I Am Who I Am

As well as being found under the tag #diagnosticchecklist, here is a masterpost of all of the checklists I have made so far. This provides some basic information about different mental disorders and can be used as a tool for communicating your symptoms with your mental health provider. They may also be used to self-diagnosing purposes, though further research is recommended if you qualify for a diagnosis.

Keep in mind that you may still receive a diagnosis if you do not meet the minimum requirements. Also keep in mind that your experience with a mental disorder exists on a spectrum, and there is no One True Experience for having a mental disorder.

Note: If you are seeing a reblogged version of this, be sure to check the original post, because I will be updating this post as I create more checklists. 

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Schizophrenia Spectrum

Psychosis

Schizophrenia

Schizoaffective Disorder (coming soon)

Catatonia (coming soon)

Mood Disorders

Bipolar Disorder

Cyclothymic Disorder (coming soon)

Major Depressive Disorder

Persistent Depressive Disorder/Dysthymia (coming soon)

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (coming soon)

Anxiety Disorders

Social Anxiety Disorder

Panic Disorder (coming soon)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Acute Stress Disorder (coming soon)

Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative Amnesia (coming soon)

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (coming soon)

Eating Disorders

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

Anorexia Nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa

Binge-Eating Disorder (coming soon)

Personality Disorders

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Anti-Social Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder (quiz version)

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Dependent Personality Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Alternate versions by pdpeach [x]

sword and shield

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

A good thing to know is that generally, the darker your skin is, the worse your scarring will be. I don't know why that is, but i was told by several doctors that i'm lucky i'm so white, and also seen it on other burnt people- dark skin scar harder. FYI.

Scars take time to set! It takes somewhere betweem 1-4 years for them to heal, and until then, they can DRASTICALLY change shapes(i remember in the early months, my face would completely change in a week. Fun times for an insecure teenager). That's the time when compression garments come into play, and also the time the scars DO have the streotypical pink coloration(not fucking RED. Instead, it'll be a similar color to your blush). The most common time for this to end is 2 years. After the scars calm down, they pretty much set, and get a color that's close to your natural complection, the colors you see in the tutorial.*

*so if the scars are pink, your character should have a compression garment on them! Zuko was NOT listening to his doctors, let me tell you

Even when the scars are constant, there are STILL changes in colors. My scars get super white when I overtax myself physically- instead of going red in the face, I just loose all color. My hands regularly go purplish in the winter, like they loose circulation(they don't. But the color looks like that). Other weather conditions also come into consideration.

Most mammals have, compared to humans, an elongated jaw. So a little tiny bump of a mammary gland is fine, just enough to get the nostrils away from the teat, and the young can freely breathe while nursing. However, as humans started using fire more and more to cook food - which softened it up, rendering powerful jaws less necessary - their jaws began to shorten, resulting in the development of the chin and other unique facial structures as the face flattened out.

This, of course, meant that babies could suffocate while nursing, which would obviously be bad. But what if... what if nipple further from chest? Bigger bump, so baby's nose have spot to go that isn't directly into mommy's chest? Oh, turns out that works! Of course, as more and more fat stores become dedicated to growing that breast mound to keep baby from suffocating, it becomes harder and harder for the mother to reabsorb that tissue when not nursing (as many other mammals do), so they just... don't. Knockon effects from there, and bam. Tiddies.