#— psyche rants

[soft-jinx]

not that people who've been to the ward are immune from being pro-psych, but if you've never been to a psych ward*, i sincerely don't want to hear about how psychiatry/psychology is good because you've had such a good experience with X provider, or X medication saved your life. *i also don't want to hear about how the forced treatment was what you needed or how the ward you went to let you have your cellphone etc. etc. i genuinely do not want to hear it.

like. the first hospitalization traumatized me so bad, i became dangerously delusional, was re-hospitalized, and sent to state. when they transferred me, i was strapped down into a gurney at all points on my body, *head and neck included*, and loaded onto an ambulance. my parents lost most of their parental rights; i was a ward of the state and had near zero rights. when i got there, they made me choose if, "if necessary," if i wanted to be wrangled down and forcibly injected with a sedative... or wrangled down and locked in a padded room all by myself (but at least i had a choice, right?). i signed consents and paperwork that i did not fucking understand. then i was told i'd be locked inside for 2 straight weeks (which yes, they followed through with). the psych ward was remote, nothing but barbed fences and trees around us. cant even see the sun through the heavily tinted windows. that was the *start* of the stay. i'm sure you can imagine nothing good came after.

so like. if you walk out of a place like that thinking it was good for you, then i can only imagine how traumatized you are and i hope you heal someday. but if you've never faced the destruction of your autonomy like that and go around being like "oh this is good actually" then shut the ever living fuck up.

[zappylionlover]

Yall do realize to be as high rank, rich, and to win even somewhat consistently/be good at gambling, you can't just have great luck-

Youd have to have a *damn good* understanding of statistics, reading people (especially body language), and psychology (yes, including how to abuse it to manipulate people and get what you want)

And to do all that without a formal education? That takes some SERIOUS fucking work/skill

So stop calling aventurine stupid or "low iq"

Theres a damn good reason ratio- mister i cant stand looking at idiots- wasnt wearing his plaster head around aventurine, and it's because he isnt fucking stupid

And if aventurine is playing stupid, you should be fucking worried.

[sophfandoms53]

anyways i am very much still thinking about this,,, i have not moved and i will never move on

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

can we stop the trend of putting traumatized and mentally unstable characters into romantic relationships as their “happy endings”?

[ch3rrybite]

i would have loved you like they did in the myths—recklessly, desperately, with the kind of devotion that makes gods jealous. i’d have turned rivers to wine just to hear you laugh, stolen fire to keep you warm. you’d have been my sanctuary, my ruin, my reason to defy the heavens.

they would have written songs about us. called us tragic, called us fools, called us immortal. and they’d be right. because even when the world crumbled around us, i’d have clung to you, begged the fates to weave us back together, again and again.

you could have been my helen, my eurydice, my psyche. my everything.

but here i am, mortal and alone, clutching the echoes of a love that never came to be.

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Clinical misdiagnosis is more common than self misdiagnosis. Just for the record, in case anyone is still skeptical of self diagnosis :) it’s not up for debate btw

[the-firefly-jar-system]

i’m so tired of the “psych ward patient” stereotypes. i’m so tired of the bloody costumes, the straightjackets, the unkempt hair that’s supposed to signify they’re “crazy”. i was in a (pediatric) psych ward. we were all just children. hurt and traumatized children. yes, sometimes we were unkempt and neglected ourselves. yes, sometimes we were violent towards ourselves or others. we were children. i’m so fucking over demonizing mentally ill people. i don’t care what your justification is, this shit hurts kids like me and the others in the hospital with me

-ash

[paranoidpdsuggestion]

There's a unique hell to be experienced if you're someone who's any type of self aware of your paranoia and/or delusions and you try your best to not 'freak out' over them ever due to masking or just wanting to maintain some sort of self-control so people aren't cruel to you... because now people will not take your issues with paranoia/delusions seriously and not believe you even have them.

Family, friends, therapists, other professionals, ANYONE you may try and talk to about your issues with will dismiss your concerns with the bullshit 'oh, but you seem to be aware, so it doesn't look like it's really a problem then', because most of these people think the only way to experience paranoia/delusions is when paired with hallucinations and breakdowns. Society punishes people who act out - you're called crazy and outcasted and people want you locked up in a psyche ward - but when you try your best to behave 'normally', people just act like you're being dramatic and/or you'll get over it easily, or they're just straight up invalidate you and say you aren't experiencing anything.

Like... no, they're affecting my life, and very badly! Just because I'm not overtly breaking down in front of people every time they flare up and get really bad for me doesn't mean it's not ruining my life and sanity and relationships!! Do I really need to throw myself on the floor and start screaming when it gets bad for me again so someone will finally believe my struggle? You really can't ever win when it comes to mental illness and it's so damn depressing and infuriating.

[sickness-stricken]

Y'all ever think about how fucked up it is that you can be prescribed things like anti-depressants or anti-psychotics that can make your life infinitely worse upon taking them and the person that prescribed it is just like "Oh. Oopsie 🥰 Let's try another one"

Keep in mind, it's perfectly acceptable to mock stoners who say "Nah man, you just gotta try a different strain bro just trust" and write off what they're saying as quackery, but telling therapist bootlickers about the terrible experience you had on a specific medication is 9 times out of 10 met with "Well you should just try a different one :)"

Okay, then what happens? The same healthcare professional that prescribed me the first med is gonna do the exact same process again with another med with almost identical effects because they have it in their head what I'm like and what I need. They want me to keep nodding along to whatever brain fog shit they decide to put me on next because it looks good on their stupid fucking papers while they laugh at their new favourite test rat.

I'm so tired.

[uncanny-tranny]

It really is weird seeing my formerly... uninformed-about-trans-issues dad just go, "so, as you know, gender is a social construct..." and talk about how weird people are about the idea of trans sports. So, you know, people can change

[asadfangirlbitxh]

My biggest issue with Psych is they always give you the frustrated part of Henry and Shawn's dynamic but it never feels resolved. I've only started season 6 rn but it just feels so weird to me that after Henry says he wished Shawn never came back. There is actually no resolution. We are made to believe there is something nice on the card that we aren't privy to but that's the thing. It doesn't resolve their fight. And in the next episodes, Henry is just back at the police department like nothing happens. All their fights and they never get resolved. The next episode it's almost like it never happened and that frustrates me so much.

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

[eeunoia]

SOMEONE’S GOING BACK TO WRITING! YOOHOO. 2025 is not the year that i will be deleting this acc! 🥳

(masterlist is under renovation so please give me some time, thank you.)

[artisticdysfunction]

"oh where do i get the fun friends in your head DID-"

you work on your dissociative symptoms, trauma symptoms, and make friends with your fellow alters instead of hating their ass for being mentally ill when it's a thing for all yall to deal with.

[atypeofherb9922]

Ok, I haven’t seen all of Psych yet, but I’m almost done with the series, and I have a bone to pick with some people…(drumroll please :))

Henry Spencer Bashers

Look, I get it, sometimes he’s not very likable, but his lessons came in handy, and a lot of it was very unconventional, but geez dudes, some of y’all take it awfully serious.

Honestly, in some of the flashbacks, he’s a total dick, but also Shawn is sorta dramatic in some, and being a kid about stuff, and Henry is being a dad about stuff.

But also?

He’s not a horrible person. People be arguing about how Henry is the worst or Madeline, making them out to be either the very best people in the world, or the devil’s spawn.

Guess what?

They’re both flawed.

Both.

Of.

Them.

They both weren’t perfect parents, because nobody is a perfect parent. Madeline and Henry care for Shawn, they always will, no matter what he does.

Henry gets better, starts to get better with Shawn, because better late than never, and honestly? All of the things he taught Shawn were life lessons taught in super weird ways, or things that he felt Shawn needed to know.

I mean, the hat thing, it’s kinda stupid, but like I’ve seen some people acting like the hat thing is torture, and it’s not, don’t lie to yourself.

So anyhow, bashers get this in your head…

Characters are flawed in TV just how they are in real life, so get it in your head that people learn and grow throughout series’ just like people do in real life! TV people aren’t supposed to be perfect, which is why people like watching them.

Sorry for ranting. Thanks for listening to my TEDtalk.

[ppeoplewacher]

I loved Juliet because she wasn't afraid to be a badass and a pathetic loser. She's so cool and is so good at what she does but at the same time she's human. She's goofy and a lil silly she makes tons of mistakes but she pulls through and is amazing at it. And also I was watching the first episode of s6 and she needed to gain Lassiter trust back instead of the other way around and it was great that way. I hate the trope of male characters doing something a female character doesn't like and then having to win back her forgiveness and this was so refreshing. She's so feminine and beautiful and smart and funny and strong and at the same time, not detracting from those qualities, she's flawed and goofy and a little awkward sometimes. She's also just a good, mature person. She's very similar to Gus and it's cool to see parallels and he's isbebjejzwbfjjxbabejvishbrndmakcubsbz