#schizophrenic spectrum

[grub-muncher]

[mylittlemesseduphead]

it sucks how people dont let you talk about your psychotic experiences and immediately just go "see a doctor about that" or "i am not qualified to help with this" like i actually am not asking you to fix this i just need someone to listen to me because this experience is incredibly isolating and lonely and scary and no one seems to be able to deal with me when i really just need a friend. like why is it ok to talk about your autism or adhd struggles but as soon as it is psychosis it is chucked in the too hard basket.

[psychotic-tbh]

Stop saying…

“Psychotic/Schizophrenic” when you mean: unpredictable, unrestrained, unreal, etc.

“Bipolar” when you mean: polarized, scattered, fickle, unstable, etc.

“Delusional” when you mean: unrealistic, unreasonable, close-minded, stubborn, etc.

“[insert “R” slur in relation to intellectual disabilities]” when you mean: unreasonable, ridiculous, scatterbrained, immature, etc.

“OCD” when you mean: particular, neat, overbearing, etc.

“Narcissistic” when you mean selfish, abusive, manipulative, etc.

Note: I’m NOT saying that these are synonymous. This is also not an exhaustive list.

[openmindpsych]

shoutout to people who don't speak in complete monotone but still have a smaller range of emotional expression than others.

shoutout to people who often get misinterpreted because they express a lot of different emotions in very similar ways.

shoutout to people who have the "wrong" reaction to a situation (e.g. laughing when bad things happen) and get treated worse for it.

shoutout to people who have exaggerated emotional expression and gets seen as overdramatic or manipulative.

shoutout to people who struggle to express their emotions in the "right way".

[schizoetic]

People see schizophrenic people without homes on the street but don't witness the slow descent into insanity that brought them there. People see us yelling at vehicles but don't see us in our grandparents truck as a young child with a wide innocent smirk as the wind blows our hair. People see us sleeping over dirty cardboard but don't see us sleeping under lit Christmas trees with our favourite present in our grasp. People see us saying odd things and acting strangely but they don't see us shrieking and jumping into a lake before warming up beside a comforting fire. People don't see our first tooth we pull, the pencil marks we made on doorframes to document our growth, our first self-made tree-house so small that we could barely fit in it, our first colourful drawing, first friend, first anything. They overlook it all and if it's not ignorant it's grotesque. People aren't there for our middle-school or high school graduation. They haven't had hours of engaging conversations with us while rain plummets outside. Most aren't there for anything but snippets of a complex life. They see a person in dire need of help and ignore. There's no thought placed into who we can be, who we were, and hell… even who we are.

[theoriginalcatfan]

Mental health advocates when someone has a disorder that is relatively harder to romanticize

[muzzledwerewolf]

I came across a tiktok stating that schizo/psychotic spectrum people would loose grey brain matter if they don't take antipsychotics.

That seemed extremely odd to me so I took my time and actually read those papers and listened to clinicians talking about the side effects of antipsychotics. Funnily enough it's not the disorder that causes most of the loss of grey brain matter, there is some grey matter you loose with the onset of the symptoms (as most disorders cause a shift in your brain) but most of the loss and shrinkage of your brain is actually caused by taking long term antipsychotics.

I hate how psychotic people get treated when they don't want to take meds. I don't care about fitting in society, I don't really mind my schizophrenia symptoms. The people around me can handle me perfectly fine, and most importantly I can handle myself perfectly fine without meds that make me into a sedated robot.

[sayleetaq909]