#paranoid too with good reason

[dessertbird]

Daily Destiel 💙💚

We need to talk. I'm dreaming, aren't I?

It's not safe here. Someplace more private. More private? We're inside my head.

Exactly. Someone could be listening. 😳🤔😔

[spooky-activity]

Practicing my comic paneling and action poses with some Firefly/Stelle angst. Set immediately after the end of patch 2.1, where we find out Firefly is still alive!

+ bonus

[13eyond13]

I think sometimes we see Light as a bit of a more eccentric character than he might otherwise normally appear because the circumstances we see him in are HIGHLY unusual ones, too. Like yes he's paranoid and neurotic and always overthinking the littlest interactions and excessively secretive and scheming, but he's also trying to avoid being caught and put to death for murder with a magic notebook the entire time haha

[frnkiebby]

welp. yeah.~🎃

[atomiclace]

who knew that some agere people would be the worst type of people to exist (talking about you spinny)

[rowenabean]

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[synthshenanigans]

Continuing from my last post bout Mind, we also need to talk more about how paranoid & untrusting/second-guessing your mind can be cause i think its very interesting

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

Call me crazy but I think you might need someone to gently hold you

😭 help me.

[toastsnaffler]

yeah I'm not gonna talk abt it am I...

[reflectionsandrhetoric]

I've seen people misuse some words so I wanted to clarify them. Starting with pedophilia, which the sources gathered by Wikipedia state they would like people to stop misusing the word.

Disclaimer: I am not a licensed therapist or psychologist nor am I studying to be one. I just like learning things, especially about psychology, and reading the DSM-5.

My thoughts are in parentheses for those who don't want to read them.

Pedophilia, according to the sources gathered on Wikipedia:

"is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children" and "psychiatric diagnostic criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13"

(If someone's attracted to teenagers older than that, that's called ephebophilia although it "strictly denotes the preference for mid-to-late adolescent sexual partners, not the mere presence of some level of sexual attraction. It is not a psychiatric diagnosis"). 

Wiki also notes that the common use of pedophilia:

"conflates the sexual attraction to prepubescent children with the act of child sexual abuse and fails to distinguish between attraction to prepubescent and pubescent or post-pubescent minors. Such use should be avoided, because although some people who commit child sexual abuse are pedophiles, child sexual abuse offenders are not pedophiles unless they have a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children, and many pedophiles do not molest children"

(AGAIN, NOT EVERY CHILD MOLESTER IS A PEDOPHILE AND NOT EVERY PEDOPHILE IS A CHILD MOLESTER. If you're talking about someone who actually sexually abused a real child, please please please call them a child molester and not a pedophile).

There's also Pedophiliac Disorder, which the DSM-5 differentiates from pedophilia. In order to be diagnosed with Pedophiliac Disorder according to the DSM-5:

"A. Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger).

B. The individual has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.

C. The individual is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children in Criterion A.

Note: Do not include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12- or 13-year-old."

Also according to the DSM-5:

"Attempting to diagnose pedophilic disorder at the age at which

it first manifests is problematic because of the difficulty during adolescent development in differentiating it from age-appropriate sexual interest in peers or from sexual curiosity"

(In other words, stop calling middle schoolers pedos, stop calling 18 year olds dating someone less than 5 years younger than them pedos, and stop clutching your pearls over high school teens not 18 being sexually active because it's normal and healthy even if they can't vote yet; age of consent = / = age of majority).

And the DSM-5 notes that:

"the highest possible prevalence for pedophiliac disorder in the male population is approximately 3%-5%. The population prevalence...in females is even more uncertain, but it is likely a small fraction of the prevalence in males".

(In other words, it's unlikely you'll come across someone with the disorder and it's not as common as people are dramatically panicking about. And antis, stop assuming proshippers would harm children, because it's not as common as you were mislead into believing and most people believe in the same things proshippers do they just don't call themselves that. These assumptions are just paranoia and it's not healthy to that paranoid, especially when you have little to no evidence to justify that paranoia).

[stizzysupremacy]

Izzy haters would largely not think as badly of Izzy as they do if he was played by a younger guy with generically-handsome-tv-star good looks. his actions would not be so irredeemable to them. They’d be talking about a love triangle instead of izzy “getting in the way” of the canon ship.

[thekimspoblog]

Demon trying to feed on my insecurities: "You're a bad driver"

Me: "Of course I am. I hate driving. Going 80 mph surrounded by tons of metal is nerve-wrecking. I try to do it as little as possible. Of course I'm bad at it"

Demon: "You're a bad writer"

Me: "Well that part's simply not true. I never claimed I was the greatest author of my generation, but when I put pen to paper I know what I want to communicate and I usually do it well. If someone isn't impressed with my work, that's unfortunate but they're entitled to their opinion"

Demon: "You're a bad leader"

Me: "Well I don't know about that! I mean there was that one time when... Ok look just because people don't see me as an authority figure doesn't mean... 😠 You know you can be a real asshole, demon!"

[girl-bateman]

Some days I'm pretty content with my childhood other days I'm ripping my hair out because it just doesn't add up !! someone is hiding things from me !! I don't trust anyone !!

[todayisafridaynight]

most confusing order history to someone without seven layers of mental illness decaying their brain

[bocceclub]

it just occurred to me very recently that I probably got pulled over so often in college because the cops saw my bright red 2000s sport SUV beater with stickers for a public college and thought they could bust me for possession

[a-very-fond-farewell]

tried to take a day off from writing. still woke up at 5am. let’s write then 😈🔥