Bodily Autonomy is a Human Right

Yggdrasil/Romeo. Any pronouns. Adult. Physically + Mentally disabled.

[madrights]

pinned post/intro time!

I’m Romeo or Yggdrasil, and this is my anti-psych/mad pride/psychiatric rights blog. I am both mentally and physically ill, I am Romani currently residing in the USA, and I use any pronouns. I have ASPD, anorexia, autism, moral OCD, and am psychotic.

[throughkaliyuga]

"therapy just didnt work for you because you weren't completely honest with your therapist" hmm I wonder why I wouldnt be completely honest about my paraphilias or homicidal/suicidal ideation with someone who's literally a mandated reporter. sure is a mystery. not like i could get thrown in an interrogation room or psych ward over thought crimes or anything.

[karcinogen]

Since I've been talking about this a lot lately I really really think we should stop being ableist towards people who self-harm or self-mutilate. People who cut, people who pick their skin, people who pull out their hair, any sort of self-harm that leaves visible marks. Especially when the person has visibly healed.

I remember, one time I posted an image of a plushie a friend had sent me in the mail. My thighs were in frame since I was using them to prop up the plushie, and my thighs were covered in very obvious scars from cutting that had been healed for several months. A few scabs because I had been picking, obviously, but by the time that photo was taken I had been clean for a pretty good amount of time.

Someone reported it! For "Promoting self-harm"! Again, a photo where there were no visible wounds on my leg, a post where I did not ONCE mention that I was cutting, a post that otherwise had fucking NOTHING to do with my self-harm. This happened when I tried to post the photo to Bluesky too!! It got marked with a content warning!!! And I spent the next few days feeling fucking horrible about it which nearly drove me to break my clean streak.

And this isn't all! I've dealt with this shit in real life too. I remember being 14 and being told by the staff at the mental hospital I was staying at that I needed to cover up my legs because the visible cuts and scabs from picking would be "Triggering to other kids". I remember having a doctor look at the cuts on my arm and suddenly my physical health issues didn't matter, it was all about "reducing stress". When I pushed back against this and tried to explain that the fact I was throwing up everything I ate was very much a physical problem and not a mental health one I was forcibly sedated and nearly sent to the fucking mental hospital AGAIN!!! I've had complete strangers give me pitied looks and ask me if I was okay IN PUBLIC. I've had to deal with my own mom telling me how much she "hates seeing me like this" to the point that whenever I'd impulsively self-harm I would isolate myself for weeks and refuse to leave my room just so that she wouldn't give me her pity.

I've been clean for a while now- I've had a few moments where I nearly relapsed but the majority of my scars have faded enough that the average person wouldn't notice them. Of course, they're still there and visible, but even then I still get people in real life encouraging me to get my scars treated or removed. I don't want to. These are a part of my body and a sign of me healing. Other people might want to and that's their decision, obviously, but I don't want to get treatment for my scars.

I just think it's fucking crazy how many times I will see people be fine with other types of scarring on fictional characters but the moment a character visibly self-harms it's suddenly problematic, you're romanticizing self-harm, you're triggering me, you're upsetting me. I constantly see other artists mature tagging or giving trigger warnings for their art just for depicting a character with self-harm scars. And it upsets me! Greatly! I don't like how my body is inherently triggering and upsetting to look at for people. I just want to be able to post pictures of myself without being scared that they're going to be taken down and without being scared of people giving me unwanted pity or something. God.

[pixie-stick-it-to-the-man]

love when people talk out of their ass about youth suicide bc they always inevitably blame the rate on x big thing (like drugs, phones/social media etc) but 1) the suicide rate for teens has been very typically higher than other age groups for like the last 40 years (the only people who maybe have them beat are elderly folks) and 2) I’m so serious about this the one thing that would bring youth suicide down permanently is youth liberation now

[iackalope]

hey internet can I fucking look up my symptoms and issues I think I have without it all being "HOW TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE WITH (xyz)" "PEOPLE WITH (xyz) ARE HORRIFIC MONSTERS" "HOW (xyz) PEOPLE MANIPULATE YOU AND WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE" like actually. fuck you?

[zmpl]

the psych industry and society as a whole is not normal at all towards people who self-harm. people view it as attention-seeking. mental health professionals view it as justification to send you to a “higher level of care” aka incarcerate you. it is seen as a bad/negative behavior that needs to be fixed.

in reality, the concept of self-harm is heavily socially constructed and an issue of bodily autonomy. as humans, we seek out physical pain all the time. we eat spicy foods. we get tattoos and piercings. we engage in BDSM. so why do we forbid self-regulation through pain?

when people are told to cover up their scars, when people are kicked out of DBT support groups for self-harming, when people are conditioned to lie about their self-harm to avoid getting sent to the psych ward, you are telling them that their body is not their own.

the last time i cut myself was roughly a year ago. ironically, after adopting a bodily autonomy mindset around self-harm, i stopped having urges to cut nearly as often because i’m no longer engaging in a power struggle with my own mind over trying to avoid doing a “bad” behavior. i don’t feel like doing it today, but if i do tomorrow, that is okay. because it is my choice to decide what i do with my own body.

[emma-o-yt]

Facts about involuntary psychiatric hold:

The United Nations recognises it as a form of torture.

It increases suicide risk by 191 times.

It increases the risk of dying from heart disease and stroke by 3.5 times (no shit on that one, forcing extremely high doses of heavy drugs on someone without even titrating it does that)

45% of patients in psych wards have experienced sexual violence during an admission.

You are a shitty person if you try to get someone involuntarily committed.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Girl who's like "oh but I don't want to be the one who says no to everything all the time" vs environment that routinely asks for lots of her time to be spent on things she gets nothing out of when she's already struggling to keep up with the stuff she actually likes.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Don't just say no to everything" is useful advice if you're missing out on new experiences and getting stuck in your comfort zone but it stops being useful when it results in a situation where you can reliably be talked into doing stuff you know you don't want to if someone just nags you about it

[tpwrtrmnky]

The little voice saying "just this one time can't hurt" is lying to you because it's not just going to be the one time, the one time is going to set a precedent that will lead to more times. The word no exists for a reason. Use it.

[tpwrtrmnky]

This post is especially for various neurodivergent/disabled people who grew up being pushed to do more than they had capacity for all the time and guilted out of asserting their limits constantly.

You are allowed to say no, and you should do it quicker and more often.

[sagewing]

Carrd

[simpforsix]

honestly the main reason i care about harm reduction is that i believe addicts are deserving of life. "what if they don't get clean?" they still deserve to live. "what if they don't contribute?" they still deserve to live. "what if they 'abuse' the system?" they still deserve to live.

addicts deserve to live by virtue of them being human. nothing will change that. nobody deserves to die of an overdose.

[chronicallyblogged]

Just saw someone on tik tok say that schizoaffective should be normalized bc most ppl can't even tell if they take their meds

Pls stop putting passing as neurotypical be the bar for things being destigmatized. Not all of us look asymptomatic. Some of us are visibly ill.

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

the bad thing about having unhealthy habits due to mental illness, is when you DO do something healthy style you can't brag about about it because then people will then know you've been doing it yucky style all along. Like you can't brag you changed your sheets or brushed your teeth because then ppl will be like oh did you not brush your teeth regularly before? Thats yucky disgusting! So you just gotta keep it to yourself. And be proud alone, I suppose.

[sapphling]

when talking about efforts to forcibly institutionalize or otherwise wield psychiatric violence against trans people you should be conceptualizing these things not as misuses or perversions of originally well-meaning and necessary processes but instead as natural extensions of the continuum of violence represented by the psychiatric system. this is not a power that psychiatric doctors should hold over anyone, and so long as they do it will continue to disproportionately impact vulnerable groups in devastating ways

[eternalgaylord]

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[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like I just feel like a concerning amount of social skills advice for autistic people is written with the fundamentally incorrect assumption that 1) all autistic people could learn how to socialize normally if only they knew it was important and put in a bit of effort, and that 2) thus it is actually fine to judge the autistic people who don't

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

[venatoris]

i made this image for the express purpose of this

[charlesoberonn]