#Mental iLLness

[yippee-kay-yo]

woah. As somebody who has struggled with OCD since I was like 6 this hits hard. I used to be an extreme germaphobic and would constantly wash my hands all the time. And the whole thing about God basically coming to kill me and stuff if I did something “wrong” is especially relatable for what I’ve recently dealt with (I am religious and struggle with scrupulosity, a form of OCD concerning morality and religion) but I have gotten a whole lot better at managing it as of late! Hope more people see this and learn something new!

Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

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Something that has really bugged me about season two is Jinx's hallucinations and PTSD. It magically disappears when Silco dies, save for two scenes. I remember when people on reddit were literally making jokes about the writers going this route because it would be so stupid.

One of the things I loved about season one was the realistic depictions of mental illness that you just don't see often in media. I don't know what it is like to experience schizophrenia, but I have experienced PTSD and paranoia, and seeing how it was represented in Arcane was actually one of the things that helped me through it.

And then season 2 comes around and they just completely neglect this side of Jinx.

PTSD isn't a switch that can magically be flipped off. Recovery is a slow and gradual process. In absolutely no world would Jinx killing yet another family member cure her of her conditions, it would make them 10 times worse. Not to mention just before killing him she has an extremely severe psychotic episode, which would only make forgetting her trauma even more difficult since it was just brought up fresh in her mind.

And what even about the end of s1 was it that healed her? I genuinely have no idea, because she finally chooses Jinx only to once again go back and forth between Jinx and Powder in season two, because apparently all that buildup for her final decision was for nothing.

She does experience two hallucinations (I'm not going to count the jail silco thing in act three because what even was that?) when she sees enforcer Vi and when Sevika talks about the attack at Vander's statue, but suddenly that is all that triggers her?

In season one, just seeing Vi, or even someone who looks like Vi triggers her. But now when Vi is literally trying to capture and possibly kill her she is fine, it's only the mask that bothers her? Wasn't that her worst fear, that Silco and Sevika were right, that Vi only wanted to stop her? And she is constantly triggered by Cait in season 1 but not 2?

And then there was the insulting ending, where jail Silco tells Jinx to 'break the cycle' (something he would absolutely never do) and Jinx finally finds redemption by literally killing herself after Isha kills herself in what is framed as an act of heroism (and if Jinx actually didnt, than what even was the point of that scene?) What happened to Ekko trying to stop Jinx from doing that? What happened to Silco having Singed revive her to save her life after she attempts to take it? Or Jayce and Viktor talking each other out of it? Or Silco choosing to keep fighting rather than give into the "peace in water"?

On purpose or not season 2 frames suicide as a glorious, edgy, perhaps even necessary thing and it's disgusting.

[mikosocute]

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #11595

   Soft sweaters in the winter.  – Guest Submission

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[crankydevon]

Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby failing to ensure that the sample obtained is representative of the population intended to be analyzed. (wikipedia)

something that should be taken with a grain of salt are the statistics talking about the high rates of mental illness + neurodivergence among trans people (ocd, bpd, adhd, autism, etc)

I see both sides of the political spectrum taking these studies at face value - conservatives say we're broken, and trans people try to come up with reasons why for example autism + gender dysphoria makes sense and why one of them feeds into another

at the end of the day you have to remember that we're the one category of people on this planet who are legally required to go see a psychiatrist in order to receive non-psychiatric medication and surgeries.

more trans people are in therapy by law than any other demographic of people, and as a result, this captures more comorbidities.

if I had to look at my own family & rates of mental illness?

mom, dad, 2 maternal aunts, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, sister, sibling, and me all have OCD.

7/9 of them are cishet, never been to therapy, never diagnosed. 2/9 are trans, required therapy for hormone treatment, and were diagnosed.

you don't have to do any math to just see that the resulting statistics end up intensely skewed.

and we can think back to how autism was virtually never diagnosed more than 50 years ago - ruling out any grandparents being included in statistics - and even my parents' generation (they're in their 60s now) wouldn't have been included either.

I don't think it's to anyone's benefit to accept these studies uncritically. a lot of these things are hereditary and far more prevalent in the overall population than people realize

[ufoscomeandgetmeplease]

”I feel like such a temporary person in everyone's life“

[kaccvcate]

"grossed out" =/= "triggered"

Some people seem to believe that feeling a deep sense of grossness or fear is the same thing as being "triggered." If this was the case, my gay ass would trigger every white christian in my entire town (I wish)

Here are some some examples of what being triggered is actually like:

- My friend's new boyfriend said she should lose some weight. This triggered her eating disorder, and after not eating for a period of time she was hospitalized.

- My friend's girlfriend told him to kill himself, so this triggered his depression, and he was hospitalized after an attempted overdose.

- My friend got yelled at by someone we know, and this triggered her to have a panic attack. She was crying hysterically for hours.

- My friend died last month and it triggered my psychosis, I was out of my body throwing things around my room. I woke up after three days with no memory.

This is NOT being triggered:

- I heard a joke or story about sex and it made me feel all gross and shameful inside. I wish I hadn't read it.

This is NOT being triggered because your reaction is not severe, and doesn't require intervention by a friend or doctor. You are being a whiny little bitch and you are making it harder for people who have real problems.

Thanks for reading my PSA

[chaos-creature-on-the-roof]

^tru

also ive been semi-diagnosed b/c i talk about things i experience thinking its just something funky my brain does and then find out its probably a disorder

it's so funny to me when i see pearl-clutching articles about how "teenagers are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders via tiktok" because like. this is not happening in a vacuum. teenagers are severely and i mean severely medically neglected. i cannot stress this enough. teenagers do not have free access to medical care. those same news outlets would be clowning on women with housewife psychosis in the 1950's.

i sometimes go pale when listening to some of what my friends have gone through in their childhoods and teenagehoods. they talk about it so nonchalantly, things that would be considered straight up torture if done to an adult, can't fathom the effect this has on children. they are on multiple anti-psychotics and several antidepressants and anxiety meds now that they are adults. medical neglect has legally and effectively disabled them. a timely diagnosis and intervention could have saved them. of course teenagers are self-diagnosing using tiktok. if your knee-jerk reaction is to scoff at the idea and dismiss it as dumb teenager shit instead of being radicalized because the best shot young people have at attaining the mental health support they need is a fucking dancing videos app, you're categorically a political enemy of the youth.

[allthatispeculiar]

[phantomsboyfriend]

Lately, I could give my entire being and still never have anyone actually love me like I love them.

pls don’t flirt with me i want to be nonchalant so bad but i unfortunately crave connection so intensely that i will give you my entire soul and forgive you over and over until i’ve lost myself completely and feel like i’m drowning

[literallyd34d]

fucking his dead body #womeninmalefeilds

[dosesofcommonsense]

You cannot successfully debate a person who believes that gender stops existing when your mind tells you otherwise. Men are men. Women are women. If you want to be the other gender, you’re not standing in the gap. You’ve got a mental health issue called gender dysphoria and need some counseling.

I’m all for helping the mentally ill. I’m not for affirming that illness. Im definitely against this trans narrative that says everyone must change for the mentally ill. That’s foolish and demonic, and everyone who supports it is losing an internal spiritual war. It’s a huge societal problem because we’re in a huge spiritual war, and it hasn’t been this blatant in decades - which tells me God is doing something big, otherwise the demons would still be going status quo and operating in darkness and not the light of day.

[sadboys2k01]

it‘s always been best when I kept my mouth shut

it‘s always been best when I kept my mouth shut

it‘s always been best when I kept my mouth shut

it‘s always been best when I kept my mouth shut

[noahsfault]

I have social anxiety & generally assume that it’s obvious to the people around me

But I was talking to a new friend about self-image and I mentioned this to him and he said “I had no idea about that, I thought you were really confident” and like… of all the things I thought nobody would ever say to me that probably ranked #1

But once he’d said it I started remembering that he had said it every time I felt like that—

And like I’m not cured of my social anxiety but I feel and act more confident now because I don’t feel like people see me and assume I’m not confident

Depression is such an effective tranquilizer that it creates a great opportunity for plot twists in your real life. I have a pretty consistent opinion of myself which is "low" and "never ending guilt and shame for reasons I don't understand."

Recently received feedback from two different editing clients that started with "Please pass along to Jacquelynn that she is phenomenal at her job" and "I was blown away by the evaluation I received."

You always hear about how depression (and anxiety) lies to you and distorts reality, but there is logically knowing that and then there is like, physical proof of it and you are suddenly Neo in the Matrix jumping out of the fucked up little tube machine.

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #11599

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