#and stigmatised

[autopsyfreak]

Homicidal Ideation

homicidal ideation is the term for having active thoughts about murdering others. these thoughts can be intrusive, however they can also often be voluntary.

misconceptions:

‘people who have these thoughts either have killed someone or will kill someone in the future’ - this is false. most people who have these thoughts usually have disordered behaviours (most commonly as a result of personality disorders) and struggle to find healthy ways to cope with their emotions, therefore provocation and stress can easily cause thoughts of inflicting harm onto others. this doesn’t inherently mean these people are dangerous, nor does it mean that they’re going to act upon these thoughts. most people who experience homicidal ideation never act on it and use it more as a way to process their distress/frustration internally.

‘having these thoughts about people in your life means you can’t possibly care for them’ - also false. caring for someone doesn’t make them an exception to mental illness and it doesn’t stop your mental illnesses from existing. to think that someone’s love for you is only valid as long as they’re not displaying traits of mental illness is unfair and is hugely misinformed. to love and be loved by someone who is mentally ill is to accept that they will display symptoms of their mental illness. you are not the exception and they do not love you any less by showing traits of being unwell.

‘so you endorse murder’ - no. that’s not at all what this means and if you seriously think this then your grasp of severe mental health issues is too limited to be commenting on such topics.

‘you’re evil’ - for being unwell? don’t be a cunt. if you seriously think that having a disordered manner of processing emotions internally makes someone ‘evil’ then that sounds more like an issue with you being too sensitive and having a lack of understanding, not an issue with the mentally ill person experiencing these thoughts. don’t make your inability to understand mental illness into someone else’s problem.

as someone who does experience homicidal ideation, it’s also important to not make the mistake of assuming everyone who is mentally ill experiences these thoughts either. i had an anonymous ask earlier today that directly associated the fact i’m mentally unwell with murder and homicidal thoughts, to immediately make this assumption just because someone is mentally ill is disgusting.

[bugpalace]

hello nonhuman ally / young uneducated nonhuman. you have a bomb strapped to your chest. to diffuse it, you must explain why alterhumans are valid without saying any of these phrases

- they still know they're human / it's not like they believe they're physically nonhuman

- well they're not delusional / mentally ill

- it's just a phase, don't bother them / let kids be kids / they're just exploring their identity

- well they're just [insert something that only describes otherpaws / furries]

you have 1 hour.

[koredzas]

Francesco Morone (1471 - 1529)- Stigmatisation of Saint Francis.

[little-cirrus-fibratus]

A genuine question for people with ASPD or/and NPD

People with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) or/and NPD (narcissistic personality disorder), I am genuinely curious about what you believe is the core part of aspd and npd, and how you see the world. How does it feel to have these disorders? How do people treat you? How do you treat people? How can one understand how it must be like for you?

These disorders are VERY stigmatised. Even actual medical journals and sites perpetuate this stigmatisation, and there's this whole thing of "narcissistic abuse" or that all people with antisocial personality disorder are serial killers. I simply refuse to believe this, it's not nuanced enough, and I genuinely seek to understand. And maybe other people may find this thread of posts and also understand.

So people with npd/aspd, add on, explain anything you wish people knew about your disorder.

Coming from a fellow person with a highly stigmatised disorder (schizophrenia) who wishes to understand.

[regicidal-defenestration]

Big news from the criminology trenches. Did you know that if you treat someone like a human being rather than Someone Who Will, We Know, For Sure And Undoubtedly, Commit A Crime, So We Must Lock Them Away Before Their Foul Words Can Infect Our Pure Minds, then conversations about cybercrime are more successful? [1]

[1] R. Brewer, M. de Vel-Palumbo, A. Hutchings, T. Holt, A. Goldsmith, and D. Maimon, "Targeted Warnings and Police Cautions" in Cybercrime Prevention: Theory and Applications. Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019, 77-99

[hostilemuppet]

started watching ppg16 bc what else can i do to feel emotions on this miserable planet.

if i had a nickel for every time amanda leighton starred in a cartoon where a character was given Comedic Haha Sitcom Contamination + Order OCD because the writers thought it made them an acceptable target of ridicule and a bad person for being unreasonable, id have two nickels. you might be the problem, girl

[dorianbrightmusic]

i'm seeing a lot of Pokémon SV DLC analyses where people say 'Oh, Kieran's fixation on Ogrepon is because he sees it as a path to strength; Carmine's bullied him long enough that his shield against admitting his weakness to himself is adoring a legendary creature'. And don't get me wrong – these interpretations certainly hold water – but I've actually been working from basically the opposite angle for all this time.

By all means, Kieran idolises strength, but he inhabits Carmine's shadow – he's the weak sibling, and probably has been for a long time. Yet, rather than fixate on the fantastical power of the Loyal Three, he identifies himself with Ogrepon – the downtrodden, ostracised creature cast out to eke out a subsistence. A terrible demon that wasn't quite terrible enough to cause anyone any lasting harm. The creature defeated by heroes, rather than the perfect, heroic figureheads themselves. He's enamoured with the downtrodden; he sees himself in its grief, in its being cast out and excluded. He's been cast out and excluded all his life (and he can't be a bad person, right? It's not fair – he's hated senselessly, surely, rather than for some reason?) – he sees himself as harmless; so the ogre, too, must be harmless, mis-blamed. Strength is thus in resistance; in growing a shell to tolerate others' inexplicable cruelty. So Kieran looks to Ogerpon, and he thinks that the meek shall inherit the earth, and it gives him the strength to tolerate long nights with poor company. Others are villains – not him, not this creature – and he's safe in the knowledge that at the end of the day, at least an ogre can go down in mythology as the putative sole survivor of its trials.

In this sense, Kieran's like Penny – he finds himself in a position of weakness, of being victimised, and forms himself an armour of being an underdog, of being the thing that bites back. Yet while Penny's position is that the underdog might muster the strength to bite back and restore justice, Kieran's view is that at least the underdog was worth loving. He's inert and preoccupied with his inertia. He can't understand that maybe he could be a human, with the capacity to grow, the capacity to sin. And when Carmine is cruel to him, he reaffirms his own contrarian mindset more – she says I am worth little for my weakness, so my weakness is all I am worth; my weakness is my strength.

And yet he chases strength, because he has to to survive. So when the player comes by, and supports him, maybe he has the safety to walk away from his preoccupation with being an underdog, to enjoy strength for strength's sake. And then, he starts losing, but this time, there are stakes, since he can't just withdraw and be consoled by the fact that withdrawing is right, is right, is right. Thus, he must get stronger. And then, when Ogerpon turns out to favour Juliana, who's become Kieran's idol for all that strength means, rather than Kieran, who's Kieran's selfsame designated weaklingpatheticscumidiot——well, what can Kieran do but fracture, since his whole ideology, his whole premonition that he might have the right to inherit the earth, has been fractured? And, under stress, he pivots from one extreme to the other. All he knows is that weakness is now unbearable. He must get stronger. Must get stronger. Must get stronger—because otherwise he's doomed, he's nothing. He has no myth to dissolve his identity in any longer, so he reshapes himself around the only other standard he's ever known. And it twists him and it breaks him into tiny pieces, because suddenly, the last thing he can bear to be is Kieran: Kieran, the downtrodden and meek boy. He has to flip on his axis; he must become the designated villain of his story by popular imagination, or else be subsumed in the fact that he's going to die someday without any place in the world. He has to play a part, because he's been consigned to one so long, and he can't think of anything other than heroes and villains, enemies and martyrs. He can't be the bad guy. Strength is now goodness; weakness is now evil. And he can't reconcile who he thought he was with who he must become, and as a result, all he can do is try to destroy the person who's destroyed his ideology.

[skitskatstudios]

I love how the students of PK Academy (after the volcano) are like “Oh no, it’s former delinquent Kuboyasu. Better stay away from him.” But at this point, he’s gone through so much character growth that he’s literally just a guy that gets anger management therapy.

[misiahasahardname]

waiter! waiter! more objects with personality disorders please!

[little-cirrus-fibratus]

The stigmatisation of schizophrenia and how doctors only know how to treat the psychosis part of schizophrenia and nothing else.

Tw: discussion of delusions and psychosis, although no descriptions

Is it just me or is schizophrenia the ultimate fuck finger to society disease? Exactly because of the positive symptoms, the psychosis. There was another tumblr user who once talked about what a delusion is, and a very important part of it was 'a belief that does not correspond to any known subcultures or religions'. (If anyone remembers the tumblr user tag them). And if one might notice, the psychosis is what's disruptive or hard to deal with for doctors and nurses and allies, it's what doesn't make sense and is greatly "annoying or disturbing" or... socially unacceptable. Often when people imagine a crazy person they think of someone with schizophrenia, someone who sees and hears things that aren't there, someone who talks to themselves or their hallucinations, someone who experiences disorganised speech. I am simply so tired of doctors only treating psychosis because that is what's disruptive to society. (It can also be disruptive to the individual experiencing it, and it's valid if psychosis is what you consider your worst symptom, it is different for everyone). There has been done little to nothing to treat the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia which can very often look like ADHD. ADHD and autism awareness can also show that bringing awareness to a condition can actually push researchers to study the condition and better the lives of the people affected by it. ADHD is a very talked about condition (which doesn't mean that ADHDers don't experience challenges and discrimination based on their neruotype) in Denmark it's the most common neurodivergence. And there is a lot of awareness about it which makes researchers want to research it and create better treatments. That just hasn't really happened to schizophrenia and schizo spectrum conditions yet.

Wow I really hope that made sense, please tell if I said something wrong or offensive I will correct it.

Written in a fit of rage over the stigmatisation of schizophrenia.

[dont-offend-the-bees]

I truly hate to say it but socks with sandals is an unparalleled warm-ish weather comfort experience. I'm sorry, I can't pretend anymore. I'm leaving the stylish gay community and joining the dad community, I don't even care.

[aelirus]

folds my hands together. peoples understanding, even from those who research it, of sociopathy and "psychopathy" and antisocial personality disorder is so narrow. of the whole cluster B group in general.

anyway. cluster b comorbidity king here.

everything about him is contradiction after contradiction, what a mess! why wouldn't he want to destroy the world?

i write a lot more about bpd since its what i have more experience with. but i do love sociopath cyrus. not even in a "throw sociopathy on all the villains and thats that" way. i typically try not to label just any villain with stigmatised conditions... like ghetsis, all you need to know about him is he's irredeemable and if i put a label on it then it'd be too easy to assume "oh this is why he's irredeemable"

but in the case of cyrus.... i dunno, torch me if you want but i think there is a world where he can be redeemed. He doesn't hurt people because he cares about hurting them, in fact he tries to avoid directly hurting anyone, he does it cus he doesn't care about them and is focused entirely on himself.

take the meme about the "making my crobat hate me after i evolve it" for example. people say its cyrus, and sure it could be, but i think he would not bother to gaf whether his crobat liked him or not. its illogical.

in a world where he was looking to be redeemed, he'd simply be learning what logic works best in the world he's currently in, rather than the logic for a perfect world. it'd still be hard for him, and he could be prone to slipping into his old ways of thinking (especially with his borderline) but its not off the table.

[bievre]

i remember when i was on tumblr as a teenager i actually was quite strict about no pro ana followers because i thought i could cure my own anorexia by not looking at beauty standards etc etc and people would get weirdly mad at me for enforcing that boundary and now idgaf and people get weirdly mad at me for having blogs they dont like in my own notes lol. but i suppose at the time i was self ided as Recovering and now i post about doing Not That so the operating presumptions about me & my stakes & vectorhood are just extremely different

[sewi-li-suwi]

was talking to an older northern woman today and she said look as /luːk/ (long oo) before correcting herself to /lʊk/ (to rhyme with book) and going "oh haha that's very northern" and. :(. she was speaking with a relatively northern accent anyways and i'm just wondering how much she was watering it down due to being in her job and talking to me (a southerner)

idk. there's not a moral here, it just sucks to me that ppl (have to) change their accents so deliberately like that for professionalism, jobs, talking to others, etc. having to hide your roots for social acceptance.

and i would've loved to hear her accent at its strongest.

[autopsyfreak]

i can’t remember if i’ve mentioned this before but i have a way of viewing others that a lot of people don’t tend to like.

i view everyone as an object. people that i care more about tend to be seen as my possessions.

it’s something i need to speak more about if i get a new psychiatrist but i do view people either as almost like pets or as just side characters. i don’t really know how else to describe it, i don’t want to use the cliché ‘people are pawns if they don’t matter much to me’ allegory but i genuinely do not know how to put it into words.

the exceptions to this is my fp and anyone i am romantically involved with, who i view quite highly, or at least as highly as i can view others.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

I’m so fucking glad we're getting Maria Robotnik content again she’s so underrated. Like she only shows up really briefly in Adventure 2 and Shadow so I get it but genuinely there’s way more to her than you’d think just from those games. Like she’s a little girl with a severe terminal illness (she’s basically got AIDS in all but name) and she's still so strong and determined. She’s kind and loving, sure, but I think the most important part of her that we see that some people apparently didn’t pick up looking at Some Stuff is that she very deliberately sacrificed herself for Shadow. Like this was a twelve year old girl terrified and confused but she was brave enough to go and save her brother without hesitation even though she knew she'd die if she did so. Like even if she wasn’t going to get shot she was again terminally ill and likely only alive at that point bc she was receiving cutting edge treatment like keep in mind her story takes place 50 years ago she had no treatment options on earth in, to be generous, the 70s and most likely the 50s. She knew she was dead the second the Ark shut down and so she sacrificed herself for her brother and even in her dying breath asked for kindness to a world that gave her none. She’s the epitome of doomed by the narrative and I love her.