#The DSM IV

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EP Review: The DSM IV - Negative Utopia (9x9 Records)

Sweaty, shaking, eyes rolling around the head, and completely lost in a world of hyperrealism.

Liverpool gothic alt-pop trio The DSM IV will release their new EP, ‘Negative Utopia’, via local independent label heroes 9×9 Records on January 21st, 2025. Photo Credit: @richiebyates At times, listening to Negative Utopia is akin to a fever dream. Not just because of its surrealistic antics, but because it has garish goth tones that combine retro styles with modern thinking, and somehow, ends…

[jelliebabydog]

hai thank u for ur answer. I’ve researched a lot through a lot of places! I’ve learned a lot from learning through people’s experiences too. I don’t think it’s bad to research at all. I think maybe in asking how to find credible sources without the dsm? and is the icd better or should we also treat it like the dsm? like if someone wants to know what the symptoms and extent/criteria of one disorder are - how can they know they’re getting the correct info? honestly. who comes up with this. like I thought the dsm and icd were like the “””official deciders of stuff with these disorders”” and without these “”official criteria”” how do we know one disorder vs another? how can it be decided what is a symptom of one thing vs another? I guess I’m trying to make sure I’m thinking not .. rigidly .. about things. and looking for more resources.

im not the best explainer but i will try my fricken hardest rn anon !!!!!

how do we know one disorder VS another? you dont. none of them are real. the only real part of a disorder is symptoms. disorders are not real. they are based on the society that you live in. i "have" schizophrenia because i have 2 or more positive "psychotic" symptoms for 6 months or longer. but i also have many other symptoms of many other disorders. the way it becomes a "disorder" is by severely negatively impacting my life, based on the society i live in. saying "i have schizophrenia" literally just means "i have the key for unlocking treatment to my symptoms." that's all diagnosis really does, unlock treatments. it doesnt mean your symptoms are more or less real or anything like that. the official criteria of literally everything is made up. i could make up a mental disorder right now called lunathedog syndrome and say that it includes every single mental symptom ive ever had in my life, and that is literally as real as "schizophrenia". that is to say, it's just a name i gave to a group of things. the only reason we socially say things like "i have schizophrenia" to peers is to communicate that i have a specific set of symptoms which disadvantage me in a certain way in the society i live in. it's literally just a random group of symptoms that humans have noticed appear together often. the symptoms are not necessarily actually related to eachother, they just appear frequently together. this is why when a person has 1 mental illness, its very likely that they have another one too - we are all just unique and individual soups of symptoms.

the ICD-11 is not like the DSM-5. the ICD-11 is used globally and is not focused on mental health disorders. it is still used to uphold hegemonic western values of course because disorders are based on the society you live in. as far as the mental disorders section goes, it's literally just diagnostic criteria as far as i remember and doesnt include any other information (like there's no fun facts or sections that go into extreme detail about anything. iirc the DSM is packed with info about everything in it and doesnt only include diagnostic criteria) if you want to know up to date and current diagnostic criteria for anything, use the ICD-11's criteria. this is what the rest of the world uses and is based on recent international research

[djfinchyfinch]

When you get so autistic about a character that you have to read/watch not just things they canonically like, but things you think they’d like based just on vibes

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[untouchvbles]

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX at Hot Rods On Hampton (2024) in Butler, WI.

[s0fter-sin]

wait in the og mw2 did shepherd leak allen's identity to makarov? bc he wanted all of that to happen? like maybe he didn't know about the airport but he knew he was planning something and having an american operative involved would ensure the start of a war. maybe he did know and just didn't care

i still don't really know why he turned on the 141 and killed ghost and roach for the dsm if not bc it would reveal he was working with him behind the scenes. same with how makarov knew where his base was i feel like that whole thing was unexplored

which was probably the point, they just wanted a twist villain, but to have them conspiring to end the world both for their own delusions of grandeur (thus proving they aren't as great/important as they think they are bc they both needed each other) would be very interesting

og shepherd's whole thing wasn't about going down in history as the guy who saved america like reboot shepherd; his whole thing was about vengeance

"five years ago i lost 30 thousand men in the blink of an eye and the world just fucking watched. tomorrow there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots"

he wants the world to suffer for (in his eyes) not caring about what happened to his men then swoop in and save it to prove he was right and makarov doesn't care how many of his own people have to die for him to achieve his goals

they're using each other to get the world on the brink and then they think they'll win so it doesn't matter what they have to do to get to that point

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

wanna ask how you feel about the eridan bpd headcanon/theory(?? not sure what to call it!) you're so good at your character analysis and i'd love to see your outlook on it

Since I don't have a degree or any formal training in psychology, I feel deeply uncomfortable diagnosing characters. I've made an autism joke before but only because I'm on the spectrum. He's definitely traumatized and anxious, but I mean those as descriptors of his behavior rather than capital-D Diagnoses. I try to focus on those when I can - the cause and effect of cognition, self-image, and behavior - and those factors may very well match up with DSM criteria, but I try not to touch an actual diagnosis with a ten foot pole unless the author has explicitly stated that X character has Y condition.

[losers-lovers-sys]

'endos aren't real you can't just have plurality '

SHUT UP. ICD WHO CODE 6B64 BE UPON YOU

[image text: Boundary with Normality (Threshold): The presence of two or more distinct personality states does not always indicate the presence of a mental disorder. In certain circumstances (e.g., as experienced by ‘mediums’ or other culturally accepted spiritual practitioners) the presence of multiple personality states is not experienced as aversive and is not associated with impairment in functioning. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder should not be assigned in these cases.]

If you choose to use the DSM as a reasoning for hating endos without acknowledging that it is a limited mental disorder resource that caters mainly to the US health systems then I can't stop you!

But if y'all really want to support yourselves with facts, you should recognize the broader spectrum of world health too and make a decision fully.

Anti-endos if you make this negative in any way/shape/form I am air dropping pudding into your bed

[sophiethewitch1]

writing my first reader with self confidence but they are also passively suicidal so you know you win some you lose some

[br1ghtestlight]

babygirl i have mentally ill thought patterns you've never even heard of

[silverjirachi]

back in my day we didnt baselessly claim to self diagnose a very rare and severe mental illness that requires repeated trauma so bad and at such an early age that it literally splits your psyche, back in my day we called it kinning and we were happy about it

[theokusgallery]

i have bad news for anyone who expects mental illness to be family friendly

^ yeah!

[twobruhsinahottub]

"I couldn't possibly be a system, i have no dissociative amnesia and not enough distinctions between parts ! I mean yeah i don't remember huge chunks of my life and yeah I've forgotten (usually traumatic) events even when i could remember them a day ago and yeah i zone out a whole lot and go into my head and can't grasp the passage of time and yeah i say things one minute and realise the next that they aren't true / what i believe but no thats not dissociation / dissociative amnesia ! Besides, you have to have huge dissociation between parts and not remember your name and stuff to be diagnosed with DID !!"

^ guy who doesn't know what dissociative amnesia is and is also in denial and also hasnt read the dsm-5 and also-

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Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2024) - Meet 4 in Waukesha, WI.

[head-of-oncology]

I FINALLY GOT A DSM IV 🗣🗣🗣

[absolutedaisy]

Done a ton of research, gotten multiple second opinions, read the dsm-5, and I’m just gonna say I think I probably have bpd.