesn’t even necessarily require either of them to be present

We can sometimes know we’re having a delusion while still experiencing the delusion, it’s called double bookkeeping

We deserve rights and bodily autonomy (that includes to not be forcefully drugged and locked up without our consent!!!)

We are people just like you

[nyctosaurid]

did it work

[trek-tracks]

I just thought this image might resonate with a lot of folks on this website for some reason

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[heavyonthechaos]

Btw shout out to non-psychotic people who educate others when the words delusional, psychotic, (spiritual) psychosis, schizophrenic etc are being thrown around as jokes or insults. i know it's hard when no one else sees it as offensive but it's appreciated

[heavyonthechaos]

"I care about cause X because I'm an empathetic person" gives the same as "I do good things because I'm religious and afraid of hell"

[heavyonthechaos]

psychotic is not a bad word btw

[ucanbanything]

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!