#nental illness

[martyr0l0gy]

sometimes, chronic illness and mental illness are actually just spending a day crying and wasting away in bed, and that's okay.

[bloodcrosses]

I've said it before and I'll say it again it again - if what happened to Michael, being videoed getting wheeled put of his apartment on a stretcher after a nervous breakdown - to any of Tumblrs faves, everybody on this shit would've have right gone apeshit. There would have been petitions and everything.

But somebody you don't know (or assume based on shitty gossip isn't nice) isn't worth the bother.

[artofkhaos404]

Borderlines of Tumblr who have been either hospitalized or medicated (or both)... how did it affect you? What were some pros and cons of your experience?

I know DBT and other types of therapy are the highest recommended forms of treatment for those with BPD. I've been going to therapy for the past few months, and my therapist truly is amazing, but my loved ones and I have recently made the difficult decision that I need more intense care than I am receiving. We're not sure exactly what method to pursue, but the options on the table are medication and hospitalization. I don't know how I feel about either to be honest with you, I just know I can't live like this anymore. I'd like to hear some of your stories before coming to any sort of conclusion. If you'd take the time to comment or reblog or even privately dm me on this topic it would mean the world to me.

Thanks guys.

[sepiamestus]

You can generally gauge my mental state by how many cat videos i put on your dash

[hearties-circus]

Wow I feel like shit! Damn

[nightmare8-420]

tw for sh

ayo flashback to that one time in math class when i was 10 i was fighting with a friend abt cvttinf myself and he said prove it or smth so i took some jank ass scissors and proceeded to carbe the marble hornets logo thingy straight into my wrist to prove a point,

an that was the day i trauamtized my friends!

[poorlymanufacturedgirl]

you are unfollowing me because off my nental illness. stoppp please

[marietheran]

So I've heard that sort of thing is supposed to be offensive, but personally (as an nd person) I don't take issue with it, though I see why *certain* phrases might be better off not used. So, is it a thing a few activists made up or do the people concerned truly dislike it?

[paranoidpdsuggestion]

I hope this isn't too much of a question but.. I've been really suffering nentally for a while now but me and the others in my head (alters? Idk) have been arguing about going to therapy for years, I know I need help but I'm scared to go or even "try" for many reasons, but especially because the first therapist didn't go well... Can you give me any advice?

It isn't too much of a question dear. If you really want to get help, it is best to go into therapy... while it is easy to purchase mental self-help books and try and use them, most of them are difficult to navigate without professional help. That's why recovery from mental illness is so daunting and difficult, there's no easy solution without help. I guess that's why it's important to view mental illness in the same light as physical illness.

It's okay if your first therapy session didn't go well - there are plenty of others who will give you a positive experience. I know I've had... my own difficulties with therapists in the past, but eventually one was found that fit my needs. Don't let the fact of having a negative experience scare you away, it happens. This is also true for other sorts of healthcare.

For your case, it's also best to search for a DID/OSDD specialist, as well as psychiatry in case you are open to trying medication. You got this, alright?

~Mod Vivi

[shoezuki]

Headin to an interview rn and i an exhibiting so many nental illness

[0104yuri]

when u clean ur glasses after a while of not cleaning them and its like wow the world is bright and vibrant and colors ^_^! no more nental illness i can see again!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rabbitindisguise]

I think there's a tendency to assume that multigender folks are respected and fine in LGBTQ+ spaces but the reality is we get treated like shit and as invaders no matter where we go (like bi people! and aces! and nb people!) and there are no real large scale multigender spaces so no one really can say what "respecting multigender people" even looks like

Like I know it probably has

Gender/s as a term used (fairly straightforward! And Yet)

Willingness to stop interrogating people when they look like one gender, or nb, and go somewhere unexpected

Willingness to allow men in women's spaces should they benefit with an understanding that no one is safe from getting kicked out for not abiding by the rules

Altering the current social justice rhetoric to accommodate the fact that men and sexism is not 1 to 1 and it's not actually reasonable to ask for "men-free spaces" because first of all, what even is that, and secondly, what are you even trying to do? Do you want all women to have access to those spaces or not? It's really that simple

And all of these things automatically get pushback.

Like, "allow multigender agency over the gendered spaces they enter" should be easy peasy if only because the community was on the respect nb people train right? Wrong. I think this is further evidence that nb people aren't fully integrated and respected.

At this point I'm ready to say "trans men, intersex people et al, gay men, and anyone else that feels like it, should be able to join women's centered spaces." Women's spaces are not actually about womanhood, in my experience. I've been in enough of them to know that cis women think they're about womanhood, when really . . .

Better title nine protections

Recognizing that women are also people

Has a process for reporting assault

Trauma counseling

Menstrual products

And of course

Assuming you're safe from abusers because there's no men there (not essential to the other services provided)

Like not to pop the PTSD bubble (the idea that there is something that can be done to avoid abuse that eventually transforms into "nothing can be done" and hypervigilance) but that's not how things work, exactly. I thought for a long time simply refusing to have parental figures would avoid abuse. Did I? No. I understand triggers. I know they're ridiculous and don't cooperate and it's nice to know there's at least one social space to meet people not full of terror. But: some of those women are already not actually women. They're nb. They're trans and don't know that yet. They're multigender. And they haven't all collectively been the thing causing the fear. This is no different than before but people have got to come to grips with their own cisnormative assumptions.

My first abuser was a woman and I was forced to get over that real fast and I don't want that to happen to others. I don't want to dismiss pain for the same of convenient political goals, like feminism.

But that doesn't change the fact that we have shit to do and women's spaces work better with dealing with trauma than any space that allows men. I don't know why we aren't creating a different support network specifically for the people with triggers in regards to men, then the one that supports trauma survivors and does activist work. Those are two goals and they're not compatible. There's even good language already established: women's centered spaces, and women's spaces. All that's left is to make truly women's spaces, for therapy purposes, and rebrand women's centered spaces. There's really no honesty in "women's spaces" when there are therapists who are men staffing it, men as secretaries and other jobs that women see to get those services. If Joe working the desk is fine, why is Multigender Frank kicked out?

This might seem tangential to multigender-ness but they're absolutely connected. And until people deal with the fact that trans men have 1) roughly the same mental illness rates as trans women 2) higher suicide rates than trans women, then any multigender trans man is going to deal with the same stuff. Because we're absolutely not dealing with anything well right now. I don't think waiting for the political fiasco in the United States to be over will help here, because it's never over. Helping the vulnerable is the entire point of the LGBTQ+ community more broadly and I don't see it at all.

[finding-my-path-of-healing]

Being mentally ill means having a Routine and if you don't do it, you're Screwed

[guidetothegaylaxy]

im actually enjoying the "show his mental illness trying to both protect and help him" aspect of black noir. I really feel like the scenes don't lose any gravity by being animated, because we're remembering as the character remembers

[kaeyasgender-moving]

Love crime lives in my mind rent free...

[slowtovvn]

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