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schizopositivity · 11 months

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Ever notice how every time you hear "schizophrenic", "psychotic" or "hearing voices" in the wild it's tied to violent crimes, scary people, mean people or horror movies? And never people trying to challenge the stigma around schizophrenia and psychosis?

#schizophrenia #mental illness #nd #neurodivergent #schizophrenic #psychosis #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #mental health #mental health stigma #sanism #tw sanism

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selectivechaos · 10 months

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do not laugh at people for uncommon phobias

your phobias are not embarrassing. people can have phobias of absolutely anything, and they can be really precise and something that other people would think is strange to be scared of. your fears are valid feelings. you shouldn't have to be ashamed, but many people do not know about phobias beyond the common ones.

if it's something you don't understand because you've never seen it before, don't laugh at it.

they're not "being silly",

they can't "just get over it"

they need actual help, rather than unprofessional exposure therapy

they're experiencing real real fear

people with common phobias get sympathy; people with uncommon phobias get ridiculed at the worst possible moment: when they're in a state of fear.

so i repeat: don't laugh at them. 🌹🌹

#fun fact: people with sm may have specific phobias/other anxiety disorders #sm tag #phobias #mentalheathawareness #mental health stigma #sanism tw #madpunk

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keezybees · 2 months

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My book is out today!! I wrote about my experiences with bipolar 1, including mania, psychosis, depression, stigma, treatment, and self-acceptance. Silver Sprocket did an incredible job making this a beautiful book, and I'm so happy to share it with you 💛

It's sort of my way of reaching out past the stigma, and to try to connect with people despite it. I hid it for so long, and it still feels both scary and freeing to talk about it publicly, but every time someone says they felt seen, or that they're better able to understand a loved one, I feel joy. Partly because it means I'm not just crazy all by myself, and partly because all most of us want is to be loved and accepted, and I hope this book can help make that dream more real.

You can find Sunflowers at the Silver Sprocket store (here) or you can request it at your local bookstore or comic shop.

#bipolar disorder #bipolar #mental illness #mental health #mania #depression #psychosis #hallucinations #delusions #comics #comic books #comic book art #autobio #autobio comics #autobiographical #mental health stigma #mental illness stigma #stigma

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bisexualseraphim · 2 months

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Me: If, hypothetically, a person’s trauma causes them to become severely mentally ill and that illness makes them potentially difficult or even harmful to be around, wouldn’t that mean that we as a society should therefore focus on preventing that type of trauma and encourage compassion and recovery for these people to reduce the risk of the cycle continuing?

“Narc abuse” mfs: Everyone I deem as having this rare personality disorder that is notoriously difficult to diagnose and psychiatrists often refuse to treat is a soul-sucking demonic Incubus that should be skinned alive

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voidxbrat · 2 years

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Calling the symptoms of a severe mental illness a “red flag” is extremely fucking ableist.

#severe mental illness #actually mentally ill #stigmatized disorders #mental health stigma #ableism #aria #personality disorder #psychotic disorders #schizo spectrum #neurodivergent #dissociative disorder #trauma disorder

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kringlepringle · 6 months

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"lol my intrusive thoughts are telling me to default dance in public"

oh yeah? mine make me scratch at my skin and repeat "shut up" in my head over and over to block out the images of me murdering and raping people. mine show me graphic images of me and my family getting shot, cut open, and tortured.

im getting irritated man.

#intrusive thinking #instrusive thoughts #mental health #stigma #mental health stigma #digital art #digital painting #art #digital sketch #anxienty #generalized anxiety disorder #irritated

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frogsforthefrogwar · 1 year

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We talk about how people who experience intrusive thoughts aren't bad people because the thoughts "aren't really them" and thats all good but like shout out to people who genuinely do struggle with violent, manipulative, or any other negative urges.

Thoughts are not actions. If you genuinely struggle with wanting to do harm but everyday make the choice not to then I think that's amazing.

I might not believe in good or bad people because I think morality is more complicated than that, but if you really pressed me I honestly believe that someone who wants to hurt people but doesn't is a better person than someone who doesn't hurt people simply because they have no desire to.

#abelism #mental health #mental health stigma #intrusive thoughts #anger issues

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janersm · 1 year

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Fat shaming anyone is inexcusable. Fat shaming someone with an eating disorder is unforgivable.

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awbrainno · 1 year

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Listen, I'm not saying that no person with NPD has ever been abusive. I'm just saying that when an abuser has anxiety, we don't call it Anxious Abuse and form a whole movement around warning people to stay away from those dangerous anxious abusers.

#npd #narcissistic personality disorder #mental health stigma #my personality disorder doesn't make me evil and neither does anyone else's actually

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schizopositivity · 11 months

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Can people please stop comparing the stigma of their widely recognized mental illnesses to psychosis/schizophrenia? I understand there is stigma of other mental illnesses too, but that's a lot more talked about and debunked. When I make posts about my illness and community specifically I don't appreciate you derailing it to include your illness that doesn't face the same stigma.

People looking at you weird isn't the same as people filming you and posting it for laughs, people attacking you because they see you existing as a threat, and calling the police for showing symptoms you can't control. You can't convince me that the stigma around psychosis and schizophrenia doesn't exist or is the same as the stigma of every other mental illness. I see it every day, I've experienced it myself, I don't share my illness publicly because I fear for my own physical safety and humanity.

Here are some examples I have naturally come across on YouTube comments recently, people don't usually fight against these and they are the norm: [TW: sanism, serial killer mention, demonic possession mention, forced medication, forced hospitalization]

We don't commit most violent crimes in the world. We are not inherently violent. But society's belief that this is true and that we should all be locked up for the rest of our life is still believed widely today. This is what I am advocating against. This is what I want changed in the world and at the very least in the neurodiversity community. We just want to be seen as humans, please do not make this about other mental illnesses.

#schizophrenia #schizo-spec #schizo #psychosis #psychotic #mental illness #nd #neurodivergent #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #mental health #mental health stigma #tw sanism #tw demons #tw possesion #tw serial killers #tw forced medication #forced hospitalization

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selectivechaos · 9 months

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situational mutism assumptions.

still seeing posts that say “don’t use nonverbal; use selective mutism instead as a phrase” uh, no you shouldn’t. you shouldn’t co-opt a whole disorder as a neat little phrase to use for when you can’t speak.

seeing people say they wanna “go selectively mute” like it’s a lifestyle choice for when you don’t want to speak to someone. this is so harmful, because it makes lives of selectively mute people more unsafe when others assume we ‘do it’ because we don’t want to speak to them.

seeing people say they ‘grew out of it’.

seeing people say they did x nice thing for their friend with sm “and then they spoke to me!” like there’s a reward system.

hate when people around me act like me speaking to them is their achievement. no it’s not. it’s mine and i get to decide whether it’s an achievement or not. i get to decide how i feel about my voice and vocality.

🌹🌹

#situational mutism #selective mutism #mentalheathawareness #sm tag #mental health stigma

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keezybees · 1 year

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March 30th is World Bipolar Day! Sunflowers is my new autobio comic about what having bipolar disorder 1 with psychosis is like for me, and what it's like living with the stigma. This was definitely the scariest, most emotionally-difficult comic I've ever made (and the most honest).

It’s 22 pages, and you can download it on Itch.io: https://keezyyoung.itch.io/sunflowers

#bipolar disorder #bipolar #mania #mental illness #mental health #comics #autobio comics #depression #hypomania #psychosis #mental health stigma #comic art #comic panels

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neuroticboyfriend · 9 months

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struggling with mental health does not make you a bad person. having an illness or disability is morally neutral. and even if you do bad things, you deserve support. mental health care is a human right. and there is always hope, for both our wellbeing and who we want to be.

#softspoonie #morality #mental health #mentally ill #mental illness #sanism #ableism #anti ableism #disabled #disability #stigma #mental health stigma #mental health support #human rights #disability rights #disabled rights #stigmatization

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malencholic-nyx · 11 months

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My parents whenever I try to talk about mental health...

Depression? What's that? You have a roof over your head and food on the table, what more do you need to be happy?

You're not crazy. You're just overreacting. Now, stop being dramatic and get back to work.

#what the actual fuuuuuck #like seriously #mar jaon mai???#mental health stigma #every desi parents ever #Sarcasm #desi culture #desiblr #mentally fucked #gen z life #gen z kids #gen z post

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bisexualseraphim · 5 months

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Oh wow Criminal Minds demonising the autistic, the intellectually disabled, and the mentally ill. What a shock. This has never happened before. Wonder why I’ve always hated this show so much

#Mandy Patinkin was so right for leaving #criminal minds #ableism #sanism #autism #actually autistic #autistic #neurodiverse #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #mental health stigma

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chronicsymptomsyndrome · 16 days

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Getting really tired of seeing “mental health advocates” vilifying mental health conditions, especially narcissistic personality disorder. Please fucking stop

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