#or maybe it’s the mental illnesss…

[handcat]

where’s that catcrumb of a cat screaming UNLOVED UNLOVED UNLOVED pls i need to post it for attention

[couthbbg]

the timeless and intrinsic hockey player desire to never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever change anything. ever. is soooo fascinating 🐛🔬

[hollyhomburg]

aren’t we all?

i feel like this isn't something we should say/shouldn't normalize. not everyone should want to d word all the time like- i get that we're all depressed as shit but. If we're all depressed as shit then i don't deserve help as much as the next person.

[webdoiis]

Not only did I have severe BPD in source, we're (us in the sys, vvv close friends, and family members, including ones with medical diagnosed BPD) currently VERY VERY VERY highly suspecting we have it now

[daddywarbats]

Night Country has a little bit of everything: murder, mysterious goings on, complex intergenerational trauma, the environment as character, mental illnesss, references to The Thing and other Horrors, continuity callbacks, corspesicles, maybe eldritch entities/maybe just the consequences of their actions (who knows?)

[notwaitinginthecorner]

Maybe i should go to a therapist and get diagnosed w something and then start checking off the disability thing re mental illnesss so tht I can worry less abt being fired for asking for time off bc im gonna kms

[forcedsense]

me, getting irrationally upset when i see ppl reblogging B/irds of M/argot being a self possessed asshat and erasing B/arbara Gor/don from her own team and C/ass a/utism coding when I, an a/utistic, hate when ppl do that shit, or worse seeing people praise her for once saying she ‘did a ton of research on obsession’ when clearly she didn’t cause she really thinks H/arleys an innocent little guppy when she’s just as bad if not in some cases WORSE than J/oker, which may be the has been put into a shitty position by a doctor not following their privacy rules bs but wanting to sell your patients secrets for a profit is FUCKED UP and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong: why does she taunt me 

[macabrevampire]

havin a scary night :<

[markets]

24 pages of big notebook world notes (plus my review stuff on the computer) like what 8 hours spent studying just for that class maybe 7-7:30 if you count breaks no hoes new mental illnessses formiing chem quiz tuesday WHOOOOO WANT ME!!!!!!!!

[meth-clefairy]

It hurts me how demonized schizophrenics are and how it is often seen as one of the most frightening disorders by families and even doctors...

And it frustrates me how many assumptions and lack of information and misinformation there is out there on schizophrenia, and how not much light is being shed on trying to understand this disease at all in the slightest really in a helpful or moving forward type of way. Not even really helping families understand the illnesss schizophrenia as well as professionals and even teachers, way more people should be able to assess a mental health crisis or know how to help a mentally ill person/persons

People always are so quick to try to assume what you hear or see if you hallucinate things even the professionals also assume for themselves and they make it out that it's the worst or that's it's gonna be exclusively frightening or only very bad when this is not always 100% the case.

Schizophrenics symptoms are all unique SCHIZO SYMPTOMS ARE ALL UNIQUE...

You can actually have good hallucinations and positive voices or supportive voices in or outside your head. You can also see or hallucinate things that you feel are comforting to you and that are helpful to you.

When I was young I used to see characters I liked in shows walking with me at school and stuff they would talk to me. I've been hearing voices for as long as I can remember but since 12 years old that's when they became the most noticeable from that point on I had assumed everyone heard voices. I was soon to discover that most people don't hear them but I still do hear them to this day.

I'm 23 years old I still hear my voices which are positive and from the particular shows I used to watch during periods of trauma, but maybe that's why they've stuck with me.

I love talking to the voices inside of my own head they often sound to me as if I have my own commentary always set on or something because they often only comment on my every move and thought and emotion or what have you

All I'm saying is you don't have to have 100% bad, scary or frightening hallucinations to be schizophrenic or psychotic you can also experience good and positive and even comforting hallucinations and or symptoms of psychosis for sure...

[glee-otis]

WEEK 5 Stigma of Mental Illness

1. Demonstrate to us what kind of research you have done so far?

I have done blog posts to ask for people’s opinions regarding stigmatization of mental and physical disabilities. On my previous blog posts I have written down the different replies I have gotten. 

I have done scientific research on brain scans for mental illness, and I think I need to further my research in the science behind mental health.

 The many interpretations and definitions make it hard to discuss mental health. A lot of stigma seems to arise from a lack of understanding and information regarding the topic. 

Breaking the Stigma and Shame of Mental Illness| Kitty Westin   https://youtu.be/OsRF8xGgbPA

2. Continued research this week.

Inclusivity: the fact or policy of not excluding members or participants on the grounds of gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, etc.

How can we become more inclusive?

"Spreading Awareness, Reducing Stigma: Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health Introduces its Faces of Mental Illness for 2016." Targeted News Service, Jul 13, 2016. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/1804516762?accountid=25324.

Article that discusses how Canada approaches mental illness awareness in a healthy manner. They hope to educate people on mental illness by allowing participants to share their story and recovery. 

Quote: “ ‘By continuing to share their stories and paths to recovery with the public, the Faces help others to want to do more to erase stigmatization. They inspire many of us to seek help and to support loved ones with a mental illness, and they encourage more action on the part of policymakers,’ continued Phelps.”

"Domestic Violence's Overlooked Damage: Concussion And Brain Injury." All Things Considered, 30 May 2018. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A541372431/OVIC?u=los12365&sid=OVIC&xid=1e7f6931. Accessed 2 Oct. 2020.

Quote: “STONE: Head and neck injuries are some of the most common. And Zieman is showing just how much traumatic brain injury is a part of that. The lack of recognition has left many survivors in the dark without a diagnosis, often blamed for their cognitive impairment.  ZIEMAN: They've been labeled for so long with all these horrible things. And in the end, it's not only not their fault but there is a true medical reason behind these issues. STONE: While many patients initially seek out the clinic because of physical symptoms, Dr. Zieman says their research shows anxiety, depression and PTSD usually end up being the most severe.” 

"UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS." US Fed News Service, Including US State News, May 04, 2012. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/1010847577?accountid=25324.

Quote: “According to Bela Sood, M.D., medical director of the center, mental illness is still considered taboo - in large part, because it is a problem that is not obvious to the naked eye. Much of it is behavioral in nature and belongs to a spectrum of behaviors that can go from normalcy to a point where they cause a disability. The disability is then observed to occur in very specific arenas, such as at school or within the home, and it is not obvious to observers until they begin to delve into it, said Sood.” Section under Mental Health Reasearch at VCU: “ ‘The center is an excellent site for research... testing cutting-edge mental health screening, assessment and treatments, said Michael Mason, Ph.’ ”

This article discusses the science of mental illness decreasing the stigma of mental health.

Movies and tv shows involving mental disorders.  13 Reasons Why, The Joker, Silver Linings Playbook, Split, etc.  Do these movies “glorify mental illnesss”?

3. What kind of take-aways and questions have you identified or stood out for you?

-This week helped me realize I needed to narrow down my topic even more. So I have decided to focus on the stigmatization of mental health. 

-Finding a neutral term for mental illness may be an important step to help approach the topic of stigma. Neutral words to consider: mental health 

-Instead of generalizing mental illnesses, maybe we just need to specify it as is. Ex: Depression, Bipolar, OCD, etc. 

-How do we integrate mental health, into our education system? 

-How can society become more inclusive towards those who are stigmatized. 

-Is digital information causing more harm and miscommunication? 

-More resources/funding is needed to to study more in depth about mental illness.

4. Who are people that you want to talk to about this issue? Who is active in your area? (designers, artists, activists, psychologists, scientists, et cetera) You should be sharing your project direction, but this time can also be used for further research and adding to your blog. 

I would love to speak with psychologists, psychiatrists, and someone who works with neuroimaging. Then I would like to speak with activists and people who are affected by mental illnesses. I think this would give me more insight of two different views. science vs. (emotion/experience?)

[rap541]

Thoughts on Legion, Ep 2

Palindrome310 at least will read this :)

So we’re at the Xavier Institute, I mean Summerland, and David is immediately told all of his mental illnesss issues are because of his powers. On the one hand, because a lot of the voices in his head aredue to his telepathy, he does need to be validated. On the other, he may have *other problems*. The interesting question I see is that David may be both full of powers and mentally ill at the same time. Which is a dangerous combo for Summerland...

I like the weirdly loving yet abusive dad who likes storybooks about little boys killing their mommies. I see why David has issues - the hints that his idyllic childhood before schizophrenia wasn’t so idyllic are fun.

Dan is surprisingly sweet as David. I quite enjoyed all of his scenes with Jean Smart, the girl playing Sid (the romance of the mind stuff was awesome) and the flashbacks of doing drugs with Lenny (oh Downton Abbey actors, when will you learn that smoking crack and saying “glittery c*nt” isn’t enough?)

The problem I am seeing with this show is that so far it’s SLOOOOOOWWWWW. I don’t mind but I can see why people are complaining about it. I suspect this will be the sort of show that's more fun to marathon so you can figure it out. On the plus side, they’re diverting from the Marvel verse so we can all enjoy it, on the other, if they aren’t relying on our knowledge of the comics then they need to get more plot and less style happening. I’m worried that they’re relying on being quirky and hoping we don’t ask too many questions.

I’m still glad they’re calling David schizophrenic (maybe) and not yet positioning multiple personalities.

[missingpersonscasesnetwork]

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[jay-jue]

July 7, 2017 6:25 AM 

I’ve been awake forever and I was feeling kind of content until i rose to say goodbye to my mom and she said ‘so this is why you quit your job? to stay up all night and be awake during the day?” if - idk - but under differetn circumstanceds i would have cried and / or i wuld have yeled ate her. i was angry they that she thought of me like that and that she saw me as patehtic i wanted to tell her whatever i wasnted wanted to tell her off i was anger and sad but now im really sad because i am really sad my life is really sad the only social interactions that wouere . were cood good for me wee were from work and they only cheered me up for a wlite little while and i went mback to being weirdly nummb i havent taken my meds i in a fver y very long time and idk whats been going on with me i really feeel like im not even living lk like im not real its so weird and i can t even say how i feel about it because i dont feel !!!!!!!!! please help before i do have eventually a breakdonwn and really kill myself. i dont know what is going on with me now ithat i quit my job i have nothing and i thought it would be good but ---- to reflet on me and my thoughts and finally gain myself again cause i was overwhlemlemd with al l the social interaction i needed a liong break and now that i have it i don t have any feelings left right now i want to be sad to feel something to make myself feel something i want to cry i want ot cry so much so i can fhave something to write about to fel feel to experience i am njust so mnumb idk why to what to do with my life with myself im pathertic why am i even ehere i would want o to be happy but hthen i would get sad because there isnt anything happy in my life the life i whave rn is really sad and miserable like i wouldnt wish it upon aynbody

im ugly i have friends but i cant even talk to them because there isnt anyting to talk aotu about anymore i dont have a hamster anmroe anymore so i can t bond with her i fdont have a tlanetallent like drawing or singging or dancing or whatever or writing i suck i feel like doing makeup but i dont at the same time cause im tired and lazy and sad im a sad perons i dont even knwo what to do online and i used to 

this is really just like the time i lost interest in all my bhobbies and just got in the internet maybe this is alnother low for me just when i could nt make it any lower. maybe my nexxt low will be lssleeeping forever which i walmsot almost do already ebecause my dreams are far better than realisty becasuet ehy they are exciting 

my job would be ecxciting but i honestly just feel hpathetic there and stupid idk i fee l like i dont belong and will never belong and honestly it is bmuch better at school where i at least will get an education and can do snothing when there si is nothin to do unlike at work when there is nothing to do you have to distract yourself and sseeem busy cause tehen you will fet get talked to 

this really is seeming like i am a litlte bitch brat but idk wi think i really do need therapy again because i honestly dont know how to funciton anymore i hardly ever think i need to do anything becside eat and go to the toiltet adnd sleep 

and if i wer e left alone to fned for mysefl i would probably just disppoint everyone and be a watste of space caseu i will do nothign and bprobaly kill myself yo i am horrible

i litterally have nothin g to be sad about but here i am being miserable iwithout sleep and i really dont like myself i mean a few days ago i came up to think about how gorgeous i am and my body curves and lumps are gorgeous and beautliful and i tricked myseflf ror a for a good two minutes probably but boy when i thoguth that i ddi the most make ups i did since chisrstmat chirsmast and i still felt ugly as fuck and ugh i wasnted wanted to kill myself i stil l do but id ont awant to do the work i just want my life to end suddenly i usled to think i was clinically depressed but i am not i cry alot or at least i jused to not i cant even do anything its harder and harder to get out of me bed because i dont even want to i just want to sgo back to sleep and stay there forever in my fdreams and if i was living alone without needings to do any respond siblity i would sleep forever only to get up to seat a little and slgo to teh bathroom and i would just be miserable like that forever it would be kinda good because dmy dreams are pretty cool i havent have a nightmare in along time with ch is good 

i wish i didnt have such anxidety tand depresssion to make me quit work i cant believe it mebeat me i thougth i could stay at he job the whole summer and seniour year but here i am jobless i was fsoooooo forutunate enough to ge t the job becasue so many people allppply and here i am with the job handed to em and here i am rejecteing it just becasue of mental illnesss that i dont am not sure exists maybe im just laszy i hate mysefl so much for not being storong enough ot get back ot work i hate mysefl so much i hate myself so much i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself i hate mysefl i hate msysle i hate mysefl fi hate myseflf i hate mysefl fso ssofosfjsofisdknfdsahviuana;reilhvaouvndjsasfj i want to die i want to kill mysefl.