Schizo-fey-nic

Hedge / xe + xem / 24 / schizzied right up psych abolition + psych liberation

[schizofeynic]

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I'm Hedge! xe/xem, transandrogyne + a queer dyke. I am a psych abolitionist + psych liberationist!! Committed anarchist and always up to shenanigans. Reads like my life depends on it. Starting to love rugby, remember how to draw + keep up w my embroidery.

Contains multitudes of MMIND (schizophrenic, bpd, traumatised in unusual and interesting ways, ocd, + MORE) things and also plural. Mad Pride Baybeee! My body is also always exhausted and sore.

Very disorganised, v good humoured about my brain, always open to questions + schizophrenia is my passion (<- I read papers apsychotics write and grit my teeth thru it).

Got questions abt life with schizophrenia or schizophrenia in general? Shoot! I can probably scrounge up an answer.

Some other labels I love dearly: butch, neuroqueer, schizoqueer, speciesqueer, t4t, queerian, anarchoqueer, androgyne.

[cerviideath]

So fuckin tired of seein even other mentally ill folks sayin shit like "I'm so worried that maybe I don't actually have [mental disorder] or I'm not really [identity related label] n that I'm just schizophrenic instead" As if bein on the schizophrenia spectrum is some goddamn death sentence that instantly invalidates every single experience you ever had or will ever have. They act like everythin about you is no longer real n shouldn't be taken seriously just 'cause there is a possibility it's caused by a delusion or psychosis (also completely ignorin the fact those who aren't schizophrenic are capable of experiencin psychosis or delusions too.)

N no, I don't give a fuck that they're sayin this about themselves, not to somebody else. It still says a lot about how they view schizospec people.

[party-of-one0202]

So I know it's "scary" and "disturbing" and "uncomfortable" to see someone else experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder or psychosis in general, but can y'all just for one single moment, try to imagine what the person actually experiencing it is feeling and going through?

Because I guarantee their fear and discomfort and emotional distress is greater than your distress from witnessing it

[this-is-anti-homeless]

Sharing this here because I'm fairly certain the average of homeless people who are affected by these conditions is greater than the average of housed people who are affected by these conditions. And I say this as a homeless person who is diagnosed with Bipolar Schizoaffective disorder and who has experienced episodes of psychosis in the past.

[crippy-tangerine]

Psychiatry is an extension of the carceral state and your adherence to the DSM5's rules won't save you from its oppression. Send tweet

[dead-mad]

The idea of separating out all the parts of the ways I experience the world differently to others into separate disorders seems ridiculous. How am I meant to pull apart what is meant to be a delusion and an obsession or if I feel like this because of a dissociative disorder or a psychotic one. You cannot draw lines through experiences like that, they all interact

[kosmogrl]

changing is scary but so is staying the same changing is scary but so is staying the same changing is scary but so is staying the same changing is scary but so is staying the samechanging is scary but so is staying the same changing is scary but so is staying the same

[misericordiia]

fun fact if your music is loud enough Thoughts Do Not Exist And You Are Calm. do not pay attention to your heart rate and do not accidentally hit pause

[transmutationisms]

that cop therapist post is probably not wrong (i don't know the stats offhand but i would not be surprised if there's a cop to psych professional pipeline, at least for jobs that don't require grad degrees) but it's also irritating that it's missing the more fundamental point that psychiatric institutions are carceral institutions and psychiatry as a discipline serves a carceral function. serve time in court mandated 'treatment' or serve time in jail / prison. act in a way deemed too aberrant and get medicated or institutionalised against your will. etc. this applies regardless of whether your psych or therapist trained as a cop or social worker or physician and it's why people who think "defund the police" means "replace them with psychiatric intervention" are not just foolish but dangerous. psychiatry is part of the carceral apparatus, structurally; its practitioners are cops, structurally; stop redirecting this to complain about individuals or specific career paths

[decompose1]

you are all too comfortable with implying a lack of intelligence is a moral failing and your intelligence and/or academic skill makes you in some way superior/a better person, sometimes even going as far as ""joking"" about "natural selection", that the nebulous "stupid people" should all die. this is a eugenicist thought pattern and you sound like a fascist, just so you know.

[decompose1]

cognitively & intellectually disabled people are real, more common than you think, and exist in online, in real life, and in your communities. we see it when you say things like that. not only do you have no way of knowing if the person you're talking about is one of us or if they're some kind of "acceptable target" to you, but when you equate intelligence to morality, you hurt us all the same. make space for the intellectually disabled in your activism or admit you're a fascist like the rest of them

[redstonedust]

yknow when you can tell that someones opinion on the homeless is dictacted by the fact they seem to imagine every homeless person just like. spawned in the back alleys of a city as a fully grown scruffy hobo with no life goals other than scrounging enough pocket change for a hit of Drugs™ . like you suggest that perhaps a homeless person was not always homeless and probably had a life and a childhood like the rest of us and they blank like they genuinely didnt consider it. like they forgot thats a human being too.

[schizoetic]

I tell people I have schizophrenia because I don't want people in my life that judge me on my mental health. Those who are disturbed aren't important and those who are important won't be disturbed

[karcinogen]

i think people should be nicer to schizophrenics

[karcinogen]

I feel like people reblogging and spreading this post around are completely missing the original context that this was a vent post and not a general statement. I am schizophrenic. I posted this after remembering a specific time someone actively made an effort to comb through my online profiles and look for reasons to claim I'm "problematic" in order to get me banned from one of the few places i feel safe talking in because they found me mildly annoying and wanted a more valid reason to hate me. I was a minor at the time.

A lot of people are reblogging this without the addition too which frustrates me because I feel like it's really important to bring attention to the specific sort of discrimination schizophrenic people are subject to.

People will see that you're visibly mentally ill, think that you're annoying and actively look for reasons to dislike you, leading to your presence being constantly fucking monitored and judged because everyone's looking for a concrete reason to hate you. That's what this post is about. this is not a general positivity post or a statement. This is an exasperated vent from a schizophrenic person who has been pushed to his fucking brink so many times.

This doesn't just apply to schizophrenia of course- this applies to other schizospec or psychotic disorders, this applies to personality disorders (ESPECIALLY CLUSTER B.) and this spplies to DID and OSDD and other dissociative disorders. Hell this applies to any even remotely stigmatized disorder. I've seen friends with nothing up with them except for mild autism be treated like this solely because someone found them annoying.

My point is that people should really think hard about why you may find these sorts of people annoying. Just really think about if they actually did anything wrong to you other than be annoying.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like my whole thing absolutely isn't "no one should take psych meds cause taking psych meds is wrong and bad", it's "everyone should be free to make any autonomous decision according psychiatric medication which is right for them without the risk of facing any coercion, restrictions or force from the institution of psychiatry"

[hexpatient]

the whole ideology of "irrationality" the way it means for Crazy people is one of the worst things ever to me. the idea of "crazy" in the way that "irrational" entails just means like. you are malfunctioning. you are having the Factually incorrect, inappropriate reaction to something that does not deserve it.

"irrationality" of a crazy person removes us from the dignity and reasoning of human nature that even allows us to have an "appropriate" reaction at all, and it fails to grapple with how and why people feel what they do by disregarding the possibility of circumstances that elicited it. instead, it decides that crazy people make no sense, so dont even try to understand us. we are not understandable, and we dont deserve to be understood. all of our reactions are the wrong ones because we are crazy, and our craziness makes us have the wrong reactions. (circle of logic)

its an incredibly efficient and convenient dehumanization, because it strips us of our right to be a subject that has a "legitimate" reaction to our circumstances at all, and is utilized in a backwards way of reasoning to dismiss any and all critical thinking or rational analysis or logic that we utilize about ourselves and our reality. because a crazy person is just irrational after all. it all goes in the garbage. thats what happened to me. it did not matter how smart or sound or sane i was when i explained why i know im being abused. they did not care, because i was already a Crazy person, therefore my reasoning is bad. period.

[crippy-tangerine]

I think we should actually talk about the level of privilege involved when we see people post online about their 24 hour psych hold. Which they come out of with comparatively minimal trauma and a bunch of "funny" stories about the other people locked up with them.

Because I want to de-center their voices for once. We hear about psych wards from that sort of perspective a lot- where the person has a short term stay for something like acute suicidality or depressive symptoms. And the experience they have is that of a brief "holiday" or an inconvenient day-long hold. And they meet "strange" and "properly mentally ill" people (to paraphrase their narrations).

So. What about these mentally ill people they meet on the ward, then? The people living on wards longer term? The people who live most of their adult lives inside closed psychiatric units? The people who will die on the ward? The people held against their will? The people who have been imprisoned, and the key thrown away? The people who aren't fully aware of the world around them? The people who are experiencing a different world of their own? The people who are so heavily medicated that they're barely awake? The people who are in so much distress that all they can do is scream and cry and fight back against staff? The people who have endless trauma from restraints, injected sedatives and lost autonomy? The people whose lives have been restricted to the monotony of ward rounds and medication time?

They're not stories for someone's tiktoks. They're not the backdrop to someone's 24 hour hold. They're real people. They're real and they matter. And their voices and lives need to be centred when we talk about psychiatric units.

There are people who live in psychiatric units (often against their will) for years. Decades. The majority of their lives, even. People die in psych wards. And their voices are often forcibly removed from these conversations- be it through dehumanisation, saneism, trauma, or the fact that they're often still behind the walls of a psych ward. Or because their lives have ended whilst imprisoned.

When we talk about anti-psychiatry, psych abolition and psych wards, I beg you, think of these people first. Remember them, uplift them and their stories. Centre them. Always.

It's a bigger story than a 24 hour window. It's about stories spanning weeks, months, years, decades.

A lot of people don't get the option to leave after 24 hours. To go voluntarily, willingly. To experience little to no trauma on psych wards. To have their bodily autonomy in tact.

So what I'm trying to say is... Please, please remember that behind every "quirky" 24 hour hold story, there are decades of pain, saneist violence, societal exclusion and psychiatric abuse. Zoom out. The picture is bigger, and the story is longer.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

advocate for nonverbal nonspeaking ppl without fall back on “many of them very smart n intelligent n achieve [thing speaking ppl would even have trouble achieving]”

bc great but what abt those who don’t

[woodsfae]

AppleTV needs to knock this shit off.