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if someone on the schizospectrum says "dont say schizo" maybe DONT SAY SCHIZO !!!!
#just a heads up im schizospec#reclaimed slurs#caps cw#cw caps#caps tw#tw caps#capital letters#caps#tw aggression#schizotypal personality disorder#aggression#<- tagging just in caseies#actually schizotypal#schizospec#schizoid#schizophrenia#schizoaffective#actually schizospec#schizophrenic spectrum#schizospec safe#cw abelism#tw abelism#abelism cw#abelism tw
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rewatching blood hungry makes me desperate 2 write terrible incomprehensible posts abt cm series 1 + 2 and psychosis/schzospec stuff and spencer <3
#o#i was thinking last week abt the part in imagining autism where the author writes a bit abt spencer in her analysis of the autistic#detective trope and i like tht book and i like and agree w/ a lot of her analysis of the trope and spencer in gen#but she does sort of skim over the schizophrenia stuff#and also i dont agree w/ her attribution of spencer saying 'i know wht its like to be afraid of ur own mind' purely to his autism#whn in the same ep he brings up diana's diagnosis and its still like firmly in tht s1/2 schizo scare story 'arc' lol (altho i dont disagree#entirely as the show often kind of conflates the two and not in like a well resrearched clinical overlap way haha)#but i guess thts also kind of a bigger issue at large in like all non-schizo communities haha#invoking schizospec stuff in any discussion not abt or by the community always gets ppls backs up lol#anyway i just think its interesting 2 see the divide in both the shows narative arnd spencer and like fan/critical interpretation of spence#in regards 2 him being autistic vs being schizospec#(not tht those r mutually exclusive lol thts literally me)#but i just feel like schizophrenia being this looming Threat above his head is such a weird addition 2 a sort of generic#schizo psychos fucked up crime show (my FAVOURITE shcizo psychos fucked up crime show tho fejr)#like its not GOOD but its interesting to me tht they sort of do two types of bad schizo rep at once#and blood hungry is my fav bad psychosis rep cause they do the mandatory 'psychotics r usually less violent thn the average populations <3'#line while also being like 'this guys a fucking PSYCHO' every two seconds fejrfe#and im being serious tht is very funny to me !!!!!!!!!!#blorp ..... anyway#trying 2 be serious abt tv!autism and tv!schizophrenia and tv!psychosis is kind of pointless perhaps haha
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so i have schizotypal personality disorder and one of my closest friends unfortunately usually ends up being the target of my persecutory (?) delusions and other brain gunk, generally they get the brunt of my ire (in my head, at least. i do not express this to their face ever because i know im full of shit & care very much about not hurting them)
but my point in making this post is does anyone know if there's a word or label for this phenomenon? like for people who you care about and are close to but are for whatever reason consistently the person you're convinced is trying to ruin your life when you start to go into an episode? does anyone else with a personality disorder or psychosis or who is schizospec experience this? like is this just a me specific freak behavior or is there precedent for this
#schizospec#schizotypal#stpd#schizotypal personality disorder#cluster a#psychosis#personality disorders#help lol#paranoia#delusions#tagging everything relevant i can think of so maybe someone who knows something will see this#free to rb
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preemptive warning for discussion of violence, abuse, and sexual assault in the links ahead
one of the many frustrating parts of schizospec paranoia is that, when it comes to more realistic fears, it gets hard to tell whats The Mental Illness and whats actually justified, at least to a degree. people with schizospec disorders are more likely to be the victims of violence, with some estimates claiming those with schizophrenia are 14x more likely to be victims of violent crimes than they are to commit violent crimes and twice as likely as the general public to be victims of violent crimes, and people with "severe mental illnesses" overall have been repeatedly reported to be at a much higher risk of being the victim of violence.
when you account for other factors which can put an individual at further risk of violence and abuse - physical and intellectual disabilities, race, gender, sexuality, or religion for example - you can easily see that theres plenty of fuel for persecutory fears.
when you account for the fact that schizospec disorders, especially their paranoid symptoms, can be exacerbated and even partially caused by trauma such as being the victim of abuse, and the revictimization rate for victims of such mistreatment, even more fuel is clearly being added. schizospec symptoms can easily mesh with symptoms of ptsd, resulting in paranoid fears that are, to some degree, based in factual events in a persons life.
so, with the way schizospec disorders muddle up our thought processes, it becomes especially difficult to know whether our fears are based in any form of fact or not. i experience fears that people are obsessively attracted to me, because ive been mistreated by past partners and by those who i wasnt involved with like that but who still took their own feelings for me too far. its difficult for me to discern whether people are actually attracted to me, and wanting to harm me because of it, or if its all just my synapses misfiring. i simultaneously have a constant feeling that the people around me are scared of me or see me as less than a person, and are therefore planning on causing me immediate harm or working behind the scenes to ruin my life, but these fears draw on actual experiences of being told im scary or pitiful or lesser, having people actually make efforts to hurt me in one way or another, so on and so forth. i am not the only one experiencing this, im confident.
and then you factor in the fact that those of us with schizospec disorders are most often socially isolated to some degree - the dsm even lists social isolation and difficulty maintaining close relationships to be a symptom of schizotypal personality disorder, for one thing i remember off the top of my head. were seen as strange, unnerving, unnatural, our behaviors are abnormal, we dont connect with others the way we "should", we communicate in confusing ways. every day i feel as if i have an aura emanating off of me that other "normal" people can sense, that tells them im a threat. and so it becomes increasingly difficult for us to find support, for our symptoms, or for the aftermath of discrimination and violence. we often arent truly "people" in the eyes of non schizospecs, rather were psychos, crazies, potential killers. we become collateral damage, acceptable targets. and it becomes easy to brush off our concerns for our own safety, because its more convenient to chalk things up to us just being delusionally paranoid rather than putting in the effort to actually examine the situation and the facts of how dangerous life is for mentally ill people.
i know that my thinking is disorganized here, and im doing the "flowery language" thing because its a serious topic and its hard to put into more succinct terms than dancing around what im saying. so i hope that what im trying to say is actually coming across clearly. my point is that im tired of second guessing myself and never knowing whether my fears of persecution are based in fact or not, and im tired of the social isolation that comes with this shit. im tired of feeling like if anything happens to me its going to be brushed off as just symptoms and not a real problem that matters to anyone except me
EDIT 8/19/2023: because i got reminded of this old post, i want to add that since posting this ive realized i also have npd. usually i keep my npd talk to a side blog because im not super comfortable talking about my symptoms on main, but i do want to add the clarification that the paranoia i talk about in this post is ALSO very very heavily tied to my npd in addition to my being schizospec. and in a way that makes me feel even more vulnerable, because people with npd tend to be villainized and treated as if our problems are just exaggerations to get attention. so when you combine the stigma against both conditions... its fucking rough out here, idk what else to say.
#rape cw#sa cw#abuse cw#violence cw#ableism cw#schizospec#schizo spectrum#schizophrenia#stpd#schizotypal#schizotypal personality disorder#schizoafective#schizoid#schizoid personality disorder#szpd#i feel like i remember hearing that theres a bit more of a distinction with szpd from the others i tagged#but im also pretty sure its schizospec? it has the schiz part. so#feel free to correct me#mental heath awareness#menhera
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#HONESTLY#i dont EVER bring up my anxiety and trauma if im getting a physical issue treated. it will be dismissed immediately
I had a doctor once ask my father to leave the room, then proceeded to tell me that my sore throat was all in my head, and I was making it up for attention -- because I was bipolar. I told him no, that wasnt the case, I was genuinely sick, and he rolled his eyes, said he would do a strep test "to make me feel better", did the test, and left. 20 minutes later he came back and told me the strep test came back positive. No apology, nothing.
This was for strep throat. I had similar things happen for much more important stuff that I dont want to get into. I'm in the middle of a very long process for a condition thats giving me progressive spinal cord damage, and all I can think about is that if I had "substance use disorder" on my medical record, how likely is it that I would just not have been listened to about this. If you have anxiety youre a "hypochondriac". If you're an addict you're "drug seeking". if you're bipolar or schizospec you're making it up, possibly for attention. This shit kills people. This isnt even getting into the inherently carceral nature of the psychiatric system in the US (and elsewhere)
Doctors are not, in fact, neutral figures that can be blindly trusted with any and all information, and pretending they are can literally get people killed. Abled people have GOT to do better.
I KNOW THE ORIGINAL QUOTE. This is about how people misquote it, as well as how they view the phrase as meaning "all medical professionals". ALSO! emts are not the neutral figures you think they are. please stop spewing your lack of understanding on the topic all over my tags, its embarrassing.
finally, THIS POST IS ABOUT DRUGS. FIRST AND FOREMOST IT IS ABOUT DRUGS. THIS WAS WRITTEN BY AN ADDICT. the way yall are talking about addicts and drugs users in the tags is so fucking dehumanising. you are part of the problem. Id suggest non addicts shut their traps please and thank you.
i wrote this in the notes of another post originally and am copy + pasting it here because im right but "tell the cops nothing, tell the doctors everything" is such a stupid ass fucking abled take. doctors engage in policing idk how to explain to yall that some people cannot in fact just tell doctors everything without it putting them at risk
like im not gonna go into the myriad of ways this is bs but like a quick example is i cant tell my doctors about my substance use issues because if i get that listed on my medical records it will actively endanger me. It will impact how I'm treated in emergency situations and will get me labeled as "drug seeking" when i try to get other issues dealt with.
i dont say this to scare people but because this is actually important information for people to have. if a medical professional claims this isnt an issue, they are NOT "one of the good ones". they are either straight up lying or theyre utterly unaware, which is frankly not better. doctors are cops. never forget it
like YES tell ur doctor abt being sexually active but stop saying "tell the cops nothing and the doctor everything" before i start killing in cold blood
#lmk if u want me to remove ur tags !#ceci says stuff#this is a doctor hate blog#<- tag both for sorting and because its true#disability
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(ie the recent wolf pup post that got tagged with angel, alien, etc. even though it was specifically a wolf thing). It's spamming a lot of tags with content that's irrelevant to those tags right now. I know it's easier to just copy-paste a long list of tags, but it's getting pretty spammy and I also suspect you may end up driving people away from your blog because of it - I just wanted to give you a heads-up; ultimately it's your blog, of course. Thanks for your consideration! (2/2)
thank you for taking tje time to send this message.. ah shit i didnt realize that, sorry! ill fix that when im not super busy + due to my psychosis/schizospec i have delusions about being nonhuman so thats why i put it in tjat tag+similar conditions.. hmm what tags should iput that might be more relevent?
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this disability pride month i challenge non schizospecs to stop saying "schizo"
if someone on the schizospectrum says "dont say schizo" maybe DONT SAY SCHIZO !!!!
#just a heads up im schizospec#schizospec safe#actually schizospec#schizospec#reclaimed slurs#(stop saying an ableist slur challenge !1!! so difficult 😱😱‼️)
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