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Needing to go see the same system to fix “my” problem caused by that same system has to be some sick twisted joke

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idk i think a lot of people sort of build up schizo-spec diagnoses in their head as this example of a "clearly biomedical disease that is the scariest possible example of mental illness that is always a crisis no matter what." and i'm not going to sit here and say that schizoaffective is always pleasant to live with, or pretend that it's something that I can manage perfectly-it does cause me distress a lot of the time, and makes some things very difficult. but for me, psychosis is by far not the most difficult symptom i have to deal with, compared to some of the other things that have brought me distress. And yet it's always the symptom that is reacted to with the most fear, confusion, and disgust by other people. I hate it when people generalize psychosis as always and inherently and forever a crisis, and ignore the fact that everyone who experiences psychosis is going to have their own experiences, perspectives on how it impacts them, and that treating psychosis as a super scary, inherently dangerous symptom is incredibly stigmatizing and prevents us from receiving support and care from our communities.

idk. i just really wish people would realize that for some people, psychosis can sometimes be a neutral or even positive experience (i've had some incredibly lovely psychosis experiences), and that by positioning psychosis as a "super scary disease that has no quality of life" and only offering carceral solutions, it perpetuates a pattern where we get continually pushed into harmful treatments. Instead of a situation where our autonomy is respected, where we're offered a wide variety of treatments from meds to therapies to peer support like Hearing Voices Network to material community based support and where we're allowed to define our own experience of psychosis based on how it actually affects us. like, i don't want to deny that psychosis is often distressing for many of us--but I do think we have the responsibility to evaluate where we've learned about psychosis, what societal messages we've internalized about psychosis, what kinds of knowledge about psychosis do we not have access to, and just actually think in depth about how our biases impact how we communicate about psychosis.

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I finally caved and started listening to tma and this is the man yall are horny about? this british smartass of a librarian??? the one who is so dismissive of every single story that he would certainly die first in a horror movie???? what. I was promised a office romance and got the most fucked up stories read by a bored man with a organisation kink who hates all his coworkers

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so much cruel rhetoric going around and around and around in a circle. and only the people whom it hurts notice or care that its fucked up. but we're the mentally ill ones so our perspective is simply false. <- yet another dehumanizing circle. im so tired of the circles.

i need ppl to understand that gaslighting is literally ingrained into the way that mentally ill people are treated. ii need people to understand that coercion (bad!) and manipulation (bad!) and force (bad!) and violation of bodily autonomy (bad!) are all ingrained into the common methods of "treatment". i need people to understand that the rhetoric about the sup par mental capacity of mentally ill people is literally the justification used to do violence against us, and even if someone DOES truly have less mental capacity, that still doesn't mean its okay!!!!!! like how much of everywhere all the time is the message literally "this thing thats USUALLY BAD is fine to do because its being done TO A MENTALLY ILL PERSON" as of thats not the line of reasoning that oppression and violence always takes. its not that doing the bad thing is bad, its who you're doing it to. it argues that the very existence of mentally ill people is inherently a threat to the normal people around them, so the very presence is an attack. and everything that is done to them after that is justified. bruh.

i find it so exhausting how leftists recognize these patterns in other contexts but its clear that yall arent actually using your brains to explore other areas where those patterns exist... its like anti psych is so incredibly niche and it makes me feel like im losing it. its literally right there if you were to listen to any people who've been abused in """"treatment"""""" and applied some of the actual values you report to have (believe victims! listen to victims! care for your community! use your brain! consider vulnerable people!) for 2 seconds.... its maddening seeing how all the lip-service and propaganda has worked so easily. when its so easily debunked. when its so intuitively bad. yes you actually have to listen to other people and yes you actually have to use some critical thinking and yes you do actually have to care about other people even if you dont understand them or maybe even scare you, and recognize that that fear is a side effect of living in a society that demonizes certain people groups. wrow.

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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

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i dream of the day that psychiatric institutions no longer exist. i dream of the day when no mad person ever again is confined against their will.

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Here's your (not so gentle) reminder that empathy does not make you a good person, your actions do. You having the right emotions during a situation does not make you a good person. Your actions do. Someone not having empathy or lack of emotion does not make them an abusive individual.

There are many, many people who I have met who claim to be "empaths" who were and are entirely more abusive than the people without empathy who I have met.

You can learn to work with having no empathy, you can learn to work with not having the "correct" emotions. The phrase "basic human empathy" is entirely ableist as fuck and empathy is not what makes someone human.

Let me restate that last sentence really fucking clearly:

Empathy is not what makes someone human.

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anti-psych / psych-critical schizospec culture is being tired of hearing your disorder used as the "one exception" every time someone argues against nonconsensually medicating people.

just because I'm psychotic doesn't mean you get to drug me! you will make things worse!

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Little reminder that Socialist Alternative is a political cult. Their main goal is recruitment and they do not care. They are known for being racist , especially to Blak people, they have caused little if any change and except hinder a lot of actions. Once you join they are incredibly hard to leave. This goes for their branch off orgs too, such as S4P, which have the same issues and ar just recruiting fronts. You cannot seperate them.

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@stxrpo do you happen to know of this bird and if yes I would like more

Pennant-winged Nightjar (Caprimulgus vexillarius), male, family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, South Africa

photographs by Manfred Suter

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Angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry angry

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Me when patches <3 <3 <3

I love making patches so much, like I just get to cut and paint and sew these phrases and pictures all over myself and items and they can be as stupid or meaningful as I like. And I get to make stencils I get to use over and over and over again and I can share them with friends and they make h to sit own patches and it’s just arghshhshs

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Born to say prison abolition includes an psych abolition. Forced to say I understand why you have to do it for my safet.

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"we need more weird queers!!"

you start parroting TERF talking points the milisecond someone says they are a lesboy or gaygirl

you cry when mspec lesbians/gays exist

you refuse to use neopronouns or it/its, even when those are a persons only set of pronouns

you expect a-specs to experience attraction in some way (yes, that includes platonic attraction)

you exclude intersex people

you can't even accept furries.

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A guy from socialist alternative was harassing my mates at the protest so I handed them cards with info about what to do if they were arrested as a nonverbal queue to help them out of the conversation and the little cunt rolled his eyes at ME?? Listen here you little shit, YOU’RE the one peddling your wears with your electronic card reader trying to capitalize on indigenous and poc deaths and drumming up recruits because you have no soul! Outta my fkn way I got information to share and pigs to monitor. “Socialist”, my left fucking NUT

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I wish luck to all my American friends