weird science!

personally one of my least favourite parts of psychiatry is how disorders (and disabilities, i think) are heavily emphasized as you can only be diagnosed with them if it actively negatively affects your every day life. and i get that, i guess it makes sense, but then what do you do if you just.. don’t live an every day life? when i tried to get an adhd diagnosis test a few years ago i was 17. the psychiatrist refused to let me take it, because it was meant for minors, so it HAD to be “teacher or guardian” to take it FOR the kid. so, here’s the thing. i was “homeschooled”. i have been since i finished fourth grade in a proper school. i was 10 when i left and had since at the time lived 7 years of not really getting a Real Education because i wasn’t actually given classes so i could be actually stable. but this also actively made it so my guardians really had no bearing on my life at the time. this disconnect resulted in my guardian agreeing with me when i said that they didn’t know me enough to fill out the parent forms, and that how i had been “taught” essentially caused every teacher form question N/A. we both insisted that i be let take a test for myself, because my situation was so unique that both options given were only going to give inaccurate results. the psychiatrist still refused. it might’ve been a legal issue, but i somewhat doubt it because when i had gone to my therapist a week later and talked about it, she had instantly pulled out a written adhd test for me to take. but honestly what brought this up was my ongoing questioning of If I Really Have personality disorder(s) or not. if you were not in a situation where you weren’t given a real education in an environment outside your home (therefore may not have expected to perform to certain expectations), and have not had to get a job, what do you do? how do you describe a disorder as “affecting everyday life a significant amount” if your life itself has so far been barely anything? i feel like i have a lot of solid “evidence” from a pile of anecdotes of things i thought were normal to experience that is WAY too fucking large to Be Nothing, but like. what happens to the people who are literally unable to describe their life so far as “sufficiently disordered” by medical standards because they haven’t been given a single chance to have that kind of life experience?

I feel like........ The increasing body positivity on here is great. Being fat is not a bad thing etc. But at the same time some of you still have really weird ideas about what counts as a fat person.....??? People will see a muscular man who isn't dehydrated + actively flexing and call him fat and it's just so bizarre to me what #society has done to our brains

And it's so hard to articulate. It's not a matter of "you're not fat" as in "you're still thin enough" it's "you're not fat" as in "it's fucking insane that being dangerously underweight has become the standard"

people get so sensitive when u say u hate ur mom like you're personally attacking their mom too... fuck off weirdo idc if you love your mom, i hate mine

funny how people act like mental illness is widely recognized and accepted and acted on better in current year because people with depression arent shunned anymore yet anybody with psychotic features/personality disorders/dissociative disorders/schizophrenia is still absolutely neglected and stigmatized and laughed at and are constantly the punch line for every joke and viewed with deep disgust by the majority of society

Yknow as an abuse survivor who is also very mentally ill largely as a result of that trauma it would be great if the people without anything more stigmatized than ptsd stopped blaming it on whatever they decided was wrong with their parents. Tbh

You weren't abused because they were "unstable"/etc you were abused because they didn't care about you. Maybe they were mentally ill, maybe they weren't. But blaming it on that only serves to further demonize the people who you claim to be advocating for (trauma survivors). I know how much you want to find a reason why that happened to you but sometimes people are just evil & you're gonna have to make peace with that instead of just calling everyone else who's trying to heal a monster

Maybe we shouldn't frame it as being "easy to manipulate" like it's your own fault maybe we should start saying "people who have already been conditioned to tolerate certain behavior are more likely to be continuously taken advantage of"

one day y'all are gonna realize that "it's how i cope" isn't a good excuse for engaging in shitty behavior

recovery horror: where the process of healing from something reveals previously unknown levels of damage

you guys realize ‘reblog bait’ is a trigger tag for psychosis that can be set off by posts that say things like ‘reblog this or your dog dies’ ‘reblog this or you’ll never be happy again’ ‘reblog this to win a million dollars’ and not for posts like ‘hey rb this and put in the tags x thing’ right

Do any other people with anxiety absolutely loathe the culture surrounding anxiety and anxiety recovery? I'm talking about all of these pastel-colored comics and Instagram infographics called things like "How to Deal with Anxiety Critters!" that present anxiety as some generic anthropomorphized creature saying ":( Oh nooo, you just stuttered! Now they think you're stupid!" It's just... idk it's infantilizing and doesn't really reflect the reality of anxiety and panic disorders at all.