Bipolar Memes

hate how when people talk about awful labor conditions at [insert industry or company here] people who have benefited from said company or industry's services feel the need to justify themselves so badly and will try to come up with progressive reasoning for it as well

Things people hate hearing:

there is something very sad and humiliating about having to desperately beg doctors and family members to understand that involuntary institutionalization does not in fact help your mental health, knowing your perspective will always be dismissed at the end of the day

it's awful that researchers are only now starting to take this perspective seriously, but there is a small but growing body of study supporting exactly what patients have been saying about psychiatric incarceration. one study in particular, from Allegheny county in Pennsylvania, offers a damning analysis of involuntary psychiatric commitments:

And on the topic of the ‘crazy ex girlfriend’, a man I know was in a long term relationship with a woman with severe bipolar disorder who was off and on meth and became abusive when she was using. He never called her his crazy ex. He never spoke about her like she was an inhuman piece of shit born simply to inconvenience him. He did not dehumanize her. He was candid about how she was a destructive force in his life and he realized he could not help or save her and that he had wasted years trying to get her out of a quagmire she didn’t want to escape from. I have never heard him refer to her as ‘crazy’ even once, though she suffered from severe bipolar disorder that she was self-medicating with methamphetamine and in turn suffered from meth psychosis.

he doesn't have instagram and hasn't updated his facebook since 2019 so i've been beating it to some linkedin pics of him speaking at a conference