#autism and addiction

[theramblingsofajunkie]

Having autism and being a heroin addict is one hell of a ride

[ed-recoverry]

Some free mental health/illness books to look at!

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The Myth Of Normal

Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder

Dying to please : anorexia, treatment and recovery

Self harm : the path to recovery

Dealing with depression : understanding and overcoming the symptoms of depression

The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook : a guide to healing, recovery, and growth

Borderline personality disorder demystified : an essential guide for understanding and living with BPD

Am I still visible? : a woman's triumph over anorexia nervosa

Back to life, back to normality : cognitive therapy, recovery, and psychosis

Panic attacks workbook : a guided program for beating the panic trick

The autistic brain : thinking across the spectrum

The addiction recovery skills workbook : changing addictive behaviors using CBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing techniques

The bipolar workbook : tools for controlling your mood swings

The anxiety & phobia workbook

Reclaiming yourself from binge eating : a step-by-step guide to healing

Your guide to schizophrenia

Overcoming social anxiety and shyness : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques

DBT Skills Training Manual: Handouts And Worksheets

Bipolar 101 : a practical guide to identifying triggers, managing medications, coping with symptoms, and more

49 tips and insights for understanding addiction

Understanding paranoia : what causes it, how it feels and what to do about it

The beginner's guide to eating disorders recovery

Paths to recovery : Alcoholic Anon's steps, traditions, and concepts

Psychosis : understanding and treatment

Skinny boy : a young man's battle and triumph over anorexia

The borderline personality disorder survival guide : everything you need to know about living with BPD

Recovery of your inner child

Living well on the spectrum : how to use your strengths to meet the challenges

Everyday mindfulness for OCD : tips, tricks & skills for living joyfully

Living with bipolar disorder : a guide for individuals and families

Coping with schizophrenia

Loosening the grip : a handbook of alcohol information

Don't feed the monkey mind : how to stop the cycle of anxiety, fear & worry

Coping with BPD : DBT and CBT skills to soothe the symptoms of borderline personality disorder

Understanding body dysmorphic disorder : an essential guide

How to deal with OCD

Dying of embarrassment : help for social anxiety & phobia

The Body Image Workbook For Girl Teens

Overcoming depression

Trichotillomania, skin picking, and other body-focused repetitive behaviors

Depression : what is it? : what to do?

Voices in Psychosis - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The brain over binge recovery guide : a simple and personalized plan for ending bulimia and binge eating disorder

The ADHD advantage : what you thought was a diagnosis may be your greatest strength

How to survive your bipolar brain (and stay functional)

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook An Integrative Program To Understand And Manage Your BPD

Autistic Community And The Neurodiversity Movement

Taking charge of adult ADHD

Obsessive-compulsive disorders : a complete guide to getting well and staying well

Explaining depression

Bipolar disorder : a guide for patients and families

The cognitive behavioral workbook for depression : a step-by-step program

Overcoming worry and generalised anxiety disorder : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques

Insight into self harm

Get me out of here : my recovery from borderline personality disorder

Returning to happiness-- : Overcoming depression with your body, mind, and spirit

Food : the good girl's drug : how to stop using food to control your feelings

The autistic spectrum : characteristics, causes, and practical issues

Coping with an abusive relationship

Overcome depression

An introduction to coping with eating disorders

Feeling good : the new mood therapy

Driven To Distraction, Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood

[averageludwig]

Demosolly as fucking ... Bubbline ... From that one universe.... This came to me in a dream and i woke up frantically to draw it. . at . er 2 am on a school day. . cough. I Might have a problem 😁 i cant explain my thought process here if you get it .... You get it. ..

[urpersonalpublicgalaxy]

trying something out

[madrevolting]

the most useless child in the world

[velveteen-vampire]

hi. another tuggoff batch. help me. help me.

[renmorris]

Trant is interesting in his own rights but fandom gets him wrong IMO. He is not your relatable autistic, he is not infodumping. He’s a literal poverty tourist. He’s taking his son to the site of a massacre in the poorest district in the city like he’s on holiday. He’s one of the moralist quest givers along with the Sunday Friend. Be serious.

[sc3rcasm]

How did I do today?

Were you proud of me? Did I do okay? How did you think I acted today? Was I talkative enough?did I make you happy? Did I make you uncontrollably laugh, like I usually do?

Or

Was I a failure like usual? Did I upset you? Did I act differently today? Did I go non-verbal like the little fucking dumb@ss I am? Did I make you depressed? Did I make you concerned, like I usually do?

do you hate me?

hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me hate me?

do you want me to shut the fvck up? I'll gladly do that for you. I'll do anything for you. I'm afraid I don't have my own personality anymore, can I borrow some of yours? Make myself seem more interesting and likeable for once in my life? Just so I can fit in and do what others do??

I feel myself falling.

[borderlinejessie]

Vent post

If you see this, feel free to vent in the comments. I'm happy to listen and I'll reply to everyone. Don't bottle it all up.

If you feel nobody cares, I do!

[sofiabix]

Are you even able to have relationships of any kind if you have the autism/bpd combo❤️‍🩹

[geomimetry]

[zebulontheplanet]

I think people don’t realize the fear and anxiety some people face when taking some medications.

I’m on a benzo. Ativan to be specific. I take it twice a day, every other day, and I sometimes take breaks on weekends from it. I think people don’t realize the utter anxiety I had when I first got on it. Especially the anxiety from the only other person who knows I’m on it, my mother. We were scared. Benzos are a commonly demonized medication. If you’re on it, then you’re automatically seen as a drug addict. If you’re taking it responsibly, no you’re not. If you’re taking it unresponsively and get addicted to it, then you’re a horrible person.

I was scared to get on it. I expressed my concern with my psych, and she was glad I brought it up, and soothed my concern by telling me I could get off of it anytime if I felt uncomfortable.

Medications like benzo’s are extremely demonized. They’re extremely anxiety inducing to be on. To take responsibly. To not get addicted. I have so far been ok, and don’t seem to have a dependence on it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t sometimes doubt myself. Every time I take it because I need it, there’s a little voice in the back of my head telling me I’m an addict. Telling me that I’m only taking it for my own gain and don’t actually need it. There’s this voice telling me all of this, and that’s scary.

Being an addict isn’t a moral failure. But it isn’t bad to not want a struggle on yourself. To not wish years of struggle and harm on yourself. It isn’t bad to not wish you weren’t an addict. To wish that never happens to you.

I am taking my meds responsibly, but that doesn’t mean that I possibly won’t face hardships in the future. That I won’t face possible addiction. That I won’t face doctors not taking me seriously due to it. That I won’t face hardships. There is no guarantee.

We need to stop demonizing medication that has changed peoples lives. That has possibly saved them. Ativan has changed my life for the better. I’m no longer catatonic all the time, I’m no longer struggling with tasks, and I’m no longer having extreme anxiety attacks. Ativan has changed my life, and although it is a hugely demonized medication, I don’t regret it one bit.

[officeobject]

A vent to Bing Ai, about an ace blog, addiction, and people being rude - just fyi, this week, I came back to my addiction

I sometimes can't even see if someone is being rude anymore, because they'd act like they weren't rude, and I'd think to myself I probably deserved it or something, so I need to consult someone else and/or Bing Ai, and then I'd get a response like "yeah, this person was being basically demonic" and then turns out I'm right, but man I can never win with these people - I don't even know what they want from me - for me to peel my skin off because I didn't realize I was talking over a POC person on a post about it (which I didn't see as talking over, but rather, adding on) and saying I didn't see the problem? For me to surgically alter my brain? I've had a popular ace blog seemingly be rude to me, being all like "respect aces that have sex!" when I just reblogged a post about aces that DON'T, FROM THAT PERSON, with a short story about the experience of mine (and I don't have sex), with a guy who ALSO doesn't have sex, who I made hypothetical living situations with where we would ban sexual things IN OUR OWN HYPOTHETICAL HOUSE - it STILL hasn't stopped! People are still mean to me! People still leave or misinterpret ANYTHING, no matter HOW many times I explain or warn about myself! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO RELAPSE IN MY ADDICTION, FOR THEM TO BE OKAY WITH ME?! I ALMOST SAID SOMETHING INAPROPRIATE TO SOMEONE THIS MORNING, ALMOST THINKING IT WAS OKAY, JUST BECAUSE I WAS STILL UNDER THE EFFECTS OF BOTH THE MORNING AND MY ADDICTION! IT'S ALTERING MY SPEECH! MY MEMORY IS WORSE! THE URGES ARE WORSE! My personality is better at least ...

[sillystringsimpsons]

interactions hugely appreciated <33333

My self insert character/simpsona, sam adama

now... what if I used him to make selfships, except instead of wholesome loving relationships he engages in a spree of one night stands and abusive affairs. ..

just kidding! I obviously won't do that because I am a Normal Well Adjusted artist who isn't drawn to pain and suffering because of personal trauma :33

[quixoticanarchy]

against the pathologization of everything. none of my thoughts or behaviors has a medically recognized cause. none of my problems are symptoms. no belief that i evince online is proof of any disease. everything just happens, if it happens for a reason that's between me myself & i. become undiagnosable