Brain zaps are great because you get to experience a power point slide transition in real life

really don't recommend stopping your antidepressants cold turkey after being on them for years 0/10 i am straight up not having a good time

How many people experience "brain zaps" from antidepressant withdrawals?

i do not like the brain zaps :(

Withdrawing from Antidepressants: A Woman's Personal Experience

Welcome to From Insults to Respect.  Regular readers to this blog know that I have some serious concerns about dealing with emotional experiences referred to as depression or melancholy with the so called antidepressants. Certainly, people should be free to make their own decision regarding whether or not to take these types of pills, and I recognize very intelligent people decide to take them.…

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Wish me luck, soldiers. I'm off my meds until I can pick them up and I'm having horrible brain zaps because of withdrawal o7

shivering for hours, days. for any reason

do you know how much that starts to hurt? how your whole body aches?

is the character injured on top of that? does the constant shaking jostle broken ribs, does it pull their stitches? will that be enough to drown out the full body ache or do they combine horribly?

Do you have any drawings of the prior solluxes from GOLDP1LOT?

Sorry it took so long to reply, I was making a reference pic for all the Solluxes! Also, we finally have a Mage face reveal. I do have a doc with information on all of them so I can answer any questions you've got about any of them and their Iterations, but certain stuff about them won't be revealed until later on the fic, so you'll have to keep reading

my possibly unpopular opinions on therapy/psychiatry

- Just like suffering is not inherent to womanhood, suffering is not inherent to humans. Just like it is not okay to just expect that women will be subjected to suffering, it is not okay to expect that it will happen to anyone and it's just the way things are.

- Therapy is not inherently wrong for trying to alleviate the suffering, but I fail to see the doctors acknowledging the fact that the suffering is a collectively shared experience, and suffering is caused by someone. Moreover it is the whole point of therapy to focus on just yourself, "take responsibility"(for the harm that was done to you?) and seeing what you can make do. Basically because again, doctors cant really tell their patients to go overthrow the gvt or divorce their shitty husbands. Thus endless copium instead of, yknow... something actually meaningful.

- Antidepressants arent inherently bad but they cant cure you. They are just psychoactive drugs. Caffeine, tobacco, cocaine, they all are psychoactive in one way or another, and your brain doesnt really care if the substance is legal, illegal or prescribed. It modifies the symptoms but it cannot actually cure you. Or something. If you struggle with depression/anxiety related issues, I would highly recommend that you try to look for a way to alleviate them that is not just you popping pills for 10 years in a row.

- Our society is purposefully built to fuck us up. Just like "dyslexia" is not a thing in societies that dont have a writing system, "ADHD" or "depression" or "anxiety" are non-syndromes, they show only in very specific circumstances. It is possible to reform the world so that it doesnt force suffering and disabilities onto people.

- Psychoactive drugs that actively alter people's neurochemistry and may lead to both psychological and physical dependency are catastrophically overprescribed and one day the big pharma will be held accountable for their crimes lol

- I repeat that I do not oppose psychiatric medicines as a concept. Psychiatric disorders fuck people up, I know it personally. BUT. Sorry but there is a difference between a socially-induced disorder like anxiety, and a disorder of a purely biological genesis like bipolar mania or schizophrenia. I dont think depression or anxiety are easy. But consider what, someone suffering from delusions in mania cannot CBT their delusions away, they basically have to be on meds. MAYBE think really hard of the pros and cons here. You are lucky to have a relatively healthy brain, dont wash it down the drain.

- Medicalization and profiting off of any suffering is highly concerning. The transgender pharma will also pay for their crime of persuading (otherwise healthy) people that they cannot exist and will literally kill themselves without unnecessary medications and surgeries.

- If you have agreed on me on the previous points but my opinion on transness triggered you, consider unbrainwashing yourself? Idk? Can't you put 2 and 2 together? These are literally the same kind of phenomena.

- I say it all as someone who has been on antidepressants for a long time, and also who knows many people who were on antidepressants for a long time. I've seen both huge benefits and huge debilitating side effects.

As a matter of fact I am also completely normal and can be trusted w

I feel like I need to die

fuck

I hate brain zaps I hate crying spells that last all day I hate nausea and stomach pain I hate the awful anxiety I hate the physical issues it causes I hate the ringing ears and the worse nightmares I hate panicking to the point I can’t breathe I hate the dizziness I hate the dissociation I hate the rapid mood swings I hate not being able to control my emotions at all I hate the intense suicidal thoughts I hate it all so much

Okay, I *hate* it when people suggest vitamin supplements when having a real medical issue. If you don't have chronic illnesses, fuck. off.

You forget to take your meds and get a headache. I forget to take my meds and have an intense sex dream about a man dressed as a cat.

We are not the same.

I found Turn Out The Lights on vinyl, everything is okay

Eddie does that thing where you turn your eyelids inside out (it’s actually what hellfire club use instead of a secret handshake). Steve screamed the first time he saw Eddie, dustin, Lucas and Mike pull the ‘handshake’ out when Steve was trying to take a group photo of them

In English you say you want something or want to do something & *want* is doing a lot of heavy lifting bc when you want something then don’t you want to make it yours. Grab it. In Norwegian you have “lyst” which my phone just autocorrected to lust and they probably related words that connect w some fuckin Freudian libido stuff (which turns out is not just about sex but a drive to want things I think?). So it’s a lust for sometbing I guess but what’s interesting is that there’s another word, “vil” (will?) so sometimes you want something but you don’t want it right. And in Norwegian you can say you have lyst but you don’t really vil. Or the other way around. So right you want but you don’t will. You lust but you don’t have the will. You hunger but you starve