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Tumblr is currently serving me an ad for "Voda, the LGBTQ mental health app" offering "daily meditations, self-care and AI advice" and as a therapist I am begging you not to download an app where an AI tries to help you with your mental health. Please do not. They tried to have an AI chatbot counsel eating disorder patients and it told them to diet. That shit is not safe. Do not talk to an AI about your mental health please. You don't need to talk to a professional but talk to a PERSON.
Edited to add: OK, it's been a long day and I wrote this when I only had the information that was in the ad. It looks like they may not actually have a chatbot, but something that just... churns out pre-programmed advice? That's genuinely a lot safer! But calling it "AI advice" feels a little misleading. This app may be perfectly fine and safe to use, but should probably stick to the fundamentals that people want from a mental health app and not try to use AI hype to market, since the intersection of AI and mental health support is VERY DICEY and bad shit has happened there before. And you should probably do further research on how they are using your data, since that is also an area where mental health support apps have gone bad before.
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last night i got home kind of tipsy and very much in tears and my mother told me the force you exert to keep someone in your life is proportional to the force with which they will leave your life. if you have to fight tooth and claw to keep them, their leaving will be just as hard, just as harsh, and just as definite.
#she said it like a law. its just momentum.#also she told me to get a therapist and start archery ASAP bc i need to get it together#and also she said even granting that this person u were in love w was So Special . as in hot motorcycle-riding iranian masc lesbian in ldn#they arent the only one on earth and that once i start my proper adult life outside of studies etc etc i will probably no longer live in th#UK. she said most non straight iranians u would like have left the country anyway . where do you think they went? theyre out there#and also she asked me to imagine how many hot gay iranians there may be in italy or amsterdam or smth and i was like ok points 😭 maybe#ur right. anyway i was having a feeling of dread bc crying into the arms of ur strict asian mother while buzzed usually results in#death chaos destruction etc in the next few days but actually i think maybe she has genuinely changed as a person and the fear is#unwarranted#anyway i need to eat breakfast and study w the date person i met yesterday#they are so nice ??? genuinely so so sweet i dont feel attracted to them at all omg i genuinely think i have a thing for hot evil ppl 😭#but we could b besties . theyre a lot more romantic than the ex situationship person too like generally . ugh they should be perfect but#alas it appears i am shallow as fuck or potentially a lesbian actually#OH THEY MIGHT ALSO BE POTENTIALLY A LESBIAN BTW#i think i just tend to not date cis ppl entirely by accident#....feel free to rb if u want btw sorry for the rant
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I understand now. I understand all of it.
All those times politicians claimed something was "too complicated" "not that simple" "we don't have the money" it's all lies to keep us complacent.
They did it about the situation is Israel. "It's too complicated" everyone said. It didn't look complicated when I did my own research, away from those shitty think pieces talking down to me. Israel was a state built off the blood of Palestinians, and they simply do not want you to think about it. Because there is oil in the middle east and Israel is our only "Ally"
Wow, so complicated! The complicated part being that our media is tricking us into thinking this is so complex so they can be evil in plain sight: yes, so complicated of a situation!!
And today I wake up to find that the House of Representatives (the lowest level of US government) has passed a bill offering 14 billion to Israel! It will go to the Senate to vote. Wow, billion with a B huh? I got a question for you.
Where the fuck did we get enough money to fund genocide? Where the hell was all this money when it comes to supporting the Americans you politicians claim to be representing? Where was this money for free college, universal Healthcare, covid precautions, the climate crisis??
"It's just too complicated! You'll make us do cuts on other programs! You'll make us raise taxes!! Think of the taxes!!!"
Then where did this money come from? Oh, the IRS, the fucking company that handles our taxes??? Yeah????? That was an option? Why wasn't it an option before but it is now? Were they over funded and we just didn't notice until now? Or are you taking advantage of the situation to cut funding to another service you hate?? The point being: if they really want something, they can find the fucking money. They haven't because they don't want to.
It's never been complicated. It's their job to move money around. It's their fucking job to raise our taxes and provide for us, but the only people they truly represent are the ones filling their pockets with lobby money. They could have done this long ago, given us what we've been demanding, but they coddled us and said it was too complicated and our baby brains couldn't handle it. And God forbid you be a woman!! That means you're double unable to understand!
Enough. Fucking enough. Every year congress votes to increase their wages and refuses to raise our minimum wage. Every year they take advantage of their medical insurance and benefits they get for "representing" us when nearly every adult I know is left to suffer with their conditions: untreated sicknesses, chronic conditions, the depression that looms over us because we live in the most wealthy country in the world but we can't make ends meet and our government is more concern with funding armies that feeding and housing us
Politics was never complicated. They just told us it was. To shut us up. To make us feel young and idealistic and stupid. And we fell for it. And now evil is moving through the wills of our leaders IN OUR FUCKING NAMES to support a genocide in the middle east. Their only crime was being born on that land. Their only crime is being Arab. That's not a fucking crime.
Our system isn't complicated. It's working as intended. Keep the people blind and claim that it's too hard, leave all the details to them. But we are smarter than they are. We are informed. The world is connected like never before and I refuse to let their propaganda ever reach me again.
Hold them accountable. Know their names. Write it in the history books. Let their legacy be known to the end of times.
Be loud about your anger. Go to protests. Write your reps to tell them your vote is on the line. And for God's sake vote in the damned elections!
THE IDEA THAT YOUR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER IS PROPOGANDA. THEY WANT YOU TO FEEL USELESS. THEY WANT YOU TO GIVE UP SO THEY STAY IN POWER.
They want you to think it's complicated. It never has been. Be loud. Vote. Use your right to protest. Use your right to free speech. Use your right to petition. Next Tuesday is election day. Make it fucking count.
#american politics#free palestine#Rika rants#Don't tell me to calm down it's freaking me out that you're not freaking out#social justice#What else can I put here?? That I'm tired? That I'm pissed? That I'm wanting to yell to Biden's face that he's a murderer???#My therapist told me to stop looking at the news for my mental health and I don't feel I get that luxury due to you know#Don't stop talking about Palestine
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can we stop the trend of putting traumatized and mentally unstable characters into romantic relationships as their “happy endings”?
#this is about catra but it’s also about hunter#THIS IS NOT WHAT THEY NEED.#they don’t need a badass girlfriend they need ✨THERAPY✨#stop acting like romance is a cure to mental health issues#it’s such a harmful message to send to kids#again props to steven universe future for being one of the only children’s shows that actually promote therapy#steven gets with connie ofc but he also takes the necessary steps to actual healing like seeing a therapist and moving out of his hometown#anyway yeah#as a psych major this trope kills me every time#i just had to rant#spop critical#toh critical
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Live reaction of chapter 145 brought to you by yours truly on one half working neuron ✨ (some spoilers here and there from upcoming chapters so beware!)
Penelope looks so sickly, the bags under her eyes are so unsettling, no wonder Callisto lost it and tried to drag her to the palace when he took notice of her condition
She stayed up all night overthinking and couldn’t catch a moment of sleep after confirming her suspicions that Ivonne is indeed the Laila and she wasn’t mistaken on Soleil…she is exhausted and ready to give up, free my girl she went through enough 😭
I didn’t think it would be possible but her wrists are even thinner than last time…PENELOPE GET BEHIND ME. I’ll protect you from these stinky men eugh🤺🤺🤺
Callisto tends to be really headstrong and protective when it comes to Penelope, but despite being very over the top on different occasions he was not exaggerating with this one. He had a good reason to lose it *sobbing*
like. her wrist are shaped like scrawny twigs 😭 Penelope I love you, but please eat
FEAR NOT CALLISTO IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAY 🗣️🦅
I really like that she actually called Callisto by name instead of his title again, this is the first time she calls him by name out loud 🥹
And it’s always his golden hair that she notices first, she’s so real for that. Penelope probably has a hidden fantasy of running her fingers through his hair, who wouldn’t tbh
AUGH he looks so soft here, I cannot comprehend how Penelope managed to restrain herself from yanking him down and kissing him, in her place I would’ve done that a looong time ago
It’s this scene from chapter 161 of the novel, I can’t believe we’ve come this far, this scene is finally getting illustrated. Still feels like a fever dream 😭😭
Snippet from novel chapter 161:
Arm still covering my eyes, I called irritably, "I said to let no one in."
"Does that include a member of the imperial family?"
The voice belonged to someone I hadn't been expecting to hear. I quickly lowered my arm, the sudden light stinging my eyes. I could make out his luxurious golden hair and ruby-red eyes, even as my vision blurred, trying to adjust.
"Callisto?"
I wondered if I was dreaming as I stared blankly up at the man in front of me. His ruby eyes suddenly darted downwards until they were much closer to my face, and his golden hair was tickling my forehead.
He scrunched up his nose, "I can't have you waking up already. I haven't even kissed you yet." His laughing baritone was loud and clear thanks to our close proximity and his words jolted me to attention.
I will print this panel and plaster it on my wall so it can be the first thing I see when I wake up. Father and mother are back to serve us the most delicious, toe-curling, gut-wrenching angst
There’s a certain appeal in knowing we’ll get Callisto ins shambles in the next chapter. He will be so angry too, can’t wait for his new range of expressions, Suol is going so hard with these last few chapters, literally feeding us with masterpiece after masterpiece ✨🤭
Y’all better get your ibuprofen ready because we’re suffering from now on, and it’s only suffering, hurt no comfort type of thing. The coming of age scene where Penelope collapsed will be in about 7/8 chapters at most so we’ll be served angst continuously ✨🫶
#calliope angst#it hits so hard you have to take ibuprofen#get your therapist on speed dial#GRRRR GREENHOUSE SCENE MY BELOVED#penelope eckhart#penelope eckart#callisto regulus#penelope eckart x callisto regulus#villains are destined to die#vadd#(non-official tags):#death is the only ending for a villainess#death is the only ending for the villainess#el’s rants#el’s thoughts#chapter analysis#but it’s more of a live reaction
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#throwback to that time I was a freshly out queer kid and was congratulated multple times for not being too queer#the therapist I had to see to get my letter for hrt was happy that I was binary-trans(?) and proceeded to go on a rant about NB identities#*during a therapy session*#there are many spaces that had meaningful impacts on me and I still don't know if I was accepted there#or if I was just palatable#people will ignore your identity and call it support#there was no point to this btw#sometimes you just need to make bad art for that collection of feelings you don't have the words to fully encompass#I love seeing such visibly queer people#and hope that is one day me#my art
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The most infuriating form of sanism is this idea that mentally ill people/people with mental disorders are just too stupid or too unenlightened to know how to be a proper, well-adjusted person
So many therapists have ignored signs of my unwellness simply because they assumed I was just... being stupid, and I just needed educating about why I'm acting disordered (apparently, mental disorders stop disordering you once you are condescendingly told why you're just disordered and dumb, who knew (sarcasm)).
Like, I could tell them that I knew my behaviour wasn't "rational," wasn't "reasonable" to do or believe and I'd still be treated like I was so dumb I needed hand-holding and scolding about why I'm acting disordered.
I truly wish that people would be able to take the idea of guidance and stop twisting it into "I am superior and enlightened and the people I am trying to help are stupid and wrong and beneath me!"
#mental health#mental health advocacy#ableism#ableism tw#sanism#sanism tw#yes therapist i was aware that using 1/3 of a bottle of detergent for a medium-sized load of laundry isn't rational...#...and that it could wreck my clothes and my washer (which is why i brought it up in the first place. because i knew it wasn't right)...#...like that's an example and it's SO infuriating just how high of a horse some professionals (and even laypeople) put themselves on...#...like when you stop viewing patients as PEOPLE who need guidance and start viewing them as essentially helpless idiots you have a problem#and that problem should either be addressed or you should leave the practice utterly if you're a licensed professional#call me crazy but i don't think this attitude is conducive to the PATIENT'S well-being#the PATIENT is the person who matters. the PATIENT is the most important part of this ENTIRE interaction#the instance i was thinking about in this tag rant fucking *destroyed* my trust in that therapist#because it just told me that i wasn't being seen as a *person* but as an *issue*#and regardless of if that was their intention i still don't think it was appropriate#you can have the *best* intentions and still be ignorant and say/do ignorant things. even with the best intentions#having 'good intentions' does not absolve you of harm or absolve you of the capability TO harm#another reason i Do Not Like CBTherapy
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Can we talk about the autistic people who were diagnosed as a child but labeled ‘too normal’ to qualify for any help so the adults around you never bothered to get you a formal diagnosis and just treated you like a neurotypical kid all while you struggled with being autistic and would get yelled at for acting r-worded or not doing as their told or just having sensory overloads and/or autistic meltdowns and now as an adult it turns out you aren’t ‘too normal’ and actually are ‘more autistic’ and now the people who labeled you as ‘normal’ have to slowly come to terms with your autism
#just me?#actually autistic#autistic#autism#unintelligible gremlin noises#kinda a rant#now I get to struggle for a proper diagnosis because my therapist no longer does autism diagnoses and I’ll probably have to go inter state
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You know what's exhausting? Always having to empathise with your mother. Even when you don't want to. Because you think it's your fault that she is feeling the way she is, that you should be the one fixing whatever is wrong in her life even when you warned her before she went ahead and screwed it up for herself, having to hear that she feels guilty for all that she puts me through but not actually doing anything to change it, but still thinking I've too many expectations from her cause she has been through so much. I always wonder if I shouldn't be the understanding one and that I should get to throw a temper tantrum and not have it be invalidated by her but I always go back to feeling evil for thinking that my problems are even remotely as hard as hers. I promise myself and her that I will help her through whatever steps she takes in the future as difficult as it may get but when she takes steps back again, I lose hope and the energy to support her the next time she begins or even actually goes through with it . After all this, I still feel guilty expecting so much from her and say that it will take time for her to get past mental blocks and her trauma and that I should be ready to take every step with her whenever she is ready. It always, always goes from being furious to making excuses for her actions and her decisions and I realise how much I keep hurting myself and blaming myself for things I don't even do.
#random rant#toxic relationship#life rant#random thoughts#mothers#toxic parents#toxic family#toxic mom#guiltrip#parentified child#childhood trauma#mommy issues#only child#divorced parents#family therapist
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"Mia kind of sucked actually" yeah geez she only grew up in a resentful death cult, got parentified at age 12, fled the only home she's ever known to avoid being pitted against that same sibling she had to raise, graduated law school alone, overcame trauma and depression to start a successful law firm alone in her mid-20's, and spent whatever free time she had researching emotionally painful cold cases and planning to take down a corrupt CEO. even if therapists existed in the trilogy (real therapy, not Athena's bs), when would Mia have had the time? she covered an incredible amount of ground just breaking free of Kurain and adapting to the world outside the village - again, without anyone she could entirely trust to catch her if she fell. but still, she changed and grew as a person in just the 3-year span we knew her. she got much better at managing her anxious and aggressive tendencies. she was more openly supportive toward Phoenix than any adult was to her. and she was literally TRYING to open up more to Phoenix and Maya on the night she died, by introducing those two halves of her life to each other despite the risks! if Mia Fey "sucked", then how high a standard should women be held to, hmm?
#sparrow rants#ace attorney#mia fey#hate this new trend of dumping on mia for not acting exactly like a therapist would recommend 100% of the time#just because mia is a wise mentor figure doesn't mean that everything she did was meant to be interpreted as correct#ace attorney is ABOUT people trying their best in messed up circumstances#'mia hid information in 2-2' she literally taught phoenix how to crack her psyche-locks???#you know? the things that stop people from sharing the painful secrets in their heart?#mia's relationship with morgan was probably more complex than 'I hate that bitch' despite fandom loving to hate that bitch#block me if this take is too spicy#I don't really interact with the fandom anyway
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I really am not trying to bully Voda out of spite or whatever but it is my opinion that mental health and crisis support professionals need to be like. 1000% more aggressive about defending our work from AI encroachment. Like we need to be at least as aggressive as people in the arts have been. The stakes are pretty fucking high over here!
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Comforting people doesn't come naturally to MK, and even when he does (3x10, 4x11) it usually comes from a place of what he needs/needed in the past rather than what the other person needs ("Mei is my best friend!" "I'm not ready to be without a mentor"/"I know what it's like to have a power you don't know how to control" "I need you to be the Monkey King").
Truly all that boi does is repeat advice ("We will figure this out together!" "We just have to leave it a little better than we found it"). Love him
#group therapist MK is getting to me today#obviously to each their own#but his ass is NOT helping Macaque work through his inner turmoil. Or Red Son. Or Wukong most of the time. etc. etc.#At least in my own (correct) (joking) interpretation#lmk#lego monkie kid#lmk MK#lmk rant#imp complains#<- should probably have that tag#block it if you don't want to see me complain about nothing asdlfasdfasdf
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The fact that I'm taking a graduate level course and have a professor use "mental ret*rdation" in their slides infuriates me to no end.
Like, I mean no end. I'm trying my best to anonymously get it addressed within the department so that way the professor could correct it and make an announcement about its correction.
I'm also looking through the required textbook, and uh...
[Alt Text: picture of a man looking down one on one side with a blurred shadow of him looking scared or shocked on the other side. The photo is described as "image of dissociative identity disorder" end image description]
And a lot of calling mental illness madness, insanity, and even "minds of disturbed people."
It was published in 2021. (Sociology of Mental Disorder by William C. Cockerham if anyone wants to give it a shit review with me)
At this point I want the class to turn into a mad studies course. If you want to have that language so fucking badly then give the mic to the people who try to reclaim it. If you can screw up this badly, then start making it up to the ones you've screwed over.
But yeah a lot of my time about this class is pointing out how bad it is.
#and this post isnt even about the actual content! don't worry I haven't actually learned anything a month in#and see many inaccuracies#my therapist read some screenshots of the book I sent him and said the fuck out loud#r slur#r slur tw#ableism tw#sanism tw#mad punk#disability#disability rights#rant#disability advocacy
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suf: shows the main character's trauma in full seriousness, with very real symptoms, they get the love and support they need at the end, actually starts seeing a therapist and leaves their home to start a new life
audience: boohoo this show is so dumb, it demonizes mental illnesses and solves everything with a hug
spop: shows the main character get into a relationship with their abuser, their character arc is left incomplete and all of their trauma is brushed under the rug
audience: omg such a good representation of trauma! this show is so mature!!
#i'll never forgive people for the way they warped suf to fit their own perspective#“steven was so toxic” not as toxic as catra#like yes he was going through the wringer but he was still trying to hold himself together#with the way everyone in the series treated him as an unpaid therapist i dont blame him for lashing out#idc what people say suf was not that bad#and i was so happy to see a character in a children's media get ACTUAL THERAPY#instead of just healing through the power of friendship or whatever#su had its issues ofc but i'm suf alone here#sorry long rant
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on my anti dr. jacob agenda sooo hard you don't even know. like the level of just how unprofessional, unethical, and fucking infuriating his choices are is putting me into so much of a rage i can no longer maintain my danny rojas level of live laugh love in this economy. bastard. bastard man. my worst enemy. im calling the kansas college of registered psychotherapy and regulatory board of ethics on him don't test me
#i have so much beef with him you don't fucking get it#everything about the situation should have his licence for practice instantly revoked#full stop#getting with a patient after treating both her and her husband in couples counselling and then seeing her individually#to coach her through her DIVORCE and then starting to date her???#its like he fucking wants to lose his liscence#its such a stupid fucking thing to do thats so morally reprehensible for him as a professional i just-#aksjhfkjJHKHKJKJKHLJKHFHDJSHKLHJKDSFHJRRRRRRRRR#like TECHNICALLY you can have relations with patients#TECHNICALLY#but theres a nearly decade long time minimum that has to elapse before thats like legal for the regulatory board???#its something like 7 years (at least where i live)#and thats not 7 years since you've met them#that's 7 years AFTER you stopped seeing them as a patient#just. fucking baffling#because thats a massively inappropriate relationship!!! its not allowed for a fucking reason!!!#you are not meant to be your therapist's friend and you are CERTAINLY not meant to fucking DATE THEM lijlasfhKJEKKKEE????#i'm fine. im good#everything is fine and i didnt just start the episode and break into a massive rant in the tags. we're fine :)#ted lasso#ted lasso spoilers#ted lasso season 3#andis thought geyser
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People in fandom acting like psychiatrists and moral police are the most exhausting part of fandom. I'm trying to block and/or mute the worst offenders, but f**k it's so wide spread.
Can no one just enjoy the sh*t they like? Why do so many of you fall into becoming full-time haters? You sound like the most miserable people. I hope you can learn how to find joy in something rather than spiral into a bad case of hater mental gymnastics. Your life sounds unfulfilled, and ultimately, it's up to you to try and find happiness or continue to stew in misery.
From personal experience, I know how easy it is to get stuck in negativity, but I also know it's possible to pull yourself out and adjust your mindset. The big question to ask yourself first is if you want to be miserable and a buzzkill forever, or learn how to find pockets of happiness in a sometimes brutal world? It's up to you.
** And I'm not talking about fair analysis and criticism of media and/or fictional relationship dynamics, I have no problem with that. I'm talking about the people who constantly hate just to hate and can't critically think to save their lives because of the hate that has a strangle hold on them. **
#fandom#critical role#imodna#imogen x laudna#this is just a little rant because I'm tired of seeing dumb sh*t anytime laudna and imogen have a heart to heart#fandom learning therapist speak was a mistake because most have no idea what they're really saying
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