Psychotic Safe Place

anyways schizospec and psychotic people who are also horror fans are stronger than any u.s. marine

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It sounds kinda dramatic but I think psychosis (particularly schizophrenia) is often socially regarded as a form of death. Psychotics aren't seen as real, living people so much as ghosts or fragments of our sane selves.

Exactly! One of the things I say most often when I am asked about being psychotic, surviving it, how anyone else is meant to do the same, is that it is not a death sentence. Society treats schizospec disorders as the end of the line and makes it so hard to hope for recovery and a happy life when you are told so often this is a form of death. The narrative we are handed is dismal and fake and you should discard it because life is still worth living. You're still alive to live it.

People with psychosis aren't fucking entertainment. We aren't here to be stared at. We aren't here to satisfy anyones twisted amusement. None of us are media to be consumed. Our purpose to live isn't to be laughed at. The reason we survive isn't to be made a mockery of. We're people.

Tell yourself the things you want others to tell you. Do the things you want others to do for you. Hold your own hand, sit with yourself, talk nicely to yourself, you are allowed to give yourself affection and care.

Your support for other schizophrenics shouldn't end at people who are sicker than you. you should still be advocating for those who are more symptomatic, especially the ones who are "erratic" and "scary". Those are the ones of us who need the most support and they don't deserve to be thrown under the bus because you feel they make us look bad.

I hope Black girls with anxiety have a good day today.

I hope Black girls with depression have a good day today.

I hope black girls with PTSD have a good day

I hope black girls with body dysmorphia have a good day

I hope black girls with verbally abusive parents gave a good day

I hope autistic black girls and black girls with ADHD have a good day

I hope black girls with schizospec and/or personality disoders have a good day today

i hope all mentally ill and or disabled black girls have a good day

I hope chronically ill & people pleasing Black girls have a good day today 🫂

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

You don't have to force yourself to bounce back so quickly. I read something recently that said "when you come in from a rainstorm, you don't expect yourself to be dry and warm right away", and it really resonated with me. It's okay to take time to dry off and warm up. Take the time you need to process what happened to you.