#actually anxious

[gene-ceo]

trend that pisses me off

[hello-friends9500]

me irl

[ed-recoverry]

This post exempts you from any and all “If you don’t ___ this post, ____ will happen.” You are hereby immune to it all. You are now protected! Be free!

[my-heads-gonna-explode]

Hi. If you support disability accommodation, but don't think panic attacks, insomnia, nausea or chest pain from anxiety, or other anxiety-disorder-related symptoms are an acceptable reason for someone to take breaks from school or work... Then you don't actually support disability accommodation.

(And it probably wouldn't take much to get you to apply that same ableism to other conditions, too.)

[sickfrr]

[prof-grace-aspen]

I want to add to the post I just reblogged about delusions and how to help people with them, but op was specifically schizophrenic, and the last time I tried to share a related story on a post like that, a different OP got extremely angry that I didn't have an identical disorder to them and accused me of derailing, so I'm making a new post.

I have severe anxiety. The things you can believe when you are going through an acute anxiety attack or panic attack can be so extreme they can be classified as delusions. I've been convinced I poisoned myself, I've been convinced I had rabies, I've been convinced a building was going to burn down, I've been convinced my blood was full of bug eggs that were going to hatch and kill me.

Doctors and family members who have helped me the most were people who took those fears seriously, who examined me no matter how irrational my fear was, and who told me why, based on what they observed, my fears were unlikely to be true.

Instead of "you can't possibly have rabies", it was "the dog is vaccinated, so it can't have rabies, and the skin where it nipped you is not broken."

Instead of "Of course your blood isn't full of bug eggs" it was "bug eggs would have hatched by now" which was so coldly logical it completely snapped me out of my panic.

Instead of "I'm sure you didn't poison yourself", the doctor looked at the bug spray and the ingredients and listened to how I used it and said "based on your exposure, you haven't been poisoned".

[thisis--ableism]

Solidarity experience! I want to be a nun, my faith has always been very important to me, but nuns are a bit strict, and I’m a picky eater. When I went on a one week visit to a monastery I was worried they’d be mad at me for my picky eating, everyone is mad at me for that. My picky eating doesn’t really follow rules I guess, just this arbitrary “badness” about certain foods and I can rarely if ever overcome and eat it, I don’t know if it’s my autism or ocd that causes the picky eating. My family and friends have always treated it like a burden and something I need to grow out of. So I thought the nuns would be the same, why should I expect different? During my stay one of the sisters who was in charge of plating my food (I ate up in my room for most meals) she asked me if I disliked anything I was given. I decided to tell the truth, I told her I don’t like corn but I will eat it (and by eat it I mean choke it down) she responded by immediately telling me I won’t see it on my plate again. This surprised me. Why did she care if I liked the food or not? I said I’d eat it. She then asked if there was anything else I didn’t like and so I told her that I’m not a fan of chicken with the bones in or fish, and she just accepted that. And I never saw those things on my plate for the remainder of my stay. I know it’s small, but it meant so much to me that for the first time, my food preferences were respected and not treated as a burden or an insult.

another experience with these nuns.

I was on call with my VD (vocations directress, she is in charge of determining if it be okay if I enter the community) she knows I have ADHD and anxiety (the autism and ocd are not diagnosed but I am in the process of that) and she asked me how my ADHD effects me, so that she can help if need be. This shocked me, no one has asked me that before, I almost cried because of how nice she was being. I explained to her what executive dysfunction is and instead of judgment or being told I was lazy she said “that makes sense” and she has asked how she can help with my anxiety, again something I’ve never been asked about. I’m always given unsolicited advice or asked what I do to help it, but Ive never been offered support before. I’m just happy and shocked that the first support I’m getting are coming from the people I thought would be stricter on me. My desire to be a nun has grown because of these lovely ladies and I’m excited to see where it goes

This is solidarity! I hope that you are able to enter the community and follow your faith, anon!

[naareblogs]

Being disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent really teaches you it's not only a matter of having time but of the characteristics of the moment

Even if you have time, it depends on:

Your mood

Your energy

Your level of pain

When you are depressed, in pain, anxious or tired, it really doesn't matter if you have time to do stuff, because the quality is not the ideal for you to be making stuff

So don't be hard on yourself if you haven't' "been productive". Focus on what you can do in the moment, rather on what you could. Sometimes all you can do is survive, and that's ok!