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I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this

anyone remember #cutforbieber and #cutforzayn. a cult of teenage girls cutting themselves to better the fate of their idol. there was something very intrinsic about it…like a bloodletting ritual. couldn’t happen today.

i notice this weird phenomenon where tims are outed for having incest and pedophilic porn fantasies but people excuse it because he identifies as trans. It very much gives: I hate pedophiles. but don't hate on pedophiles who are trans!!! It's as if being trans abolishes him from any wrongdoing 🤨 face the consequences like everybody else who’s into that disgusting shit

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

Or when you change your last name for marriage. And despite it all being digitized on their end, they still require taking entire days at the DMV and Social Security Office

fucking the text man for texts one of society's most influential works

i have a secret third opinion about self dx discourse which is “why are you guys treating the DSM like it’s the fucking bible”

the amount of leftists who uncritically support the DSM-5—wielding it online in battles against random individuals who might be “faking” a disorder—boggles my fucking mind. you guys realize that the DSM-5 isn’t the only diagnostic manual on the planet, right? you realize that we place it at the top of the global hierarchy because it’s american, right? has it occurred to you that the APA shouldn’t have so much authority over what counts as a “real” mental illness? has it occurred to you that perhaps there are other diagnostic manuals? in fact, there are dimensional models that don’t rely on sorting individuals into “disorder/no disorder” boxes in the first place. food for thought, lmao

I’m so proud of myself for no longer being conflict-avoidant or conflict-initiating but mostly just conflict-meeting.