#actually schizophrenia

[sweetashe]

“I look like a schizophrenic”. What is your idea of a schizophrenic person? Are we violent and dangerous to you? Are we erratic and chaotic to you? Are we just another word to throw around for your jokes?

[schizophelia]

Happy World Schizophrenia Day! 💜

[cartoonscientist]

it isn’t canon*, but I think Peter Merkel Jr. aka Ragdoll from Secret Six is a very fun and accurate depiction of someone with complex childhood trauma and schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. he is clearly fucked up from his time spent in his father’s abusive cult and while he has one distinct hallucinatory episode during a very stressful time period (again, common for irl schizophrenics), more frequently stuff like his inappropriate affect, disorganized thinking, memory problems, inability to understand what’s going on around him from context or reliably process information, and difficulty with forming and maintaining close relationships impact his socialization or messes up his role in the mercenary team. he also has colorful and creative non-normative speech patterns and frequently makes unintentional jokes due to his unique way of thinking. he even wears a blank venitian mask as part of his supervillain costume as a nod to schizophrenic flat affect (in my head)! he’s also bigender and a trans enby (elective castration).

*well I mean, in the sense that Gail Simone has never actually said the words “Ragdoll is schizophrenic”, but I guess you could say that it’s canon in the sense that he very explicitly has hallucinations and identity issues typical of schizophrenia and is explicitly confirmed to be “insane”, “psychotic”, etc., which are kind of just cultural shorthand for falling somewhere on the schizo spectrum.

[221bluescarf]

Do you know when you're having a psychotic episode?

I know because I'm self-aware and figure it out myself

I know because other people convince me I'm having an episode

I don't know, other people know but they can't convince me

I don't know, and other people don't know either

something else (specify)

I don't have episodes (see answers)

Voting ended onJun 1, 2023

[thejewishphd]

I am once again on my knees begging yall to support psychotics/schizophrenics that have violent voices that tell them to do horrible things. My voice tell me to do unthinking things all day long from the time I get up to the time I go back to bed that evening and it takes all of my energy to not act on them. To be totally honest? I'm always afraid that one day I will hurt someone including my own kids because of my horrible voices and equally terrible delusions.

No not all of us are the stereotype but some of us are Kimberly and we'd like your support

[schizopyke]

People on tumblr really be like anti vaxxers of psychology though. You take minimal points about mental health and completely ignore expert opinions when you want your narrative to work. Its actually really damaging and I'm not here for it. I want people to be able to access a diagnosis and it's not the fault of a mentally ill person that they cant get it. The solution of a mentally ill person not getting the help they need is to give them resources to talk to an expert not to convince them that they have an illness in a web md article.

Many people tell me that you cant diagnose something like cancer because there are obvious differences. I agree. When my parents realized that I had been sick for weeks and took me to the doctor, the doctor told me I had cancer. They didn't look online and see that. Whenever I had hallucinations and delusions they checked to make sure it wasn't cancer again, and when I was admitted to the hospital for psychosis I was actually treated for it. If I had continued just looking up ways to do self care and "feel better" I would be dead. I would have killed myself. So would so many people with depression, bipolar I and bipolar II. And others in the mental health world. If someone has told you that help is too expensive and that it won't save you DONT listen. Your life is important and your parents and loved ones would rather have you than not. Later on I am going to repost this with resources to get mental healthcare at a lower cost. Please know that you should not trust anti psychiatry or anti psychology advocates.

A last note is that they are dividing psychiatry and psychology on purpose. Psychology includes psychiatry and psychiatry is informed by psychology. The reason these people split them is because they trust therapy due to the fact they feel like they do a form of self therapy. This is false. It's exactly like saying drinking lemon juice and uncooked egg whites is all you need for your immune system and anything else is "toxins." Psychiatry and therapy are supposed to be done together for best results. The current US health system is kind of like the opioid crisis in some rural communities. There may be better methods of pain management but due to poverty and other factors opioids are the easiest method. We recognize that this is bad, but we don't blame medicine for this. We recognize that this problem is best solved with medical professionals at the helm. They don't say that about psychology, why? Why the difference between the two? I honestly don't understand it, but I stand by people who are studying the science. Not people who deny the science.

[dysfucktion]

Shoutout to all my autistic schizophrenics!!! I love you!!!

[demonsingingmetosleep]

I’m going to email this to my therapist