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neuroticboyfriend · 2 years
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you are not your intrusive thoughts, but even if you were, you would still be deserving of humanity and health. you are still a person. you deserve life and all the necessities that come with it. simply by existing.
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voidxbrat · 2 years
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This is some love going out to other people with severe mental/developmental/etc disabilities! I mean severe like, in of need full-time assistance or *a lot* of accommodations. I mean people who legitimately can’t always control or understand their own behaviors. People who cannot live on their own, or maybe can’t make their own decisions. The people who get left out of everything, by everyone, even those who say to support people with stigmatized mental illnesses and not very nice symptoms and behaviors. Because, for all everyone shouts that they support these things - you really show you don’t very often (even on this site). Something people on here still really need to understand and support, is what *serious* and *severe* mental/developmental/etc disability really is.
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aardvaark · 2 years
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people really love using psychotic disorders as a joke or trope or plot point in fiction, but even other mentally ill people are just fine with stigmatising psychosis. i’ve heard so many stories of psychotic ppl being in psych wards and fellow patients have said "at least i’m not crazy" or "before coming here, i thought all ppl in a psych ward would be weird and insane". of course, they inevitably slip up and say it to someone who they don’t realise has psychosis. when ppl watch tv and laugh at the "crazy", "nonsensical", "strange" character… what they never seem to think about is that someone else in the room might be psychotic and too afraid and upset to speak up. and then there’s all the times where you call someone you don’t like "delusional" or "psychotic" because to *you* it means stupid and evil. to psychotic people it means that their loved ones are scared of them or hate them.
just think before you speak. and no, you probably wouldn’t know whether or not someone has experienced psychosis. so don’t assume.
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mischiefmanifold · 5 months
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a lot of people like to, when someone describes themself as "broken", vehemently insist that "you're not broken!!"
so shout out to those of us who ARE broken
those who survived horrific things they never should have had to endure
those whose bodies are permanently fucked up, whether from abuse or physical disability
those who have such severe mental illnesses that people don't treat us as human
it is not a bad thing to be broken
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(TW for mentions of ableism, abuse, horror, and old asylums.)
I hate how asylums (specifically, old ones from like the late 1800's-early 1900's) are portrayed in horror media.
The problem isn't horror's use of asylums themselves. Asylums were extremely cruel and abusive places that stripped disabled people of agency, locked them up like animals, and subjected them to violence on a daily basis, with the guise of "helping" them or their families. Asylums deserve to be the subjects of horror and dread. They really are terrifying, vile institutions.
But when horror media uses asylums, they always make it look like it's the patients who are scary, not the asylum itself or the staff who routinely abuse them. "Oooh, look at this spooky evil psycho in a straightjacket! Look at this insane monster crying in a corner!"
Because, you know, a schizophrenic patient's drawing or a person who hallucinates is much more evil and spooky than the guards restraining and beating the patients who have no idea why this is being done to them. /s
I want to see an asylum horror that focuses on, like, the actual horror. One that doesn't villainize mentally disabled people, but instead portrays the cruelty of those who claim to protect them.
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A little rule of thumb
Don't punish the behavior you want to see
I don't care if you think it's suspicious when someone with NPD, ASPD or any other stigmatized disorder is making an effort to do the best they can. Not all kindness is manipulation. Not all self defense is gaslighting. Not everything has a secret motif behind it.. That's your trauma to sort out, NOT OURS. Quit projecting that onto us.
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laurentlemonke · 4 months
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I just wanted to say that I support people with disorders/disabilities/illnesses/whatever. You guys are welcome here. No fakeclaimers on this blog. We don't do that shit here. Whether you suffer from a more "common" or rare disorder, I literally don't care. Your illness doesn't define you. Even if you suffer from a stigmatized disorder (like ASPD/NPD/schizo/DID). I myself am afflicted with conditions most neurotypical people would find unusual, so I understand what it's like to be misunderstood by others. You don't have to worry about that here. And if you don't like what I talk about, feel free to mute the tags. I guess it could be triggering to some. Remember that you always belong somewhere.
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adhbabey · 2 years
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Gonna be honest,, not here for throwing other stigmatized disorders under the bus, just so mine isn't as stigmatized.
DID/OSDD-1+ may deserve acceptance and respect, but that's not something I'm willing to have if there's just more disorders such as personality disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc. just thrown to the wayside.
These people are just like me, seen as bad guys and villains, fakeclaimed, attacked, previously locked up, and some of us being associated with criminals,, these people with disorders are like my siblings, something I am willing to help protect.
That's why I'll never be on the abled/neurotypical side of things, if they don't accept all of us. I'm not going to be a "good", palatable or polite system, I'm not going to be morally pure, I'm not going to be what they try to force us to be.
I have solidarity with those who have other kinds of stigmatized disorders. I will never be on your side, if you bring these people down. I am just like them, everything that ableists hate. I am "one of them", one of the scary ones, one of the dangerous ones.
I will stand with those of us who've always been demonized, and I will fight for the right to our voices. We deserve a voice. We deserve autonomy. We deserve rights. And I'll be here to take that by force, in whole.
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queerfemboybf · 2 years
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why you should stop saying "narcissist abuse" 💭
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purplehalnw · 1 year
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For the love of god stop using the word narcissistic/narcissist/narcissism as an adjective for when someone is acting like an asshole just say "selfish" or "egotistical". You don't need to be a narcissist to be an asshole. NPD is an actual mental disorder and when you use the term narcissist so casually you are furthering the stigma against ppl with this disorder.
Also btw narcissistic abuse is not real, that's just emotional abuse. The abuse ppl can receive from those with NPD can also be received from those without NPD. For instance, you wouldn't call yourself being abused by an autistic person as "autistic abuse".
And just in general, the person who abused you didn't do so because of some mental disorder, they did it because they chose to.
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mosscoveredclown · 2 years
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(reading a comic) Wow, this character is really interesting because they have a complex grasp on morals and ethics, which causes them to frequently reanalyze their situation/perspective on events, and actively tries not to chalk things up to Bad VS Good! They are always undergoing harsh realizations and continue to try doing better when they know they've done something to hurt someone close to them!
Comment Section: Wow this character obviously has [x] mental illness because they're acting like a very bad person
Me:
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neuroticboyfriend · 2 years
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if you're against recovery and humane treatment towards people with paraphilic disorders or paraphilic intrusive thoughts: that's ableist.
illness doesn't dictate what rights or basic needs someone should have. it doesn't define how good or bad of a person someone is, or what they'll do. rights and basic care aren't conditional.
all mentally ill people have human rights and deserve support. there are no exceptions, whether you're comfortable with that or not.
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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.
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aardvaark · 2 years
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if you claim your blog is allegedly mentally health friendly and and you literally regularly tag all other common triggers. and you post something that will likely trigger people with psychosis or dissociation:
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ablednt · 10 months
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Like I know it's nitpicky and at some point you just need to consider someone's intentions more than what they say but I still just do not feel affirmed, recognized, or cared about when positivity posts about people with 'scary disorders' tack on DID.
Like I get it, I really do, there is so much solidarity between the ways that plurality and psychosis and other "scary" symptoms are treated by ableists, our communities intersect and have rich cultures and share the same mad pride history
But when you say stuff like "every single person with DID" (there are much fewer people with DID who consider themselves one person than systems with DID who you CANNOT separate from their multiplicity) it gets a little obvious you aren't really listening to the system community.
If you want to address specifically the medically recognized part of the community (and also keep the point of the post about stigmatized symptoms) just say something like people with dissociative disorders. Don't single out systems if you're not going to even hint at respecting our identities.
Like it gives "people with autism :(" energies and even still in psychological settings systems are fighting for their rights not to have literal eugenics "you have to become singlet or you won't have access to care" forced on them, a known abuser who lost his license for physically abusing patients is still frequently listened to and taught because singlets want to believe we're broken.
please just listen to systems, I don't actually care if you don't word everything clearly but when that's all I ever see from singlets it makes the point that you don't see us as we are very obvious and in mad pride spaces that's incredibly frustrating.
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~Comparisons Between cPTSD/BPD/ADHD/Depression (The four disorders I’m personally diagnosed with.)~
ALL SHARE: Emotion dysregulation, alterations in self-esteem
3 SHARE: feelings of hopelessness/worthlessness, sleep disturbances, S. ideation, increased risk of eating disorders and substance abuse, memory loss, intense feelings of shame/guilt, dysregulation of attention, difficulty controlling anger
cPTSD: Intrusive thoughts, avoidant behavior, hypervigilance, s. ideation, low self-esteem, feelings of hopelessness/worthlessness, interpersonal issues, emotion dysregulation, frequent nightmares, flashbacks, dissociation, paranoia, feelings of emptiness, sleep disturbances, memory loss, self-harm, hallucinations, delusions, intense feelings of shame/guilt, dysregulation of attention, developed by trauma
cPTSD&BPD: Emotion dysregulation, interpersonal issues, intrusive thoughts, feelings of emptiness, dissociation, self-harm, s.ideation, hallucinations, delusions, intense feelings of shame/guilt, memory loss, trauma plays a part in development
BPD: Emotion dysregulation, fluctuating self-esteem, interpersonal issues, black/white thinking, intrusive thoughts, impulsivity, fear of abandonment, feelings of emptiness, feelings of hopelessness/worthlessness, dissociation, self-harm, s. ideation, difficulty controlling anger, hallucinations, delusions, intense feelings of shame/guilt, increased risk of eating disorders and substance abuse, sensory sensitivities, memory loss, developed by a combination of trauma and genetics
BPD&ADHD: Impulsivity, emotion dysregulation, genetics contribute to development, sensory sensitivities, increased risk of eating disorders and substance abuse, difficulty controlling anger, memory loss, fluctuating self-esteem
ADHD: Impulsivity, emotion dysregulation, attention dysregulation, hyperfocus, genetic origin, sensory sensitivities, increased risk of eating disorders and substance abuse, difficulty controlling anger, stimming/fidgeting, memory loss, executive dysfunction, sleep disturbances, fluctuating self-esteem, anhedonia, time blindness
ADHD&Depression: alterations in self-esteem, anhedonia, attention dysregulation, increased risk of eating disorders and substance abuse, difficulty controlling anger, time blindness, sleep disturbances
Depression: Low mood, low self-esteem, anhedonia, attention dysregulation, increased risk of eating disorders and substance abuse, difficulty controlling anger, time blindness, intense feelings of shame/guilt, feeling physically slowed, s. ideation, feelings of hopelessness/worthlessness, weight gain/loss, emotion dysregulation, sleep disturbances
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