#fuck psychology

[psychabolition]

self diagnosis here misdiagnosis that... . What if I told you that all of these solely descriptive labels have been made up to stigmatize our experiences, our pain, our neurodiversity and mental distress by pathologizing them.

[alittlebitofloveliness]

No because actually fuck academia because how am I supposed to make a research proposal using valid measures when I cant find a free pdf or downloadable version anywhere??? These should be publicly available and they would be if academia in general didn't have a massive superiority complex

[tinkerbitch69]

Not to be flippant to this very relevant point but weren’t they all really?

"calling people who dont have NPD narcissists is ableist and stigmatizes NPD" darling i dont know how to tell you this but "narcissist" was an insult long before they decided self-absorption was a neurological disorder. the diagnosis was literally made specifically to medically justify an existing social stigma.

[dragoninahumancostume]

I love it when I go to the doctor for constant joint pain and then they tell me that I need to exercise more and it should be solved. And then I feel like it's my fault my body hurts every day except that I literally can hardly exist because I'm depressed and getting out of bed most days is enough of a struggle and I have no motivation most of the time. And I have too much anxiety to even consider the gym (also I WILL fry if I go to the gym. I don't know the actual reason I just know it's going to happen.)

[random-knowone]

i hate the psych that i went to last year. he was very condescending and unhelpful generally speaking, but he just. made it worse. he said my self diagnoses were wrong and just left it at that. no follow ups or anything.

"why are you upset? it's a good thing you don't have ___!"

"why do you want to have ___ so much?"

because it was an answer. a reason. an explanation for why everything is so difficult and simply existing is painful. i would have been fine with being told i was wrong, if i was provided with alternative diagnoses instead of just being told i just had the only answers i could find torn away from me.

[yugen001]

TW- Jimmy/Disturbing imagery

Pony Express Tulpar crew (sketches!!)

idk why the quality’s kinda bad 😭 sorry yall

[allthatispeculiar]

[lazylittledragon]

does anyone want 700 pages of cyra lore or are you normal

[lustwithoutlore]

Damian, walking into the Batcave: I require assistance.

Dick: Sure, Dami! What can I help you with?

Damian: Not from you.

Bruce, thinking: Damian... Damian needs... father's help? MY help?

Bruce, being way too fucking smug: Ah, well, Dick, don't be sad. Sometimes a boy just needs his father. How can I help you, son?

Damian: Not from you, either. I require assistance from Stephanie.

Stephanie: HA! SUCK IT, BRUCE!

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that iron bull opens his recruitment conversation with pretending he doesn't quite remember the name of the the inquisition's ambassador. Jose-what's-her-name-again. he's just a big dumb jock no thoughts head empty mercenary who likes fighting and drinking don't worry about lil old me inquisitor! I'll hit things for you if you'd like as long as you pay me! ],) and then right after he reveals he's a spy he drops that he knows not only the name of your spymaster and how she operates but also her haircolour. (but like in a safely bro-y way tho! make that fighting and drinking and fucking! I'll be useful to you but in a real meathead non-threatening kind of way I'll be too busy bedding chantry sisters to do any real harm ],) continue to not worry about lil old me inquisitor!)

god bull you're so multidimensionally and fine-tunedly full of shit I love you so much fhdksah

[psychabolition]

Forensic psych wards are the worst that prison X psychiatry came up with together. Most people that get locked up there will spend their whole lives being tortured, drugged, violated and abused. a lot of them never get released . People regularly kill themselves in there and suffer brain damage and death because of the medication they get prescribed . over the years and centuries most lose contact to everyone on the "outside" . So tell me again, how psychiatry serves to help us and prisons serve to protect us when so many of us are stigmatized, isolated, oppressed and killed in places like these. Prison abolition 🤝Psych abolition .

[zombolouge]

The thing is, it's not about the Therapy Speak. It's not that everyone who disliked DAV hates healthy communication as a dynamic in fiction. It's not even about only being allowed to be a good guy, really, because most of us did do that anyways (though the option not being there is a loss I grieve even if I never chose it myself, but that's another rant for another day).

It's that DAV does all that stuff at the expense of being believable. At the expense of characters being permitted to have personalities. At the expense of emotions behaving the way emotions actually work for people. At the expense of letting the plot build tension through the stakes we're forced to grapple with.

Half the fics out there take the conflicts between the characters in the previous games and resolve them. I do it myself ALL THE TIME because I like to find a path to resolution through just about any conflict, that's what fascinates me about telling these stories. But the higher the stakes, the harder a conflict is to resolve. You CAN resolve any conflict, you CAN communicate healthily through any emotion, but you can't skip the time it takes to process it all to even be able to communicate it. As someone whose got CPTSD and recovered from many Traumas, I can tell you that the TIME it takes to work through it is not something you can fast track, and the ups and downs of your emotions on that journey can't be skipped. It doesn't matter if you know exactly how to do it, exactly how it's going to feel, or exactly what the end state will be, you CAN'T speedrun it.

DAV has stakes that are astronomical, but nobody treats them that way. Nobody experiences denial - a common psychological reaction to being presented with information that shatters your worldview. Nobody expresses any distrust in the establishments handing out this information - something common among cultures that have at times been at war, even if those wars are "resolved" in the present. Nobody really ever breaks down - something that any person is capable of under extreme circumstances, especially when facing multiple crises of faith that challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves. Nobody blows their lid because they've been repressing the hell out of everything. Nobody grieves for southern Thedas, the entire thing dying off screen and giving you, the player, NO way to engage with it in any way.

Not to mention there are barely any inter-party conflicts, when there should be a lot more. Why is everyone (except Spite) fine with it if Emmrich sacrifices Manfred to become a lich? Why is everyone fine with Illario potentially being set free if he was working with the venatori and Elgar'nan, two sources that have actively attacked everyone in the party? Why doesn't Neve resent Lucanis if Treviso is picked? Why doesn't Harding get pissed off at Nevarra for having a secret society of liches that never helped during the Inquisition's war against the breach and corypheus? Why doesn't Harding feel ANYTHING about Ferelden and the rest of the south? Shouldn't Harding resent the fact that she's stuck in the north while her home dies?

All of these conflicts ARE resolvable, but not easily. And it's not believable that they're never brought up. It's not believable that these characters skip through everything that happens with like, barely a frowny face most of the time. In DAO, Alistair leaves if you don't treat his conflicts with respect. In DA2, your party members try to kill each other if you don't pay attention to their conflicts/emotional needs. In DAI, people can leave or betray you, Cassandra throws a chair at Varric and tries to body him out a window. ALL of these can be resolved but it takes effort, and the characters get to SHOW that they're bothered by them and struggling the way a person would when faced with those emotions.

The problem isn't the therapy speak, or that everyone is loyal and won't leave, or that they aren't mean to each other enough. It's that it's toxic positivity. It's toxic as fuck to imply that anger or grief should be smiled over or else you're giving up, and it's damaging to people to avoid engaging with their own negative emotional responses to extremely negative stimuli. It's pasting optimism over very real, very weighty issues, sweeping it all under the rug, and you keep waiting for the lid to blow off the pressure cooker that creates, but it never does. It never becomes anything that emulates real emotions, which is why the whole damn thing feels hollow. Everything's dying and nobody cares, not even about themselves, and that's NOT healthy communication.

It's bullshit, half-assed storytelling that didn't tell us the actual story, just the vague idea of what it could have been.

[laestoica]

¿Para qué pagar por lo que tú misma puedes hacer?

[bladeechan]

Ok..

[dysabria]

most of the time people get into fanfiction of a media AFTER they’ve consumed the media but i on the other hand have gotten into at least half of my favorite shows and books because i read a random amazing fanfiction about it one day and decided to go to the source

[chihirolovebot]

on a real note that bit near the end of the video was genuinely haunting. hearing somerton talk about how gay writers are erased from history was one thing (with all the irony being that he stepped on the backs of numerous underpaid, underprivileged and uncredited queer writers to build his youtube channel) but when h revealed it wasn't even somerton's quote in the first place? the worst, most crushing sort of irony. how do you lament about the erasure of gay people and gay writers in history... whilst erasing a gay writer and taking his words as your own?