#inner psyche

[sargentoh]

everyone’s always like ‘ronans so catholic’ in reference to like his deep spirituality or shame in dreaming or whatever but nobody uses it to talk about how even after adam and ronan made out shirtless all night he made them sleep in separate bedrooms. like that is the most catholic he’s ever been

[shisasan]

[cornertheculprit]

i love how phoenix loves to constantly joke around about how maya is a shady weirdo who exists for the sole purpose of draining his wallet dry but the minute he loses his memories in 2-1 and interacts with her the first assumption he draws about her is "she has a sharp mind."

[aba-daba-dooo]

I started rewatching Brooklyn 99 with my family because they wanted another cop comedy after finishing Psych. But I’m reminded that the thing I really like about Psych is that it doesn’t fall into the “clean up the streets” trope. So many cop shows have a main character who thinks of criminals as human garbage or think that sending people to jail ultimately betters the world. And they make that stance very clear. But Shawn is really just invested in doing the right thing by someone else. He doesn’t just immediately go for the obvious suspect. He openly believes and makes friends with convicts. He finds redeeming qualities in criminals who people would otherwise despise, like Yang and Despereaux. He works hard to right his wrongs when it comes to cases. (Maybe this is because he breaks the law at least once per episode and really can’t judge anyone? Like he sees other humans as his equals and it’s kinda refreshing.) It’s just very cool how subtly different the take on good vs evil is in the show. Morality is fluid and I like it.

[rockyteriyaki]

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES 👯

s/o to @powerful-owl for starting this meme and @disarmd for the insanely funny contribution, it’s such a delightful thought exercise! here’s my attempt:

MASCOTS!

american sports have hella mascots, so every team is tasked to create a marketable mascot that could represent them for u.s fans. they also have to build a little model to pitch the concept. there’s the williams whale sharks. the aston martin martinis. lando and oscar devise a walking papaya named penny who looks so much like a vulva oscar backs out almost instantly.

GUESS THE GRID based on clothing choices: drivers assemble an outfit they’d wear and then everyone else tries to guess who picked what. the catch is that the f1a girls did the same challenge and their answers are mixed in as well. everybody thinks doriane’s mercedes-themed picks are george’s and maya gets confused for charles even though there’s no ferrari branding to be seen. chloe’s picked a haas cap with a black skirt and we watch nico hulkenberg go through every emotion known to man trying to figure out why kevin would—???

(meanwhile the academy grid is absolutely ripping everybody’s style choices to shreds, accusing hamda of being the most basic bitch on the planet bc max chose to wear basketball shorts, etc)

PADDOCK SCAVENGER HUNT

5 teams are in on it and the other 5 can’t know what’s going on, otherwise they lose points. charles pretends that he’s too tired to walk when pierre catches him searching the top of a cabinet on carlos’ shoulders. oscar distracts williams while lando tries to get a picture of logan with red, white and blue objects in the background. yuki gets stranded on top of the rbr motorhome because daniel won’t stop using him for reconnaissance and the whole thing gets called off because max sees them squabbling on the roof and thinks the rapture has arrived.

GEORGE AND ALEX MAKE GRAPHICS

ib george’s natural talent for graphic design. the audience gets to see what a communications team actually does in motorsport (educational!) and george and alex get free reign of the entire library of press photos of eachother. george is hunting for a terrible picture of alex to edit onto a podium but ends up having a very verbal crisis about how none of the pap shots are appropriately bad and then spends the next half an hour digging himself into theeee deepest hole talking about how it’s just not as FUNNY if alex looks TOO GOOD on the podium! it would be UNFAIR! alex is squirming and trying to remember where tf he was planning on going with this zoomed-in great-gatsby-esque picture of george’s eyelids on his screen right now. george silently edits alex’s teeth out of his mouth and tries to erase the fact that he just called alex handsome like 47 times.

MARIO KART SIM RACING

im talking full immersion. sherbet land is ice fucking cold. every time they drive over some kind of giant clock or railroad or something the sim porpoises like a jackhammer. someone is standing behind them with a full tank of water for the splash sections. there’s a legitimate epilepsy warning at the start of the video. bowser puts the fear of god into lando norris.

MAX AND DANIEL DO TEMPORARY TATTOOS

i’m hesitant to allow them access to a bowl of water but i have an extremely clear vision of daniel slapping tats all over the blank spaces on his skin to the point where they overlap and he’s just got shiny plasticky tattoo skin everywhere. max would find this unappealing and also stupid until he realizes all the fake tattoos on his side of the table are replicas of daniel’s actual ones. cut to: daniel with a snake tattoo stuck in his eyebrow hairs hiking his shorts up so max can mirror the placement on his own inner thigh. daniel resembling a concussed post malone, watching max’s careful application of the ‘3’ tattoo. max does a horrible aussie accent and daniel looks like a chimpanzee seeing its own reflection for the first time. cinema.

[moophinz]

I still do not know what I am meant to take away from Majima’s Mr.Libido substory

Kiryu’s Mr.Libido suddenly becomes bisexual (???) I guess (???) and then there’s whatever the hell is going on with Majima. Thank you writing team, very cool.

[xoxoemynn]

anyway after my first failed attempt [checks calendar] 14 years ago, I have finally made an appointment with a therapist, please clap.

[bullbobb]

TSS!Time headcanons

He is. Very scarred. I assume he and elemental would fight a lot before they officially stopped working together, different world views and all that, and elemental’s a very violent person. I doubt Time would throw hands in return tho

Because of these scars, he probably wears his mask a lot. He’s not entirely self conscious of them, but generally prefers to hide his face. It makes him look more passive, anyway.

Because of wearing the mask so often, he’s sensitive to light. The sun makes him CRAZY you don’t UNDERSTAND. He also wears heavy clothing a lot, so skin to skin contact is a lot for baby. Sabre grabs his arm and he freaks.

Overall I see him as kind of a gruff guy. He’s friendly with sabre and rainbow but still remains quiet and kind of aloof. He usually comes off as emotionless and indifferent because of this.

He uh. Hates Elemental. Straight up. There’s no “ughhhh but he’s my brother,, I love him even if he’s a maniac,,” in TSS. He didn’t give a crap when elemental blew up. His biggest reaction was “huh that sucks” HE didn’t CARE I SWEAR. He probably didn’t like Elemental much at all (valid) and though might’ve enjoyed having a friend or a brother before, Time is kinda self-righteous and doesn’t think much of second chances. That guy traumatized and hurt him, he’s not going to feel bad. But, of course, bros hurting inside and his attitude about it just makes coping harder

Doesn’t care much for Galaxy either???? Like elemental was the one who was so passionate about their creator. But Time? “Uuuuhhhh ok. That guy. Yep. My dad. That guy. That guy my dad. He… fishes. And likes sandwiches. Super . Great.”

He’s got lung scarring thanks to having an anger issues brother with control over the elements. Try inhaling fire. Not good. Makes your lungs crispy. Breathing is an artful thing

Sabre is the ONLY one he is honest with. Like. At all. He hated Elemental, was FINE with Rainbow, doesn’t know what to think of Galaxy, but him and Sabre are bros.

Also uhhh Time likes men ��🫶

[confusedsiewmai]

I feel bad sometimes reading zosan fanfic because they be like creating complex plots and schemes and thought processes. But then, I have to close the tab because Zoro and Sanji would NOT think that much. They are single cell organisms around each other. I physically cannot read fanfic where they think in each other's vicinity.

[daz4i]

in legal terms we call it "complicity in 136 murders, 312 extortion cases, 625 cases of fraud, and other sundry crimes"

[sophieinwonderland]

Systemscringe on Inner Worlds...

So, yes, it's true that singlets can have inner worlds too... but with that in mind, it should be immediately obvious that you can have complex inner worlds because singlets can also have maladaptive daydreaming which is exactly that.

And MADD has a high comorbidity with DID, and has actually been proposed by experts as a type of dissociative disorder.

Complex inner worlds in many DID cases is extremely well-documented in academic papers

Studies show 80%-90% of cases of DID present with alters being heard through "auditory hallucinations."

Communication between alters is incredibly common. Having an inner world to speak through makes it easier to focus on and interact with members of your system. Alters can talk through inner worlds. They can also talk without using inner worlds.

Estimates for DID by experts range from 1%-3% of the population. The problem is that you're attributing a reverse causation.

Getting a correct diagnosis of DID often takes years, while systems are instead often misdiagnosed with mood disorders, personality disorders or psychotic disorders.

The stigma doesn't exist because DID is a rare disorder. Rather, DID is rarely diagnosed because of the stigma. Because few psychiatrists are trained to treat it, many don't believe it exists at all, and for-profit pharmaceutical companies would rather people be diagnosed with a disorder that can be treated with pills, giving a financial incentive to oppose DID as a diagnosis.

Amnesia also doesn't need to be constant. It just needs to be beyond "ordinary forgetting." Many DID systems frequently remember some of their switches, and a goal of treatment is to tear down dissociative barriers to be able to increase this memory.

This is a common misconception I see. The problem with DID is that it's often misdiagnosed.

An alter you talk to in your head can be interpreted as an imaginary friend if you're a child, or a psychotic hallucination if you're an adult. And in both of these cases, a psychiatrist who isn't educated on dissociative disorders, which is most of them, may try to convince the patient that the voices aren't real which worsens dissociative symptoms.

Being able to communicate with alters isn't nearly as helpful for diagnosis when that communication is attributed to something entirely different.

Communication also isn't always consistent in systems that do have communication. Sometimes alters go dormant or just can't be reached for period, and it's not clear why this happens. Sometimes certain alters can only communicate with certain other alters. This makes the whole memory gap thing way more difficult to navigate.

And the alters may not even want to tell what's happened if you can reach them. That's especially common for trauma holders.

And sometimes, dissociative amnesia isn't just inter-identity amnesia, and the alter who experiences something can ALSO forget it.

Basically, there are a ton of factors that make communication and memory incredibly complicated with DID that varies vastly from one system to the next, and I realize I've only scratched the surface here, describing what I've heard from systems I know and what I've read in case studies in academic literature.

[fortunaestalta]

[toastybugguy]

say whatever YOU want about season 4 but when Lydia’s sat at the record player with tears in her eyes and she says “but if I have this thing… it’s gotta help someone..” that was a peak Teen Wolf character moment

[nikki-tine]

"This was their mental magnum opus, a final hurrah to their human mortality… and perhaps, even their humanity."

[yesmissnyx]

Fuuuuck, I had an EXCELLENT two-hour edging/painplay session with a sub on LF today 😫

I love this job. I'm so good at this. Ahh 💕💕💕

[obsidiancreates]

"I think my dad's starting to like me." SHAWN DON'T JUST CASUALLY BREAK MY HEART AND INVOKE MY POWERFUL WELL OF RAGE LIKE THAT