why is it considered ok when neurotypicals label themselves “cute but ps*cho”. y’all will wear ps*cho on a t-shirt and put ps*cho as the title of your blog for aesthetic purposes and that’s considered perfectly fine, but when someone with (for example) a personality disorder puts their personality disorder in their blog description we get a 50k note post about how that’s not okay.
why is it considered ok when neurotypicals sexualize characters they deem mentally ill. ya’ll literally fetishize mental illness when you think a fictional murderer has one, but actual mentally ill people can’t even cope with our illnesses the way we want to without being told that we’re glorifying or romanticizing them.
why is it considered ok when neurotypicals aestheticize asylums and straight jackets but demonize the kinds of people that were in them.
why is it okay to continuously try to demonize and silence mentally ill people when we’re just trying to cope, survive, and live in a world that hates the reality of us, but is absolutely obsessed with the idea of us?
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Super nice things to do for someone who has depression
Standard– Chances are their room is a disaster and they have -846 motivation to do anything about it. Helping them tidy up will make them feel a little less overwhelmed.
– Do their laundry. Even small chores seem to pile up when a person is depressed and not having clean clothes won’t make them feel any better. Washing their bedding is also great.
– Try to convince them to go for a short walk with you. There is a good chance they will feel a lot better after.
– If you can’t get them outside, at least open a window for fresh air and let some sunshine in.
– Prepare them a healthy meal with some fresh fruit. Many depressed people fall into bad eating patterns.
– If they aren’t eating enough, make sure they are taking a multi vitamin since not getting enough of a vitamin causes depression
– Make them a warm, nice smelling bath. Aromatherapy is a great way to treat depression and anxiety.
– Write them a letter or card to read for when they’re feeling really bad.
– Make them a recovery playlist with some of their favourite songs and anything up lifting.
– Make them laugh.
– Make them a cup of tea and sit with them.
– Listen to them and try to understand what they’re feeling.
I’m dating someone who does this stuff and more for me. For the first time ever. It’s really a blessing and not a day goes by that I don’t appreciate all of the little things, because at the end of the day they are actually the big things. Take care of your lovers.
Living With Chronic, Severe, Untreatable Depression
StandardMeans:
*Never being able to trust my own thoughts and feelings
*Spending huge amounts of time, money, and energy chasing treatments that never work
*Being socially isolated and lonely because the world is not meant for people like me
*Being unable to relate or connect with other people unless they are also depressed
*Sense of paralysis with no motivation to do anything
*Having no hope in my future
*Being obsessed with death
*Constant, unrelenting exhaustion
*Alternating between sleeping and crying all day
*Extreme sensitivity to loss, rejection, trauma
*Feeling very sad for my family when I realize I will most likely end my life
*Experiencing all of these things even though I am in talk therapy and on medication like the perfect model patient.
anonymous writer
Meek Mill on Sway In The Morning
sleep on meek if you want to
He woke.
Shout out to black girls with depression.
Shout out to black girls with anxiety.
Shout out to black girls coping with their mental and/or physical physical illness.
Shout out to black girls with scars from bad habits.
Shout out to all of my black girls struggling to be strong because society tells us we have to be.Shout out to black girls.
Keep your heads up. I love you.
My therapist told me something meaningful yesterday, she said “It’s important to remember that when you’re depressed you have to nurse yourself and be extra gentile towards yourself. Just like an athlete wouldn’t break an ankle then force themselves to run that ankle. They rest as it heals and do not think “I am a failed athelete” they think, “right now something isn’t working so i’ll take care of myself until it does.“
Just like a broken bone, depression can change the way your daily life plays out, and pushing yourself too hard and getting frustrated when you don’t feel better is just like trying to run on that broken ankle and getting frustrated when it doesn’t heal.
Read this. Then read it again. And then save it and read it over and over when you are depressed.
but like neurotypicals need to get it through their heads that people with personality disorders can be abused much differently than them. Repeatedly and purposefully ignoring borderline people is abuse. Taking advantage of the trust of dependent people and leaving them on their own to "test them” is abuse. Little things they may not consider being abuse may actually BE abuse to those people. So like stop pretending that what we call abuse “isn’t legitimate” just because it’s not in your neurotypical standards of what is and isn’t abuse.
Some things I’ve learned in the CBT clinics I’ve been going to regarding anxiety that I thought might be helpful to some.
I need to show that panic disorder one to a lot of people wow
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I’ve never seen a post about social anxiety which includes the bit about being REALLY outgoing in order to mask imperfections, which is EXACTLY what I do. This is a really great overview of the different anxieties and phobias.
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