Clayton

Clayton. Married. 34. I have a PhD and I’m still stupid.

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

sometimes a bad bitch just needs to sit by the sea

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[heydr-k]

I'm tired of having schizophrenia. Make it all stop someone please

[icaseybaybee]

[sceptixfakemon]

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

[sceptixfakemon]

im never leaving this hellsite

[sceptixfakemon]

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

[sceptixfakemon]

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

[7l7l7l7l7l7l7l7]

yall ever miss your own energy?? like damn wtf happened to me??

[ojibwa]

mmmm the color green

[starblaster]

i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

[starblaster]

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you

assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times

encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others

start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms

do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode

what it does not mean:

insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real

[gayskrillex]

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

[starblaster]

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

[an-indecisive-nerd]

This is also very similar to what you should do when people with Alzheimer’s have paranoia episodes

[scenerwiththegreenery]

What this boils down to is having compassion for someone whose perception of reality is altered. Telling someone what they’re experiencing isn’t real when that is the experience they are having right now is utterly useless. When you don’t know who or what to trust, having a safe person to help tether you helps a lot.

Psychosis is terrifying. Anything that distorts your perception (hallucinations, delusions, cognitive deficits, drug effects) and makes you feel distrustful (paranoia is common in all of these) increases your stress and fear. So as a safe person, you want to reduce that stress and fear, and create a space where the person can ride out what they’re experiencing instead of exacerbating it.

Don’t “correct” the person; you are listening to THEIR CURRENT PERCEPTION, and facts aren’t relevant to that. Be compassionate without affirming the delusion. Validate the emotions, not the delusion: “That sounds really scary/upsetting/etc.” If you believed what they currently believe, you’d be scared/upset. Compassion validates that their feelings are real without reinforcing the delusional belief. This is vital.

Sometimes, when I’m in an episode and especially near the beginning, it helps just being able to talk about what I’m experiencing without judgement and especially being able to vent my feelings of frustration, fear, paranoia, and general wariness of the world and whether anything is real if I can’t trust my senses. Knowing my spouse will not have me locked up for my mental illness and will listen and empathize and offer support helps.

There have been times we have driven around for hours, and I get the aux and just play whatever I feel like, and we observe things we pass through the windows, a form of shared reality-building that is soothing to me because I like riding in the car. Yeah, I’m still having an episode, but it reduces stress and fear, so I don’t get stuck there.

A safe person makes a HUGE difference for someone who is experiencing psychosis. Truly.

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[thissweetenamor]

[sweetoothgirl]

Dulce de Leche Cookies

[bucephaly]

😭😭

[bucephaly]

There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders

Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.

This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.

I recommend checking out the little cherokee seeds facebook page!!

[becomedog]

Little Cherokee Seeds - Cherokee Language Immersion Program

Little Cherokee Seeds offers mother-infant Cherokee language and culture immersion, fostering Cherokee communities rooted in language, value

[pickleston]

[livelovelaugh-777]

[iota-andromedae]

anyways schizospec and psychotic people who are also horror fans are stronger than any u.s. marine

[no-one-offical]

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