Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

god i just want to not be here anymore. i'm a burden on everyone in my life.

everyone stop what youre doing and look at my dog and her beloved taco. literally the person that has kept me alive these past 7 years

Hey, shout out to systems with "frustrating" or "socially bad" traits.

systems who seem indecisive, "hot and cold", disloyal, dishonest, etc. to others due to subtle switches, passive influence, being median, amnesia barriers, etc. between headmates with very different opinions, wants, and moods

systems who have headmates with "scary" attributes/symptoms, like hallucinations, delusions, anger issues, hypersexuality, low/no empathy, selfishness, need for attention, etc. especially those afraid they're perpetuating the "evil alter" stereotype

systems who never know who's fronting. especially those with memory barriers, those who struggle with feeling any sense(s) of personhood, and/or those who struggle to keep close bonds with people due to this

systems who struggle with meltdowns, tantrums, outbursts, pathological demand avoidance, poor sense of social norms, and other tendencies/issues that make being social or just existing in public difficult

systems with fluctuating sexualities and/or triggers that make it difficult to remain with a partner/partners (or to date in the first place)

systems who infight in-system and have trouble making decisions without intense internal backlash

systems who have trouble keeping self care (and may go out of the house dirty/disheveled) due to other mental illness or due to frequent fronters being unmotivated, forgetful, or having sensory issues or triggers that interfere with self care tasks

systems whose "self defense" relies on people pleasing, avoiding stressors, getting overly defensive, or getting angrier than "reasonable"

You are loved, you are appreciated, you deserve to be a part of society, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to be understood and given patience... you deserve to be able to create, love, heal, be respected, be treated like your own age, to lead, to have a voice, to feel safe.

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i'm a little worried that my symptoms will get worse? but i genuinely think i'd rather have another full on three month episode than go on feeling sedated like a horse like this

so theyre taking me off of zyprexa, i just had my first half-dose tonight. i'm hoping maybe i'll stop gaining weight once i'm off of it

so theyre taking me off of zyprexa, i just had my first half-dose tonight. i'm hoping maybe i'll stop gaining weight once i'm off of it

i've seen posts talk about psychs restricting or withholding medication and want to add the opposite, there are psychs who push or require patients to take unneeded medication and overmedication is also a problem of autonomy not often brought up because it's done to patients where people consider it "necessary", like psychotic patients. we are then excluded from treatment programs or treatment itself for questioning this or refusing the medication. schizophrenic long-term patients have loss of brain tissue as a result.personally I have diagnosed neurological conditions now.

so both restriction of meds and overmedication should be considered same issue with lack of autonomy of the patient and there is not enough awareness of the effects of the medication, mostly because it's *assumed* the psych "knows best"

before my schizophrenia got bad, back when it was milder i should say, i used to get so annoyed at the whole 'delusional attachment' thing because i thought it was people co-opting the psychotic experience. but nowadays some of my introject alters feel SO much like their source that it really is kind of delusional, and it makes me think i was probably too harsh on other people.

my anhedonia is eating me alive so i’m making these mental illness memes to cope

i keep getting tingling along my shoulder blades like electricity. i think my wings might be trying to manifest but now is NOT a good time i am at work.

could you imagine? pov you're making french fries at your shitty minimum wage job and the chick making shakes next to you suddenly has a wingspan that reaches out across the entire fucking tiny store interior. feathers everywhere. itd be a disaster

Sometimes it feels like people don't really understand what social communication impairements can actually look like in autism. Sometimes it feels like people reduce it to "socially awkward" or "doesn't understand sarcasm" but they mean it in a more 'simple' and 'quirky' way.

And quite often I see "we're not the problem, it's NTs who can't communicate properly". And while communication can be a struggle for many regardless of NT or ND, this saying reduces the actual issues a lot of autistics face.

kill the lycanthrope in yourself [commission] still one of my own favorite artworks! Prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/weirdundead/reflection/

ough being a new alter sucks the others are being nice to me but i can tell they're not happy i'm here. i'm not even sure why they're bothered because it seems to just be me specifically, did i do something? other alters have split recently and seem to fit in just fine.

i almost just said "maybe its all in my head" and then realized how useless of a phrase that is in the context of an in-sys problem lol

yeah the trend of people pretending to hallucinate with the "aren't you worried the fumes will get to your head" audio also isn't funny

i wouldn't be so bothered if these posts weren't filled with comments making schizophrenia jokes so here's some facts

hallucinations are commonly caused by mental and neurological illness

hallucinations can feel very real

they can be very scary and even traumatizing

hallucinations can be lighthearted and even funny, but not when people that don't experience them are making the jokes

people of any neurotype could experience hallucinations for a variety of reasons, but people with psychosis can experience them near-constantly

hallucinations can cause harm

stop making fun of neurodivergent people. hallucinations are not a joke, they are a serious symptom of many illnesses.

tshirt that says "i joined human civilization and all i got was domesticated"