#dsm-5 who?

[8thmuse]

every time i drink coffee i just get more eepy and sometimes i have the best sleep after drinking a cup.

pls tell me this is not an autism/neurodivergent thing

[barzfrommarz]

we don't talk about c!wilburs unintentional npd coding. Ive been doing some light research on npd and im surprised its not a more popular headcanon in the fandom

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

i can't believe i come back momentarily from the dead and it's with more cancerous memes. Two versions bc god had other plans, none which included not having both of these.

[hungersauce]

the amount of work transmeds n sysmeds n terfs will put in to ensure theyre miserable and alone forever is crazy. i guess when the agony is optional perhaps it has more appeal i've definitely contemplated breaking bones just so the pain was different like I understand misery incredibly well just like. man. you could like change and you would probably feel a whole lot better and have more friends and feel more stable????

[faitsansorganes]

get their ass ‼

[the-roadtrip-system]

i couldnt remember what dsm-5 was short for and my honkai star rail brain rot autofilled it to the fucking Disciples of Sanctus Medicus

i will never be able to take psychiatry seriously anymore

[still-got-no-idea]

ooh wait whats human services /genq [[google didnt explain it properly :'] ]]

human services isn't entirely one specific thing. a lot of it is actually just working with people, and the most common job that people get when they go for a human services degree is some form of therapist

of course, there are other ways in which people use this degree. some become case workers or they work more in a court system

the way i describe it is that it, more or less, takes a psychological standpoint and applies it in ways that are meant to better help people. it's like the practice of it, instead of just the study of it (if that makes sense)

it's also why there tends to be a lot of overlap when it comes to what degree people have when they work in the human services field. it's also why most of my classes are also filled with psych majors too

[waspsinyouryard]

Now I'm wondering if I have autism + depression or if it's schizoid personality disorder

[goldlightsaber]

depression is weird cause like. ill be clearly depressed and have a diagnosis of low-grade depression but ill still be like “yeah but not really though? that’s fake. if i just got back to working out more, i obviously wouldn’t have it. if i had like two close friends nearby, id be cured, so i just need to make more friends, which i can’t seem to make, so the spiral continues, and that’s my fault.” it’s like, am i depressed if i feel excited about something? do i still have it if i finished a book and enjoyed it? that doesn’t seem possible. it’s just a set of symptoms, not something tangible like a tumor. so maybe im making up. yeah i struggle to do chores but maybe i just don’t have as much will power as everyone else. i still get out of bed and do the required things so maybe i just need to find that one thing that will cure me but im not capable enough to figure out what that things is. and so on

[earmo-imni]

Once again I’m recognizing myself in posts about autism despite not being diagnosed with autism.

Am I going to do anything about it this time? Probably not.

[nymph1e]

I want to put crosshair in a jar and SHAKE HIM. Some observations:

Crosshair knows that the empire is evil and doesn't give a shit about him, but he is fucking CLINGING to it like a staffordshire terrier's teeth into some poor fuck's leg. The COGNITIVE DISSONANCE this bitch is going through is just fantastic to see. He's clearly got lower empathy *cough* autistic *cough* so the evil he's asked to do isn't TOO much of a problem, especially since it can be easily framed as usual soldier work "Good soldier's follow orders" and all.

The way Crosshair just fucking bull-headedly continues with the empire, despite things being miserable there for him. His sheer dumb stubbornness that comes from a) his abandonment issues and b) his desire for self preservation.

So like, Crosshair's conflict isn't going to be with the evils of the empire which is so interesting! I think he's going to realize that he CANNOT make himself invaluable to the empire. That he cannot force this system to care for him.

My biggest hope is they don't do redemption = death with him. Thus far the objective best redemption arc in star wars is Kallus. In part BECAUSE they didn't make redemption = death for him. And I gotta be honest: kallus' redemption arc isn't that good. I feel like with crosshair they could give it NUANCE and DEPTH and WAY more attention than they gave Kallus' arc (fair kallus is a super minor character).

Anyway Crosshair may be my favourite charater in tbb. I want to poke him with a stick and make him cry.

[itsaboutnothing]

Scared Scared

[saminthea]

Okay so. I reblogged a post a couple weeks ago about how the diagnostic criteria for Autism for the next DSM is going to be more restrictive, making it more difficult to get an autism diagnosis. Which I was just as upset as the OP about at the time. But since then I've gained additional information and I thought I'd share with the class.

The symptoms and symptom clusters that currently make up an Autism diagnosis is likely actually several separate disorders that were being grouped as Autism because we didn't know enough about the separate disorders. Since the last edition of the DSM there's been a bunch of extra research and genetic testing and analysis of symptom clusters. So we know enough now to make the more specific disorder specifications now.

So the diagnostic criteria of Autism is shrinking. That doesn't mean everyone who previously had an Autism diagnosis but no longer qualifies are going to be floating without labels that help get necessary accommodations. It just means you're going to fall into new categories instead. Like when Aspbergers stopped being a diagnosis and it got tied to Autism Spectrum Disorder (but in the opposite direction).

This doesn't mean you're not allowed to be upset! There's a lot of community to be found with fellow autistic people, and there have been a lot of recent strides in the acceptance and understanding of Autism as a disorder (with the general public). That loss of community is going to feel huge, and it's going to be an uphill battle to spread awareness of the new labels for the current symptom clusters.

But it's not the end of the world and it's going to result in more accurate and precise diagnosies.

[the-bloody-sadist]

not to be passive agressive /sar

since you hate ranpo and ranpo's storyline literally IS the autistic experience...

Oh, that one's easy. Ranpo's not autistic. He's a badly-written character with badly-placed plot uses. Characters don't get to have fan-headcannon labels used as weapons against people who hate their existence.

Also putting /sar after that first sentence is wildly confusing LMAO am I supposed to read your tone as sarcasm because you're NOT NOT trying to be passive aggressive, therefore you ARE being passive aggressive? Is that also part of the autistic experience idk

[liminalpsych-in-teyvat]

[infestedguest]

“Appropriate play,” “unwanted behaviors,” I AM STRANGLING U WITH MY MIND RN.

Autistic people are significantly more likely to develop depression and anxiety, but noooo, the real issue that I, a medical professional, need to be treating is that this kid is “playing wrong”.

Treating any kind of neurodivergence in a manner where the goal is to make the patient more palatable to neurotypicals and not to, you know, actually fucking help the person who actually has the condition deal with issues relating to it has got to be some kind of violation of the hippocratic oath (or really just common sense in general).

Like imagine if you had whooping cough and you went to the doctor and instead of actually treating your whooping cough they were like “well all your hacking and wheezing is probably making it harder for your roommates to get to sleep at night, so how about you just stop breathing?”