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64mpg

ok! affirmations for today AAAAAAAA HELP ME GOD PLEASEEEE AAAAAAAA

lomggone

aquarines

the poster

moth-grrrl-mavis

Witch Watch is the story of an adorable bumbling magical girl almost killing herself every day and only surviving because her mother assigned her a polycule.

julyknights

missmentelle

Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment.

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions.

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements.

Hope this answers your question!

#had bad recurrent depressive episodes for about a decade #got on the right meds #now totally symptom free for years #makes me wonder if I still need the meds tbh but that way lies danger

happymiffy

felikatze

do NOT trust your own thoughts that everyone hates you. the curse of the blood moon is imminent. it's not you. it's ganondorf

felikatze

i need to [remembers suicide jokes lower your self esteem] free the four divine beasts and vanquish calamity ganon

stuckinapril

happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july

escuerzoresucitado

Reached the stage of thinking about fan fiction where I’m spending my sunday lying around telling myself my little stories but not actually writing any of it down

#fan fiction #writing is hard

natalieironside

The pleasing and delightsome animal "dog" is a sort of bespoke pseudowolf engineered to hang out with you

natalieironside

other available pseudowolves include "fox" who shrieks in the night and "coyote" who is like if a wolf had a little brother who smoked weed

The thing about Preservation Aux in Murderbot is that they represent a group of people who, through cleverness and idealism and stubbornness, have carved out a space of genuine human connection and relative though incomplete freedom from the all-encompassing demands of surveillance capitalism,

which feels very much like what I’m trying to do with my little friends and our little community

#murderbot