bit schtewpid innit

23 || shriggin deez nuts || non(bi)nary || bsc astrophysics student || insta art acc: @sadcrabart

[haunthid]

art as a hobby is great because I can just draw whatever the hell I want Spinosaurus mirabilis

[maxxie-or-smth]

no one else twists the knife as good as u come over

[fairycosmos]

what if i just manipulate reality with my mind and make everything perfect and good

[2colde]

they call me the endurer the way i endure and endure and endure and endure and well u get it

[mortalityplays]

there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.

and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit

[kosmogrl]

deciding one day that you want to build a life for yourself is so scary. like damn I really want to live… I’m new to this. where do I even begin

[kosmogrl]

april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good

[valtsv]

being psychotic and socially conscious is a hell of a combination because every day of your life you'll meet people more out of touch with reality than you'll ever be and yet somehow you're the crazy one

[valtsv]

+ because you're already familiar with how psychiatric theory intersects with and is influenced, if not outright defined, by the socipolitical landscape it develops in, and can be weaponised to destroy the credibility and limit the capacity to act of anyone who opposes the hegemonic social order, you already understand all of this. but you are also genuinely insane. so you kind of just have to simmer in a lake of fire called rhetoric forever. sad!

[valtsv]

yes i'm a danger to society and you should be too

[swadloom]

STOP saying the otherworldly powers are corrupting my mind godddddd. You literally wish you were us. I mean us. I mean me.

[cozmickk]

take that everybody

[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!

[milkywayes]

I might have missed international women's day… but not interstellar women's day. so here she is. the interstellar woman

[susiephone]

so frustrating to be a skeptic with a sense of whimsy because like. I want there to be cryptids. I want there to be magic. I want there to be evidence of something we don't fully understand and can't explain. but then 99% of the "proof" out there for that stuff is like. the most obvious scam you've ever seen in your life.

[ckret2]

[vyva-melinkolya]

Don’t make your younger self into your own dead wife.

[ashstfu]

my god, i crave slowness. deliberate living. conversations that last entire afternoons.

[thisrobothasnosoul]

Hey IDK who needs to hear this but the consequences of starvation are much worse than eating "junk" food. Eat the fucking candy bar ad long as you eat

[papayajuan2019]

killing myself out of habit