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1: The Psychotic Spectrum ...And My Own Experience (A Guide!!) =D

In the middle of the graphic, OP wears a button up shirt and a sweater over top. The shirt collar sticks out from the colour of the sweater. The shirt is buttoned all the way up. OP has shaggy shoulder length hair and black nails. They are wearing glasses. An arrow points at them reading, "Brought to you y a schizospec guy."

"No, I am not a cold-hearted psychopath," they say, gazing tiredly to the left, "nor is that silly thought of yours a "delusion"...."

2: Introduction To The Topic:

All fingers extended and hand flat, OP gestures sharply as they say, "Psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, are still widely misunderstood disorders. Many people fear other psychotic people and have very wrong views about them, believing they're dangerous, cold, without empathy, and most media display us as serial killers or make us the abusers.

This is simply [red font] not true! It's been proven that psychotic people are the one's more prone to getting abused or being victims of abuse. [end rent font]

3: The text continues. "Sadly, there is still bad representation in media displaying psychosis/schizophenia." Below the title are two examples of poor representation. OP is drawn small at the bottom, lineart only. They continue on with, "Either they display psychosis like something "magical" (making it seem like a superpower)." The example used is Donnie Darko. "Or make them violent criminals": Norman Bates in Psycho is the example.

"But there is also good representation." The example used is A Beautiful Mind, although OP add, "Somewhat I guess", indicating that it's still not the best representation

4: Here are some pyschotic spectrum disorders:

Schizophrenia

Schizoaffective disorder

Delusional disorder

Schizophreniform disorder

Bipolar

Brief psychotic disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder

In an asterix to the side, OP adds that depression with pyschotic features also exists and some people with BPD also experience psychosis.

5: Symptoms of Psychosis:

Halluciation (auditory, tacticle, visual, olfactory, etc,,,)

Delusions (grandiose, persecutory, somatic, erotomanic, etc,,,)

Disordered thinking and inappropriate behaviour (disorganized speech, derailment, tangential thining, catatonia, etc,,,)

Negative symptoms (reduced emotional expression, decreased motivation, reduced speech, anhedonia, etc,,,)

And more

In the upper right corner, OP frowns, brows furrowed nervously as three bugs crawl on them. Two spiders on their shoulder and a beetle on their hand. The bugs are a hallucination, possible tactile and/or visual. They are draw in red lineart only to indicate this.

In the lower left corner, OP shakes in place. Their eyes are closed, but thier mouth is open, downturned. They are uncomfortable. Red scribbles are drawn in their head, where their brain would be. This is likely an interpretation of the Disordered Thinking symptom. The shaking indicators around OP were also drawn in red.

6: "Delulu is the selulu!" "I'm so delusional over him!" I'm just... gonna put this here...

Underneath the title is a screenshot from the wikipedia page on delusions. It reads, "A delusion is a false [underline] fixed belief that is not amenable to change [end underline] in light of conflicting evicence. As a pathology, it is [underline] distinct [end underline] from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as [underline] individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs [end underline] upon reviewing the evidence."

Beneath the screenshot, text reads, "Delusions are not funny, nor are they quirky. I have extremely debiltating paranoid delusions that cause me to fear the public because I'm convinced everyone is watching me or out to get me. I also struggle undressing inmy own room because I believe my posters or secret cams are watching me." An arrow points out from the paragraph to read, "The same goes for like "the voices told me to dye my hair! xD"... It's just annoying."

Drawn tired in the lower right corner, OP adds, "Your crush not reciprocating your feelings or you being obsessive over someone doesn't make you delusional... It also pains us psychotic people constantly having our issues "meme-ified" or being used for jokes... People have stopped taking me serious or laugh at me..."

7: 4 Key Facts: (source: world health organization)

Schizophrenia specifically affects approximatley 24 million people or 1 in 300 people (0.32%) worldwide; it's not as common as other disorder.

Stigma, discrimination and violation of human rights of people with schizo-disorders are sadly common

Onset is most often during lat adolescense and twenties.

Schizophrenia and early psychosis awareness day is May 24th! (Ribbon color is silver)

OP is drawn smiling with their eyes closed. Two sparkles are drawn beside their head.

8: I Am Schizophrenic.

Nervously OP holds their hands together in front of their chest. They gaze off-screen, cheeks coloured in light gray. "And being honest, it's always scary opening up about my psychosis without being judged, made fun of, or being feared. I don't "look" like my disorder and fear not being taken seriously. I'm always afraid I'll be seen as insane if I open up about my symptoms/diagnosis."

9: "I just hope to spread a better image or view on psychotic people by showing that even artist like me can be schizo and that we are not what the media makes us out to be."

OP smiles softly at the viewer, hands and arms tucked behind their back. The blush is still evident on thier cheeks. Two arrows point at them from either side. They read, "Just a guy! Litterally funny dogdude!"

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Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

hi hiiii it's j again .. thank you to everyone that's helped keep me afloat over these last few months,, it's been! rough! on a lot of fronts! but we're pushing through.

my partner got us a house and we'll be moving over this next month! thankfully our first big house payment won't be until the beginning of august, but moving is an expensive endeavor, i still have utility bills to pay, and i need to eat :')

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