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Validation - it’s ok that I hurt and want to feel better

Reassurance - I can handle this pain, even though it hurts and I don’t like it

Perspective taking: I’ve had bad days like this before, and my record of making it through them is 100%. I can also remember my better days, and know I’m not always hurting this much 

embracing the concept of neurodivergence

abandoning diagnosis as a prerequisite to mental health care

taking a holistic approach to recovery, acknowledging and attempting to find resolutions or coping mechanisms for outside issues that affect mental health like abuse, poverty, societal marginalisation, health issues like underlying physical illness, pain issues, sleep, exercise and diet with much emphasis on the “health at every size” mentality.

consumers of mental health care decide what is best for them.

 neurodivergent people decide which things they need help with and which ones they don’t. No forced behavioural therapy, no repressing of stims, no conversion therapy for lgbt individuals, no nonconsentual treatments whatsoever and no pressure to pursue treatments they don’t want.

consumers are allowed to have control over their medical treatment. with medical supervision, people should be allowed to decide for themselves which drugs work best for their recovery and are not blackmailed or forced to stay on drugs that make them feel bad. consumers should be encouraged to follow through with treatments they personally think will help and should never be denied access to therapy, rehab, inpatient care facilities or mood stabilisers and antipsychotics if they want them.

 consumers should be allowed to pursue hrt and dysphoria alleviating surgeries without extensive therapy or strict psychiatric evaluation, the only requirement should be informed consent.

- relatedly, an acceptance that some issues are in fact lifelong and that finding coping mechanisms can be the biggest help a therapist can give

Gender, Sex, Biology & Trans Women

Many of us understand sex and gender as categorically separate when envisioning trans women. How do we enforce transmisogyny through biological essentialist views of what we define as “sex” when imagining trans women? This storify examines how we enforce physical & ontological gender violence through non-consensual cisnormative separations of sex and gender. Sex is very much a gendered concept with its own colonial and violent baggage.

Note: This is a partial storify. Read the full version here

I always see skinny girls submitting things & no one ever associates fatness with beauty and I just wanted to share because you can beautiful AND fat.