#Get me a psychologist

[flowerfoxboy]

I'm tired of being my own person (I'm literally not), I want to be a side character on my best friend's life, I want to stop existing when he isn't interacting with me and only have consciousness when he texts me or talks with me.

I want to be his co protagonist on his life, I want to exist solely for his story to continue, I don't want to be myself, being me is hard stressing and hopeless, I just want to assist him, help him grow and go with him wherever he goes, I want to be his sidekick, I want to solve his problems and have no problems of mine, I want his pain to be my pain to heal and his tears to be my tears to dry, I don't wish to have existance outside of making his life interesting, I don't think I can bear that much

[doomdaysdecays]

assigned depressive borderline at birth 😍

get a totally legit diagnosis here <3

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 19th January

I’ve been working on so much Vesta stuff this week ahead of the release of season 2, but I still found time to listen to some top notch audio drama! 🥰

🦋 @remnantspod (24) Um, so I’m going to be honest and admit that I listened to about 5 minutes of this episode, realised who it was about and what was about to happen and then got my wife to check the content warnings for me before tactically retreating. I might try again next week or read the transcript when I’m feeling more mentally robust!! 

Take this as your sign to check in with yourself when listening to heavy things!! 💙

🎃 Waiting For October by @monkeymanproductions (3.5) Aw, I feel strangely fond of Auncle Lantern!! I loved all the growing metaphors!! There’s nothing better than thinking you can close a book and leave a story in the pages then realising it’s got its roots in you! 

🧋 @hinaypod (27-30) I felt like Hi Nay really powered me through this week! What a crazy arc that was!! Yet again, I was so upset at having to listen to Mari cry :( pls stop doing this to me!! I loved the twist in Mikey’s tale, revealing his guilt all these years. And, oh my god, Donner name reveal!!!! It’s very suspicious that two Mikey’s have had trouble in the same house. Imagine how different the story might be if an Elder had rescued Donner instead. And, OMG, unless my ears deceive me (which I can’t lie, they often do) YORKSHIRE DOOLEY??? Obsessed. If anything happens to him I will kill everyone in this room etc etc 

🍾 @ameliapodcast (41 + epilogue) I loved hearing these funky Panaraguans finally hash out their differences and come to a mutually beneficial agreement!! This season has had such a fun overarching narrative, but I’m SO excited for the gang to get back together. Imagine hearing Alvina and The Interviewer bickering again. It’ll be music to my ears. 

🌵 @desertskiespodcast (8) Ooh we got some serious Sphere Lore in this episode. I’m particularly side-eyeing the brief glitch that Tendy had after going back into what appeared to be pre-death memory, surely that doesn’t mean anything? Right? Surely… 

I hope everyone has a fantastic week! ✨

[eggsbenedictinurmom]

No throwing him thrusday this time. He's out picking apples today

[blusical]

currently thinking of how abusive some hockey coaches are and how players are supposed to act like that sort of stuff is normal

[agent-troi]

scully is soooo protective of trevor it gives me feelings

[fandomlobster]

That's it. I'm opening up my DSM5 to diagnose that damned shrimp from Dandy's World. I'm never going to get any work done if I don't talk about ODD with someone.

So: Oppositional Defiant Disorder is classified as a mood, impulse-control, and conduct disorder characterized by angry/irritable moods, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. Let's go through each category one by one with some in-game examples.

Category A

A pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months as evidenced by at least four symptoms of the following categories, and exhibited during interaction with at least one individual who is not a sibling:

Angry/Irritable Mood

1. Often loses temper

2. Is often touchy or easily annoyed

3. Is often angry and resentful

Argumentative/Defiant Behavior

4. Often argues with authority figures

5. Often actively defies or refuses to comply with requests from authority figures or with rules

We never see him interact with an authority figure [who even is an authority in their situation? Dandy?]. Even if he was perfectly in line with authority figures, he would be diagnosable so it doesn't really matter. But come on, do we really think this guy complies with authority?

6. Often deliberately annoys others

7. Often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior

Vindictiveness

8. Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past 6 months.

While we don't have a timeline of events, I think it's safe to say this pattern of behavior has lasted at least 6 months with how the other toons expect this kind of behavior from him. The interactions I chose as my "evidence" were pretty arbitrary since all of his interactions involve Shrimpo being angry, argumentative, and vindictive.

All that to say, I think Shrimpo fulfills category A to a tee. At the most conservative reading of his interactions, he hits five symptoms [1,2,3,6 and 8]. In a more imaginative reading, he hits all eight easily. Either way, we only needed 4.

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Category B

The disturbance in behavior is associated with distress in the individual or others in his or her immediate social context (e.g., family, peer group, work colleagues) or it impacts negatively on social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,

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This category is probably the shakiest for my argument. It's hard to say if he or any of the toons around him are necessarily "distressed" by his behavior. Toodles certainly seems distressed by this interaction, but it's also a one-off in which he purposefully scares her, so it's hard to say if she's distressed by his behavior in a broader sense.

I would definitely say that his social functioning is impacted. Social functioning defines an individual's interactions with their environment and the ability to fulfill their role within such environments as work, social activities, and relationships with partners and family. Things get tricky when we ask ourselves about the roles of the toons, and what those roles mean for a living creature. Shrimpo is a bully character in the canon cartoon, and he fulfills that social role very well.

However, he is... bad at everything else, to put it nicely. Shrimpo completely fails at any other role you could possibly assign to him, such as friend or coworker. He fails at occupational functioning as well, being useless at extracting, distracting, or surviving [believe me, I have all mastery quests on Shrimpo, I know lol]

So can we check off category B? That's reader's choice. It depends on if anyone is distressed by his behavior, and if ODD is negatively impacting his ability to function [or if he's naturally that unskilled].

Ultimately, this category is only here to say that no one should be diagnosed with a disorder if there isn't a good reason for it. If no one's bothered by it, then it can just be a character quirk instead of a disorder. But this guy is fictional, so I'm just going to decree that he should be diagnosed for the fun of it.

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Category C

The behavior does not occur exclusively during the course of a psychotic, substance use, depressive, or bipolar disorder. Also the criteria are not met for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.

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We see no evidence that could lead us to assume that Shrimpo has a psychotic, substance use, depressive, or bipolar disorder. We also never see Shrimpo act any differently, nor do any characters mention Shrimpo acting differently, so if Shrimpo does have any of these disorders we can assume these symptoms do not occur exclusively during their course.

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder is slighty more complicated, but not really since Shrimpo is an adult. DMDD is an adolescent condition with similar symptoms of irritability, extreme temper outbursts, and trouble functioning due to irritability, but the diagnostic criteria includes "This diagnosis should not be made for the first time before age 6 years or after age 18 years." Since he is past adolescence, we are free to diagnose him with ODD.

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So what do we do with this information?

Idk. I'm just autistic with an interest in disorders. All I want is to carve out a section in our shared sandbox for ODD Shrimpo since the guy has literally taken over my brain and he is exhibiting Symptoms.

I often diagnose characters just so I have a nice and neat guideline for how they should act in my own portrayals. It's not perfect by any means, but I think it helps keep me consistent lol

[artsywitchling]

People are genuinely just trying to drag each other down, I feel.

Today my coworker asked what I did before I started working at the bakery and I told her I studied illustration, but since it can be difficult to build up a whole life as an illustrator this instant, I chose to take on this job instead for now. Then she asked about my age and I told her I’m 28 years old.

She then looked at me belittling. After I asked about what her deal is, she said at my age, I should have it all together. And I fucking hate her for that.

I am not too old. I am taking longer because of my own reasons that aren’t her business. But how dare telling a person you barely even know, that they’re doing something wrong or that they are taking to long!

How absolutely thoughtless can one person be to judge someone after spending just 5 hours next to each other. She has no right to make her assumptions.

I’m just really really angry about that.

[sobriety-circle]

If you are a "social drinker" and you immediately feel attacked by sober people existing. You actually need help. That's not healthy.

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

I'm new to Sade so sorry if this is a stupid question, but was Sade gay? I'm currently reading Justine and noticed the passionate, semi-romantic descriptions of m/m sex, which contrast with the crude descriptions of f/m sex. I've not read all of Sade's books, but the ones I have read also feature characters who're mostly disinterested in women, who give off self-insert vibes (e.g. Dolmancé). Am I reading too much into it? IDK but I was wondering if you could shed some light.

Happy deathday to Sade!! lol

Really all that can be said with certainty is that he definitely wasn't straight lol. Like anyone who died before modern queer theory, Sade's sexuality can be difficult to label with today's terminology. He was certainly attracted to both men and women, so for simplicity's sake I just say he was bisexual. But really, who knows...

Characters that he uses as self-inserts like Dolmancé in PitB or Bressac in Justine are pretty exclusively attracted to men. Like you said, there's multiple times in his writing where characters will praise m/m sex and show blatant disgust towards sex with women. But if you look at Sade's life, there's only one known* male sex partner and many women. There's also several women Sade was in love with throughout his life, but there exists no letters of him professing love to any man. Could this be because male victims were less likely to go to the police, therefore less known to us? because women were easier to pursue in public? because even he felt the pressure of societal norms? because he kept relations with men better hidden? because any such letters or records were selectively destroyed by a relative? Who knows! It could be some, all, or none of these things. It's really up to the interpretation of the reader. The misogyny, philosophical extremism, and very culturally different ideas about sex add so many different variables to Sade's sexuality.

To add further confusion: gender and sexuality were much more correlated in Sade's writing (and seemingly in the time period in general, I mean look at the bisexual Lord Hervey being referred to as "the third sex"), male characters who get sodimized call it them "becoming women", women who put on strap-ons "become men", even women who get sodimized are masculinized: Saint-Ange says she wants to be a "Ganymede" to Dolmancé. So sodomy seemed inherently gay to Sade, regardless of the sexes involved or what roles they played. Whereas today, that's definitely not the case. Beauvoir follows along with the sexuality-gender correlation and suggests that Sade felt more feminine than masculine and his written contempt for female genitalia was a product of his own gender frustrations. From what I've read, most modern historians tend to avoid labeling Sade with anything other than "sodomite" and "libertine" only using "bisexual" and "homosexual" to label certain actions he performed like "homosexual sex" "bisexual orgy" etc. This is when the word queer is godsent.

Tldr; He's too 18th century libertine for modern labels. Colloquially, I default to calling him bi, but we'll never really know. Maybe he would have preferred gay due to his preferences/philosophies. Who knows. Safest bet is to just call him queer.

*Should go without saying but, there were obviously more. Latour is just the only named one with recorded proof.

[adhderall]

and like my parents or etc. are always like "omg why you do/wear X thats for men" why does it matter.... i just want to.

"omg you know its not socially accepted for a woman youll be seen as a freak" YEAH CLEARLY I FUCKING KNOW THIS ALREADY.

they treat me like im a stupid ass kid who is completely socially unaware like i dont understand the implications of my own actions and the way i present myself. i KNOW im a weird freak, man. I am a grown ass adult, i think i can make decisions for myself about how to dress and present myself.

[clove-pinks]

girl help, I had a fashion history shitpost escape containment on the Beau Brummell Forbade Men From Wearing Colours website

[ithacanradio]

the most gorgeous man I've ever known sent me a drunk voice message hurt that i left my job at the bar he goes to without telling him and adding that he saw me on tv speaking about palestine, which turned into me telling my ex boss to give him my number, and the sober voice message was much worse because this sweet guy just tells me that he's so proud of me and then i can feel him like talking with a constricted throat saying he understands that i left and closes with "from the river to the sea" and doesn't it just suck that some things have no hope of ever beginning and yet still end somehow

[getwonderhoyd]

i am plagued by Him

[moldypoff]

I went on a JaidenAnimations rabbit hole and

I WANT THAT MAGICAL BLUE PILL SO BAD.

You turn into a GOD???? YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE BREAKS FROM DOING WORK THAT EVERYONE ELSE CAN DO EASILY??? I CAN FOCUS??? I CAN R E M E M B E R ?

Y’all

My mental illness isn’t a hindrance

It’s a GATE, it’s a means of holding this beast BACK.

I will have you, aderall, mark my words…

[syrenki]

this will sound so fucking emo but i really don't see the point in living if i don't even want to be awake. it's not even that i want to die, i loathe all the pain that comes with dying, i even struggle with the pain of cutting my skin, i just don't want to wake up, you know? i'm so very tired all the time, there just doesn't seem to be anything i enjoy about functioning, it's too much work, i'd rather sleep