A mental health blog Normal experiences of the not normal. You can submit things if you have STPD/on the schizophrenia spectrum /have any other mental illnesses (self-dxed , traits, or professional), or are questioning. (PS, We accept Selfies, questions, thoughts, and experiences.) PS #not a thing/ doesn't mean that it's not real, I use it to separate literally everything else from my #little stpd things/ like a suggestion blog.
It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere
psychosis needs to lose its negative connotation, its a thing that happens. you are far closer to psychotic episodes than you think and we need to all know how to deal with them properly
I always say that psychosis is a natural part of human experience or state of mind. And guess what, non psychotics get MAD when I say that. "No, its not natural or normal at all! Dont normalize it!" Guess what happens when you haven't slept in a few days? Psychosis. Guess what can happen when you're too stressed? Psychosis. Guess what can happen from physical conditions? Psychosis. Psychosis is the same type of normal that any other negative state of mind is. Someone experiencing depression due to circumstances? Normal. Someone dissociating during a stressful event? Normal. Psychosis isn't different. ANYONE can experience psychosis and it doesn't even have to be a disorder. Psychotic disorders are disorders due to the frequency and intensity of psychosis.
People need to stop demonizing normal human experiences
it's upsetting how much schizophrenics are excluded from the neurodivergent community, even though we are very much so a part of it.
schizophrenia is a type of neurodivergence.
it's such a good thing to see more acceptance happening for autism and adhd for example, but what's not good is seeing so many people ignore schizophrenia or act like it's "too scary" to be included.
i cannot emphasise how harmful and ableist those stereotypes are.
my reading addon is waiting approval for firefox and chrome im so nervous. please approve my addon i think it could help at least one other person as much as it's helped me...
it's an accessibility tool i made for myself because i needed it, which basically lets you focus on one sentence at a time as you read large blocks of texts (books, articles, etc.). it offers different highlight styles, some of which use gradients to help guide your eyes from the start of the sentence until the end. you can move forward and back pressing the buttons or using ALT + left and right arrow keys
if you use it and you find it helpful please tell me about it so i can have the motivation to keep improving it. i love knowing people use my tools
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I’m a college student struggling with brain fog due to medical issues, I’m definitely going to try this out next time I’m working on one of my reading heavy courses :) a lot of my books are accessible via some website cloud thing on a browser because owning things isn’t real anymore. this looks like something that will really really help me.
he is being kept alive only from iv fluids at the medical tent
i know we raised money for a small carton for him before, but that money is frustratingly currently caught in limbo and samah hasn't had any access to it at all.
i'm sorry to ask again for this but money is insanely dire and our funds are extremely low. we had one donation yesterday and nothing today
and we still aren't going to be able to get the money on this day for samah as the market will close in a matter of hours, so it's going to be 6 days at least before he can drink anything
samah wanted me to send the following message:
Please brother, I'm asking you, please, I'm knocking on all the doors for my son, please, this is a request from me to speak here and tell her that Ammar, Samah's son, has been without milk for five days and she's begging you, if you could complete the amount, she won't forget your favor, I'm watching Ammar die slowly, I'm begging you, don't leave me going through this painful situation, please brother, tell here, please Do anything to save my son
she needs a box because after this long without milk, ammar will have to drink deeply and of his fill - if we bought a 2 day carton right now, it would be gone in less than a day and he'd still need more now
so it's just cheaper in the long run to purchase the 10 day box of milk
sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.
I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?
and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.
one of the most traumatizing things i witnessed in the psychiatric hospital was a man of color who was held down by six police officers, face held down into the linoleum floor, a nurse taking off his hospital gown and underwear to inject him with psychiatric medication as he screamed at the top of his lungs for them not to do so. then they put him in a solitary soundproof room.
prior to this, he was non-violent, quiet, walking around, saying hi to other patients. he said hi to me. i heard the nurses saying he had been found under an overpass the previous night, confused. i never saw him again. for the next nine days i spent in the hospital, i was terrified of that happening to me, too.
i know most non-psychotic people think calling 911 and institutionalization helps us, but in most cases, it causes way more harm.
i need you to understand something, right? me and a small group of people have been supporting ammar for months. he's just a baby we watched grow up. and you know? babies are supposed to gain weight over the months. he hasn't. it's horrible. the recent crisis with his medication? when i wrote that post i was in such a state of despair because i was convinced this infant i had watched and supported at great personal expense over several months would die. samah has lost hope for treating her own medical conditions - she's not fully healthy either - but she can't raise the money. people have NEVER donated consistently. me and a few others are at the end of our ropes having depleted ourselves trying to make up for what crowdfunding hasn't done. and i'm so overwhelmingly grateful to everyone who proved me wrong and got ammar's medicine.
but please...
can you help him again?
ammar needs milk too. it's not possible to get in gaza at a reasonable rate. it's $468 per carton and he needs 4 per week, for $1872.
and the thing is.
if ammar doesn't get milk, he will die.
0/1872
Support Cam
proof that this is going to her + her vetting here
he needs at least $468 to be able to buy a carton of milk
a doctor is concerned about the amount of weight ammar has lost - he has gone from 14 kg [31 lbs] to 8 kg [18 lbs] and offered samah a deal where he will buy her 2 weeks' worth of milk with the price of this one week. this halves the pricing and lets ammar eat properly for a while
however, today is the final day and as you can see, people haven't been donating. he is going to leave to buy the milk at 5 pm gaza time, and that's in 1 and a half hours. i really really wish we could get this deal because ammar badly needs to put on weight
but even getting enough for one carton of milk would be something. ammar once again has run out of food since this morning and has been starving
the more this cycle continues, the more weight he will lose and the sicker he will get
please donate as much as you can and share around as much as you can
good news: the doctor has informed samah that he is actually leaving at 8 pm gaza time tomorrow, not today. this means we have one more day to raise this money
please let's do this so we can get this deal for ammar
"every psych major that I've met has had at least one mental health issue"
and then said mental health issue is anxiety and/or depression
like, sure, those carry stigma but I am bipolar and psychotic. my experience with psych majors will be very very different because we aren't seen as "having mental health problems" we are seen as being an entirely different species. I just don't really care that they "have mental health problems" because they still see bipolar & psychotic people as being completely separate from the rest of humanity
I feel like we need to talk more about how fucking boring depression can be. I pick up a book and can’t read more than a few sentences, a chapter if I’m lucky, before I can’t focus. I knit two rows of something and then can’t continue. I scroll through all the different options of shows I haven’t watched without clicking on any of them. I hop from app to app looking for content that will spark literally any single emotion. It’s not even 10am and I already feel like I’m just waiting until it’s time to go back to bed.
A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.
I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.
All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."
But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.
It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.
A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.
I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.
All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."
But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.
It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.
A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.
I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.
All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."
But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.
It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.
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