#i need to be heavily medicated

[a-blip-of-billdip]

this isnt what i usually post on this blog but I'm already sick of all the memes and 'jokes'. I am almost certainly leaving the fandom for good now because of the book of bills release and NO it is not because billford's community has an influx of supporters.

So the worship and romanticization of asylums and other abusive practices for mental health have been steadily gaining traction in recent years, especially with the rise of tiktok's toxicity.

SO many people, especially younger people, regularly talk about how they want lobotomies or how women they don't like should be lobotomized. They get tattoos of lobotomy like it's some quirky fun thing and not one of the most horrific tortures someone can endure.

These same people, ESPECIALLY leftists, will look at anyone they disagree with or don't like and say "get institutionalized, loser" or "et therapy" and it's always in a mocking way. it's always in a policing way.

because these people know that mental wards strip everyone of their freedom and their bodily autonomy. they know these places arent for healing--theyre for silencing.

So the amount of people i see treating bill being institutionalized like a good thing---even the writers and alex himself?

Yeah. Im out ✌🏼

[si-fii]

Pyromiru is real and almost complete

After about a month in the works, Pyromiru is happening on a youtube near you (in the near future). Can't believe I'm actually finishing this...I don't think I've ever undertaken a video project this big, especially not one using SFM.

Shoutout to the other chirumiru tf2 parodies who absolutely inspired this one, check em out!

[oopsallsyscourse]

Hot take, anti psych is just as much of a privileged take as pro psych

[cockyroaches]

I don't take Ritalin every day bc it's kind of a chore to get it. So sometimes I forget that I'm fatigued and rotting because I have the 'brain not connected to body' disease

[uncanny-tranny]

Hello! I don't know if this is a question you can answer, but do you happen to know what degrees are required to be something along the lines of gender therapist or a therapist that specializes in helping queer people?

You've hit a general interest of mine, and while I'm not going into gender or sexuality therapies, I am interested in psych. Whatever college you decide to go to will likely have a better answer for you, so please network.

It really depends on what you want to focus on as a queer-focused professional, but you will likely need a bachelor's degree at minimum, and additionally, you will likely want to take classes in gender and sexuality studies and sex in general. Think about exactly what you would want for this career. For instance, you probably don't need a doctorate if you aren't going into psychiatry or if you aren't interested in being able to actually prescribe medication, so you might not want to choose to pursue your education or career that far. A master's in counseling and even sex therapy would likely be great for you.

Again, definitely talk to whatever college or university you're interested in and see what classes they would advise you to take, if they have those classes.

I'm definitely not an expert in this area, my degree is going towards something slightly different in the medical field. These are what I've gathered from general research into counseling and queer-specific care

Just to break this down, what you might want to look into is:

Bachelor's degree (minimum) or master's in counseling/behavioural therapy

Licensure requirements for the state and/or country you live in

Gender/sexuality studies, or sex therapy courses

[madame-mongoose]

Elaborating on one of your posts, those mood swings sound like bpd. also hi I like your art :)

YEAHHHH I'm like. Almost 100% sure I have it. Most likely quiet bpd. I've been trying to get an evaluation and diagnosis but no clinics near me are accepting new patients rn and it's really difficult. But I think it's almost a 100% guarantee I have it bc I experience. Every symptom. To a T

[lhazaar]

i've never considered sending hate mail to a journalist before but this fucking cbc article about how to ~practice self-care~ in the face of evacuating from the wildfires currently forcing the entire territorial capital of the nwt to flee is. something else. guided meditation podcasts! play outdoor sports to reduce your stress levels! what do you mean you can't breathe outdoor air and your car tires are melting to the highway. have you considered um. uh. going for a little walk :)

[bumblingbabooshka]

Dr. Invar - Varith’s Betrothed

[moe-broey]

Transferrable Skills

Tbh I'm not sure how any of this works (being a healer) and god knows Moe doesn't either 😌🙏✨

[vaultsixtynine]

i'm just going to ramble abt nart oc because i really do need to start finalizing some character details 🤙

nart oc's whole bit is that she is heavily focused on being proficient at doing her job (robbing powerful but non-shinobi people blind)/living her life without heavy reliance on chakra and extended techniques. this is a philosophy primarily derived from a period of time after a traumatic injury that fundamentally changed her ability to interact with her chakra/perform 'traditional' chakra techniques - she had to slowly claw her way back from that, and grew around the injury, so to speak. she's better than she was before the injury, and being forced to innovate and travel and find new ways of doing things is something she credits heavily.

she also has some philosophical bits when it comes to chakra, but she keeps those on the dl because the average person doesn't interact with chakra at a high enough level to care and most shinobi are too entrenched in Being A Village Shinobi to discuss the nuances she's preoccupied with, but she does think that villages teach certain things in incredibly limited ways, which she finds bizarre.

theft/redistribution is a large part of her life and she prides herself on doing that Well - she has no need to steal from the average person, and theft from anyone below a certain social power threshold is like - embarrassing? it's shameful. also, the world has taught her that the only way to get anything done is to be Known for something, so this is her Thing. she has a calling card that she leaves behind after a successful theft (when i know what it is you'll be the first to know), and she has a successful on again/off again partnership with a priestess-turned-monster-hunter (my secondary and Very Silly On Purpose nart oc) who she met when they were both still teenagers.

she relies heavily on henge in her day-to-day, and even when she looks like Herself she is covering the remnants of the injury as a matter of... pride, maybe, or shame. her family is a touchy subject for many reasons and she does often contemplate stealing away her younger siblings from her mother, even as much as she realizes that would be a terrible idea that would make things worse for everyone (probably).

her primary nature is wind, but beyond basic and brusque functionality with it she prioritizes chakra control as well as yin and yang releases, and she has extensive genjutsu capabilities (like her mother [derogatory]). her primary concerns with chakra usage is a) remaining unnoticed/identified and then b) if shit does break bad, escaping or hiding as quickly as possible. she's not preoccupied with being lethal or having overwhelming brute force, and most of her talents lie in misdirection and quick change-ups while she thinks her way out of a problem.

[apricote]

sorry for being quiet!!! my new psychiatric meds are actually helping so i haven't been online as much. 🫶

[apologyacceptedcaptainneeda]

I’m so scared to get a new psychiatrist. My last one was horrible. She was not good. She reality checked me on our first appointment, which sent me spiraling. She made assumptions about my symptoms and gave me no time to tell her she was wrong. She didn’t take into account all my symptoms and which ones were more severe when adjusting my meds. But the thing that pisses me off the most is how she handled adding a med. She flat out coerced me. She placed me on a benzo despite all my concerns and fear of it. She even showed me some graph that showed my risk of overdose, which was low but still there. She also said the benzo was safer than a specific antipsychotic I had been on previously.

Yeah. That was not ok. Definitely not something to tell someone actively in psychosis. Also fucking hell why did she lower a med treating my severe anxiety and severe depression?

When I said I was diagnosed with bpd, she questioned why. On the first appointment. Because I meet all the criteria! That’s why! I was diagnosed! I didn’t pluck it from the air!

Or when she said I’m not schizophrenic. I’m schizoaffective, I know this. I didn’t say I was schizophrenic. She fucking wasn’t listening. She also said I wasn’t disorganized. Ha! I very much am. I have days of intense word salad among other disorganized symptoms that are constant. She didn’t let me explain that.

Also just the blatant disregard for my history. I have past suicide attempts. I am chronically suicidal. I actively self harm. I have a long history or trauma. I struggle to reliably take my meds. I have been hospitalized so many times.

She. Did. Not. Care.

I took myself off the benzo. Yeah. I fucking did. Because I am not ok with being on it. And it is not safe for me to be on it. She put me on it twice a day every day. She gave me on the second appointment three month of refills. Yeah. So it wasn’t a short temporary get through this rough patch med. She was going to leave me on it. How fucking irresponsible.

So I’m not going back to that psychiatrist. Ever. I refuse.

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

the actor having a cocaine addiction since 1922 and literally doing it off of silver platters vs jack making henrik shoot him up with morphine stolen from the hospital every single night. and somehow both these guys are still alive despite this

[funerals]

official announcement to all my mutuals: I apologize and warn u in advance that I'm off my meds and will not stop fucking rambling sorry for the literal paragraphs I'm leaving in ur replies I just can't shut up okay love u bye

[pastafossa]

Regarding new chapter: if you don’t have any issues with medical trauma and would prefer no spoilers, you can skip this, because this is just a friendly warning about our new chapter dropping tonight. I’ll put it behind a wall so those that want to go in unspoiled can do so.

Running our new chapter through Grammarly at the moment so should be done soon, BUT this is a little warning ahead of time that we’re going to touch on some slightly heavy elements in this one - Jane’s medical trauma from experiments, namely. I don’t think it’s a dark chapter per se, especially since we’re seeing it from Matt’s side, and Claire knows how to handle it, and there’s a lot of comfort before that, but there’s definitely some implications and some ‘let me go’, along with Matt and Claire dealing with some flashback behavior, that start around 3/4 of the way through. So if you get in and decide this is too much, let me know either in the comments, an ask, or in a personal message if you’d prefer it privately, and I’ll give you a brief sumup of the relevant details. It really is a small section of the overall chapter, but I know this stuff can be triggering for people so I want to make sure you all know you’re safe to tap out on it if you need to.