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in fact there IS a good grade in therapy that is (always) normal to want and (sometimes) possible to achieve in part through being labelled "insightful" and "self-aware" and it is to avoid being stripped of your autonomy and forcibly medicated + incarcerated. but of course the people treating this as laughably irrational - who think of therapy, in essence, as two people voluntarily talking in a room - are often the ones for whom this risk is the lowest

people talk about "why are some therapists so bad" like hmm i wonder why a job that gives you the ability to feed people false information and take away their bodily autonomy and freedom under the guise of "care" would attract so many cruel/bigoted/uncaring people. i guess it's a mystery....

When I say I want pysch meds to be less stigmatized I don't just mean people should be allowed to talk about the ways meds helped them, or talk about how they used to have depression and then meds cured them. People need to be allowed to talk about the way medication has harmed them and hurt them, about going off of meds, about the way the system forces meds onto people and doesn't care about their well beings, about side effects that most neurotypical people would find horrifying, about not wanting to be on meds, about being on meds but not magically becoming normal. The neurodivergent/mentally ill experience should not be watered down to make people comfortable, and especially not to make people comfortable with the largely neurotypical run medical system that often victimizes us as much as it helps us.

sorry for the nervous breakdown everyone im actuallt fine because i have to be

I really hate when you’re having a bad day and everyone takes it personally, like no I hate myself and I’m pissed I woke up today, it’s not you, get the fuck over yourself.

i feel like i deserve more credit for getting up in the morning

go outside and touch some electrified barbed wire

If ever I post anything that seems more questionable than charming, just assume it’s actually performance art about the human condition.