FREAKS ONLY

tea / mid 20s / queer / goth

[enbieboy]

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When guinea pigs say wheek wheek wheek. Reblog if you agree.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#if I had the grindset guinea pigs have with wheeking I'd be dead in a month

[shapeoftheday]

restless spirits

[nebulations]

[ID: Animated rendered art of multiple pinned butterflies in a frame. Their wings shiver slightly, and spectral white butterflies flap their wings along the edges of the frame. Shadow cuts over one corner of the frame, making two of the three butterflies glow brightly in the darkness. End ID]

[haredjarris]

Alex’s body has changed a bit lately, middle age hitting more like a forehead kiss than a train, and he certainly doesn’t mind it. Sharing this new, body-confident energy with Greg in studio can only be a good thing, right? Right?

🔑 🍋‍🟩 🥧

Click here to read. Please remember to always read and heed the warnings!

[hotvampireadjacent]

[ratty-writer]

english major brain: words can evolve and develop as a society goes on. the way a word is used is its definition. it's pointless to hold onto the idea of right vs wrong words human brain: THAT IS NOT WHAT LARP MEANS!!!!!

[creekfiend]

I've been trying to think of a way to lay this out for a while bc it is the #1 most common concern that I see expressed by people who are uncertain about antipsychiatry, like, by far, and it requires a sort of perspective reframe that can be hard for me to put words to. I've had like three ppl express some of these concerns in the last couple days alone, some of them good friends (hi Alex!) and I wanted to just make a public post about it, bc I think it trips a lot of people up.

People will ask me: how can I be antipsychiatry when I rely on the psychiatric system to obtain care? How can I oppose something on which I rely to stay alive? Which I think is really understandable, given the somewhat misleading name of the movement (and there's several names for it already, none of which really are illuminating to people outside those circles, which I think is a big communication problem. But I digress.)

When I say I am advocating for the abolition of psychiatry, I'm not saying I want to abolish access to care. What I am saying is that I want to abolish the institution of psychiatry as the gatekeeper of that care. Currently that's the only way you can access the care you need, and that's a huge part of the problem! It's like... of course it would be incoherent to say "you can't be anticapitalist if you rely on corporations to survive," because of course the system is designed so that we must rely on it.

So what I am advocating for is the replacement of psychiatry as the sole avenue of care with other models, models which prioritize autonomy and remove hierarchy and coercive control. Peer respite in place of involuntary institutionalization, informed consent models of acquiring medications rather than forcing people to go through medical gatekeepers who hold enormous power over them and largely do not see them as real people, etc. There are many, many forms that proposed alternative ways to access care can take.

I get it! I also take meds. I also have to rely on the systems that hurt me. For me, being antipsych is about saying "it is fucked up that we are forced to rely on these harmful, hierarchical systems to access care. We deserve something humane. We deserve to be the ones in control of our own treatment. We deserve to have our autonomy valued and protected and prioritized." Psychiatry does not offer us these things, and its structure at the core ultimately prevents it from doing so, due to its hierarchical nature & inherent power imbalances. This is broadly applicable to many of our current systems, and saying so is not the same as making an argument that we should simply not have any systems at all.

[tomato-puppy]

this is a pretty good explanation of what the movement is (and finally someone acknowledged that the term is very misleading)

the thing is that, the institution is also responsible for certifying the therapists and compiling the knowledge and monitoring medication research and all that... and the hierarchical component is embedded into this because it's also baked into research and scientific/medical academia... it would require a profound reform to change the way medical academia and the whole healthcare establishment works

[creekfiend]

yup! and the rest of academia too!

[innkmarie]

give him a moment

wondering where he's taking him

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you just teleported to the last game you played how is it going? {you're plot involved}

good

bad

great

awful

dead

I don't play games/results

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

Soma 😔

[kitkenk]

it's a little stuffy in here, sorry

[sin-djarin]

“I’m too old to—“

WRONG.

You are above ground and breathing.

Do the thing.

[alkemylabz]

Interesting mile-long fanfic/theorypost/xreader imagine! Have you considered using this button

It may look like a yummy Burger, but it is called a "read more"

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[plaquesandtangles]

X

[charactershoesfic]

happy first week of august to those who celebrate

[pjackk]

Can i be sensitive for 1 second or will i be tackled and killed