#Let's chill with this trend of grouping all normal human behavior into diagnostic criteria. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mactiir · 18 days ago

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I am tired of being in the DSM-V, please put me in another book. am i irritable, hyperactive and and forgetful because i have adhd or because i am a werewolf on my lunar week. is it the depression or my ancestral curse coming to bear. Is it anxiety or am I haunted by the ghosts of the city around me. let's keep some whimsy in the world plz and not make literally everything about how we're incorrect in some way.

#take mental health seriously and all that. Destigmatize it &c #But i am exhausted with this culture of pathologizing EVERYTHING.#I had a student writer make a series of character profiles and a must-have category was “disorders”#Like christ. Our personalities are not our diagnoses.#Let's chill with this trend of grouping all normal human behavior into diagnostic criteria.#I am glad you see yourself in the experiences of the mentally ill! Relating to your fellow humans is good!#But maybe take it as an opportunity to empathize FIRST rather than instantly taking the opportunity to slap another label on yourself #You don't have to be autistic/psychotic/etc to relate to and love autistic/psychotic/etc ppl #Because they're PEOPLE of COURSE you're going to relate to and understand their experiences to some extent!#You don't need to “have” a disorder to benefit from their treatment/coping strategies/etc #It's not effing chemotherapy.#What's good for the goose is good for the gander #Earplugs help people with autistic/adhd/etc sensory overload and also you??#You don't have to give yourself a diagnosis to use earplugs.#Promise.#Mental health #mental illness

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