#mental illness suport

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Pamela Paresky

Published: Oct 9, 2024

Jews across the world have the sense that the “universal collective” to which we thought we finally belonged has thrown us out and turned its back.

Ever since witnessing an ecstatic pro-Hamas celebration in Time Square just 24 hours after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, I thought nothing could surprise me. Then to commemorate the one-year anniversary of those atrocities, the Guardian published an essay by Naomi Klein titled, “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war.”

“What is the line between commemorating trauma and cynically exploiting it?” Klein asks. “Between memorialization and weaponization? What does it mean to perform collective grief when the collective is not universal, but rather tightly bound by ethnicity?”

As someone who encountered gruesome videos of Hamas’s “cynical exploitation” and “weaponization” of Israelis’ trauma exactly a year ago, watched as terrorists referred to terrified Israelis in the South — those who just happened to be most likely to oppose “settlements” — as settlers and dogs, and heard firsthand from people who witnessed livestreams of family and friends held at gunpoint, most of them murdered or taken hostage, I found the premise grotesque.

It was particularly appalling because beyond the therapeutic effect of creating artwork, the cri de cœur that motivated the art installations from Tel Aviv to American college campuses, “kidnapped” posters across the globe, the Nova Exhibition, online maps of the massacres, and documentaries about October 7, is the denials of the trauma itself. And the feeling that since that horrific day, we have been abandoned. That we are profoundly alone. That every day in Israel is October 7th.

Given the depth of depravity of what happened that day, some Jews initially believed the world would finally stand with Israel. I didn’t. But I did think that everyone would at least condemn the atrocities. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Israel has faced obscene denialism and false accusations while young people across the globe celebrate monstrous barbarism and valorize those who perpetrated it. Jews across the world have the sense that the “universal collective” to which we thought we finally belonged has thrown us out and turned its back.

Where is the world’s outrage? Where is the world’s empathy? Where are the calls for Hamas to return our stolen souls? Where is the Red Cross? Where are the organizations and so-called allies with whom we stood, we marched, we campaigned? It’s #MeToo unless you’re a Jew.

American college students have borne the brunt of the rise in antisemitism. Days after the massacres, rapes, and kidnappings, when antisemitic student groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) used images of motorized hang-gliders to advertise their anti-Israel demonstrations, I wanted to believe that they didn’t know what really happened. When they used the same image to advertise celebrations of their “resistance” and “martyrs,” marking the one-year anniversary, they no longer had an excuse. “Happy October 7th everyone!” at least one school’s SJP posted on Instagram. They all refer to the massacres by the name the terrorists use for it, “Al Aqsa Flood.” To mark the anniversary, the openly pro-Hamas student group “Within Our Lifetime” (WOL) organized demonstrations, calling them “Students Flood NYC for Gaza.”

Last semester, Columbia University student activist Khymani James publicly declared, “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” and “be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” His anti-Zionist student group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) issued an apology for his remarks. This year, the group apologized to him for its “so-called apology,” which, they declared, “does not represent Khymani or CUAD’s values or political lines.”

That was apparent when CUAD celebrated a recent terrorist attack at a light rail station in Tel Aviv/Jaffa. Terrorists murdered 7, including the young mother of a baby, and wounded at least 16. The group referred to the horrors as a “bold attack” and a “significant act of resistance” that “reached deep into the heart of settler-colonial territory, further destabilizing the Zionist regime’s claims to security…”

Almost a year after going to the October 8 Times Square demonstration, I went back to the scene of the crime. This time, there were signs glorifying not just Hamas, but Hezbollah. There were also more activists, more keffiyehs, more police, and more of the same familiar chants calling for the eradication of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people.

“There is only one solution: intifada revolution.” (Bonus points for harking back to the Nazi “final solution.”) “Palestine,” if they got their way, would extend “from the river to the sea,” making everything within Israel’s current borders as Jew-free as the Palestinian territories. If you thought they wanted an end to the shootings, stabbings, beheadings, suicide bombings, rapes, tortures, kidnappings, burning people alive…etc., you’re sadly mistaken. “Globalize the intifada.” “Long live the intifada.”

To hear the media tell it, though, especially when demonstrators add “ceasefire now” to their chant list, they’re “anti-war activists.”

This year, while students across the country attempted to hold anniversary vigils for the victims of October 7, terrorist-sympathizers celebrated the same events within earshot. As if that weren’t enough, anti-Zionist posters now include images of red anemones, the symbol of Israel’s South — where the atrocities happened. This is especially galling because survivors of October 7 see the red anemone as a symbol of their connection to the land. Many now have tattoos of the flower to remind themselves of resilience, possibility, and hope.

Relatedly, a chant that stood out to me as I left the Times Square anniversary celebration is “Hey hey, ho ho; Zionism has got to go.” Maybe because it seems banal compared to the others, it doesn’t get much attention. But in some ways, it’s more illuminating. We all know that for terrorists and their supporters, intimidation, harassment, and unimaginable violence is their love language. “From the river to the sea” is a threat. “Intifada” is a call to arms. But “Zionism has got to go” is something else.

Our connection to our ancient, biblical, historical, and permanent home is intolerable to those who hate the Jews. Perhaps that’s why student-jihadis now appropriate not just the date of the worst massacre of Jews in most generations’ living memory, but’ symbols too: In addition to red anemones, there seems to have been a proliferation of Anti-Zionist charms and t-shirts sporting maps of Israel.

That our connection to the land predates the birth of Mohammed, that we are the prototypical indigenous people and our presence in the land has been continuous, that we acquired the land through purchases and other legal means, that the majority of Israelis have relatives who were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries, that the only non-colonial, non-imperial sovereign power that has ever existed in that land was, and is, Jewish, and that the State of Israel came about in exactly the same way as countries that don’t face delegitimization campaigns, all puts the lie to the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are “white settler-colonialist” robbers and thieves sent from Europe who stole land rightfully owned by ethnic Palestinians in 1948 — a time when there was no such designated ethnic group.

The Zionist-hating chant illustrates how antisemitic terrorists intend to take more from us than our land. They want to rob us of our hopes and dreams, too.

Maybe that’s why we always end up singing Hatikva when confronted by those who wish to destroy us — as if to say, “you might take our ability to live in peace today, but we won’t let you take our hopes and dreams.” As long as the heart within the Jewish soul yearns, and toward the East, an eye looks to Zion, our hope is not yet lost. Our hope is two thousand years old: To be a free people in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem.

A day before Klein’s poisonous piece, the New York Times published a fawning article about a student-founder of WOL, one of the anti-Zionist organizations behind many of the activities that make campuses hostile to Jews. “Pro-Palestinian Group Is Relentless in Its Criticism of Israel, and It Isn’t Backing Down,” the headline reads. The goal of WOL, to be clear, is to destroy Israel“ within our lifetime.” Calling that “criticism of Israel” is like referring to the defacing of priceless artwork as “criticism of Monet.”

WOL “has galvanized pro-Palestinian activists who are calling for the end of Israel,” the subtitle reads, “and [are] facing accusations of antisemitism.” The message seems to be: Let’s be reasonable. They don’t hate Jews. They just want to destroy the home of more than half of them — the one country where Jews aren’t a minority. Can you believe they’re accused of being anti-Jewish? The poor dears.

In the past year, I noticed a chant I don’t remember hearing before. It’s in Arabic, and it means “from water to water, Palestine will be Arab.” Anyone who thought this would finally put an end to the nonsensical claim that “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” wasn’t about the destruction of Israel might be right. It seems we’re all on the same page now: It is a call for the annihilation of Israel.

But get with the program; calling for the destruction of Israel is now merely “criticism.” To quote from Dr. Strangelove: Our source is the New York Times. 

[666godsperfectidiot]

I AM GONNA KMS @i-ate-the-sun7

[temsikghosts]

Reposting my fiansissel design so she appears on the new tags.

More info on her bellow the cut!

Sissel had always lived with her widowed father. Her mother died when she was still an infant from a decease, but she is always wearing her late mother’s scarf in her memory.

Sissel was a child when she first met Yomiel. They both attended the same school and she always felt bad for him, seeing how he was always so lonely and was always being bullied by other kids in school, so one day she defended him from the bullies who were tormenting him and introduced herself. Since Yomiel never had any friends, they quickly became very close friends and they spend the majority of their childhood together. But then she had to move to another country after her father got transferred for his job and they were forced to separate. She gave Yomiel her late mother’s red scarf as a way for him to remember her until she returns and Yomiel promised her he would give her the scarf back when they see each other again. (You can read the fanfic here! )

She came back years later, when she met Yomiel again, now as a teenager. Their friendship still remained strong, but it soon turned into something more as puberty hit them both and they started to see each other as more than just friends. Sissel started to find Yomiel’s clumsiness and awkwardness near her really cute and she finds his intelligence to be very attractive. She is really impressed at his great skills with computers and she often teases him about it. She also became quite popular in high school, attracting the eyes of many boys, but she only has eyes for her best friend, Yomiel. She often defended Yomiel whenever a bully mistreated him and she suports Yomiel with his family issues and is always there for him whenever he is feeling depressed about his family, serving as an emotional support for him. 

Sissel knew of his troubles with his family and often tried to help him out. Even her father would help him sometimes, since Yomiel and his mother had finantial difficulties from time to time. The bullying he suffers in school didn’t help him with his mental health either.

Her friendship with Yomiel soon blossoms into a teenage love and they start to date as soon as they graduate from High School. She pursues a career as an art teacher while Yomiel studies to become a Systems Engineer.

In their adulthood, Yomiel asks her hand in marriage and she accepts, but her father gets really ill and dies shortly after, leaving Sissel in a state of deep depression, since she was very close to her father, leaving only Yomiel to comfort her.

In the bad timeline (the one in which Yomiel dies after being struck by the Temsik meteorite) she can’t stand to live in a world without the man she loved ever since she was a child and being in a state of depression after her father’s death and now Yomiel’s, she can’t bear it anymore and commits suicide to join her beloved in the afterlife, without knowing of Yomiel’s undead status.

In the good timeline (averted fate) she is upset to learn about Yomiel’s arrest, but she still waits for him because he is the man she always loved ever since she was a child, even going as far as to break ties with the rest of her family for disapproving their union (since Yomiel became a “criminal” for taking a little girl hostage, her family now hates Yomiel and disaprooves of their union)

But she’s still really vulnerable because Yomiel just got arrested, almost lost his life in a terrible accident and she’s still trying to deal with the loss of her father. But luckly, that’s when Alma kicks in. Alma tries to comfort Sissel when they met in the hospital and Jowd encourages his wife to get close to Sissel and comfort her in any way she can, since Jowd now knows of Sissel’s suicide thanks to Yomiel and he’s afraid of what might happen to Sissel if she’s left unsupervised. So Sissel and Alma become really close friends during the time Yomiel is in prison, since Alma is always there to show Sissel her support, knowing how much the woman is distressed about everything that’s going on in her life right now.

So, Sissel in general is a really caring and loving woman who loves too much. Her love for her father was so great that when she lost him, she only had Yomiel as a support and when she lost that support too in a short time period, she became so desperate that she didn’t see an alternative and chose to end her life and rejoin her beloved in the afterlife. She relies on people close to her for support and she loses that support, she is in complete despair. But luckly both Alma and Jowd supported her when Yomiel was in prison and helped her along. She also waited for Yomiel, just like when they were children and Yomiel kept his promisse to wait for her. Her love for him is that strong, though I still believe that if she knew the truth about that night, it could still stain their relationship a lot, since she knew him from childhood and never would expect him to do the things he did. (And that’s why I prefer her to never find out about it in the first place. Let her live in sweet oblivion!) ‘Cause like, I can’t really imagine a good outcome if she knew. She would probably refuse to accept it and well, when she is in the bottom of despair, we know what happens to her life so… yeah, I prefer her not knowing.

Since it is stated in canon that she killed herself for him, I always assumed that, for her to be in this kind of despair (and also for Yomiel to name his cat after her and be so desperate over her death) that their love started when they were both really young and has lasted for most of their lives. And also that she was already suffering from a previous trauma (like her father’s sudden passing) because for a person to think about suicide as their only option, they must be REALLY desperate and with no one to support her… You saw what happened.

[fipindustries]

the thing chuck doesnt understand is that jimmy pulls his punches so much when it comes to dealing with him. jimmy is so clever and so resourceful and if he was just 5% more ruthless he could have fucked chuck a thousand times over. but jimmy goes easy on him, and will sabotaje himself for the sake of chuck because he truly loves him. in a way that i dont think chuck reciprocates.

like, in a sense chuck is almost a bit of a crybully, he is the definition of "cries in pain as he strikes you". his mental illness has served him for cover from jimmy's anger so many times, and the fact that he is willing to harm himself (or rather subject himself to his own imagined form of self harm) just so that he can fuck over jimmy. there is something really disgusting in the way that he acts all pathetic and like he is enduring terrible torture as he goes out of his way to block jimmy. because he is either faking it just so he can get sympathy or believe himself a martyr, or he is genuine in which case he must really fucking hate jimmy if he is willing to endure that.

and i dont believe for a second that this comes from some noble concern for law or justice. its plainly obvious that it comes from jealousy. he is jealous because people like jimmy, whereas they only respect him. his dad would not believe jimmy did anything wrong, his mom spent her last words calling for jimmy while chuck was right there, his ex wife was delighted by jimmy's humor and she ended up leaving him. even his own workers and partners, earnest, kim, even howard when he didnt stop jimmy from joining the other lawyer firm. they support jimmy, liying cheating jimmy, slipping jimmy. they suport and give second chances to this conman over him who worked so hard to get where he is. chuck is just so fucking salty over it and he cant stand it.

and the saddest thing is that he is right. jimmy IS a liar, jmmy cheats and cuts corners and takes shortcuts and a lot of times that ends up biting him in the ass. but the way chuck puts himself above jimmy and tries to stop him at every turn just pushes jimmy away more and more.

and the thing is that i feel chuck is starting to take a bit for granted the fact that jimmy cares for him and that this is the only thing keeping him in check. i wouldnt be surprised if this last stunt where he recorded jimmy ends up being the straw that breaks the camels back and make jimmy no longer hold back.

i think chuck is about to find out he has a lot more to lose than jimmy does and that he cant play the game as well a jimmy can when he no longer cares about who he hurts

[jackalmanmybeloved]

15 boy vs 30-43 years demons

These mentally ill people are called grifterwolf and Shagsterp. They are confirmed as pedophiles. They want a 15-year-old boy to be sexually abused.

I need you to remove all traces of thundercats or jackalman from your profiles or I swear they are not rest

Suport Jackalpersi artist So that these sick people do not continue doing harm

[isaac031]

Neurodivergent is literally someone who isn't neurotypical, no matter if the mental illness is more represented in modern media or pleasant to have than others (which is never pleasant, people have very difficult lives because of it).

If you suport people with autism, ADHD, and similar, but then frown upon people with "scary" mental illnesses, I recommend shutting up for just a minute and think about what that shows of you as a preson.

i think when some of you say "neurodivergent" you just mean adhd and autism

[mentalhealthandlgbt-blog]

Post about mental illnesses in society

One thing I have - and I’m sure everyone has - noticed it that mental illnesses fall into 2 “categories” with people who don’t have them: relatable/romanticized and crazy/scary.

The mental illnesses I mostly see romanticized and downplayed are anxiety, depression, OCD, and eating disorders. I often see these disorders used as adjectives - such as “she looks so anorexic” or “you’re so OCD” - in response to very basic human things that quite a lot of people do, feel, and look like.

To those that see these things as “relatable”:

Being nervous is different than having anxiety. Being sad over something is different than being depressed. Being skinny is different than being anorexic. Being heavier is different than being bulimic or having an over-eating disorder. Wanting things to be neat and organized is different than having OCD.

Sometimes, mental illnesses like these make you more prone to any of those experiences. But having those experiences doesn’t suddenly mean you have a mental illness.

The other category people tend to place mental illnesses in is scary/crazy. Some of the main disorders I see placed in this category are schizophrenia, BPD, and paraphilias.

As much as I hate to admit it, I used to be wary of these mental illnesses. But, the more I’ve learned about them, the less I stigmatize them; the more I understand that the mental illness isn’t all that makes up the person.

I think that this really would be the case for most people. Part of what I want to do with this blog is to educate people about different mental illnesses. If people knew the reality, then they most likely wouldn’t fear or romanticize them anymore.

[firescream82]

[stcarowrites]

Old place

*TW: depression, suicidal thoughts.*

There is a bad place mentally that only who struggles with these know how it is.

You know how it smells, how it sounds. You know the color palette.

You know how cold is there. You like to think that if it was a happier place, it could had some snow. Just like in Christmas movies.

But it isn’t, so the snow never came.

Its like a swirl in the middle of the ocean. When you realize, you are already there.

You try to fight with all your forces do get out. You swim so much, with everything that exists in you. But you can’t get out. It is useless.

In fact, everyone knows that you can’t swim when you are in a swirl. But you can’t let yourself get in there without a good fight.

You see, the thing about this place is that you never know if you will get out. Thats why you don’t want to get in again.

But here you are.

You are getting closer and you already can see her.

She is smiling at you.

“It is been a while, old friend”.

Her arms are open to you.

And when you look into her eyes, you know that you are back again.

She holds you, puts you in her lap.

She moves her fingers through your hair.

And in that moment, you feel your skin hurting.

You close your eyes and the tears starts rolling.

She shushs you.

“We are together one more time”.

The truth is that it hurts her see you suffering like this.

So she gives you alternatives. Or, as she likes to call them, gifts.

She opens her hands and you can see it.

She promises you something bigger than eternal love.

She promises you that the pain will go again.

“Imagine, child, don’t feel this anymore, I promise you, come with me, and you will be free”.

You catch her presents and feel their weight.

Its heavier than earth.

Something inside you tells you the truth. This is not the right path.

Bukowski once said that you always have to keep a flame inside you, to save you from this.

And yours in this moment is burning.

You think about your mother, your sister, about the mount everest that one day you wanna see with your own eyes.

You put the gifts in her hands.

“Thank you, but not today.”

You still aren’t ready to leave.

She puts them aside, and starts to singing some old sad song.

And you let yourself cry until sleep in her lap.

The thing is, maybe tomorrow, when you wake up, you will be out of there. She will be some old memory of a bad day. Maybe you wake up in her arms again. Sometimes it takes longer to leave her.

But you have to keep fighting.

You know better than staying in her arms.

You know better than staying in that place.

But you need to believe in that tiny flame inside you: it is worth it. Life is worth it. Get out of there is worth it. Leaving her is worth it.

Maybe you will see her again.

It seems that she can’t be away from you. But thats okay.

You will sit in her lap one more time. She will play with your hair and sing you sad songs.

She will show you her gifts.

That’s what she does. That’s who she is.

But your flame will burn once again. You will thank her, and put them aside.

Just one more time. Thats what you will say in each time. One more time until the rest of your life.

Just one more time, endless times.

Don’t let that flame go out. Not today, not tomorrow, not never.

[projetovoceimporta-blog]

A solidão virou epidemia num mundo cada vez hiperconectado. Que triste ironia...

Projeto Você Importa

[bigtransmoods]

Anti self diagnosing here :)

Sometimes, it’s hard to get doctors appointments and sometimes it’s hard to pay for the medication you need but it still doesn’t mean you can self diagnose. I only say this because you are not a professional, a website is not a professional, your friend with a mental illness is not a professional. You can tell yourself in your heart and head, “I have x mental illness” all day but its not valid unless it’s diagnosed by a doctor. 

I spent two years trying to get a diagnosis of depression when I was severely mentally ill with a variety of mental health issues and did I tell people I was depressed? No, because I didn’t know yet and it would be incredibly insensitive to say I was mentally ill if I ended up being mentally well. 

I see a lot of young people self diagnosing themselves with things that are horrible, things that are very rare, and things that they only show probably two actual symptoms of. 

I don’t support it and after multiple hospital stays, spending time on a mental health unit and ward, being perceived as “insane, psychopath, and crazy,” it feels horrible that you can tell everyone you’ve got depression after feeling low mood for two weeks whilst I had to wait two years for a diagnosis and to be taken seriously. If you need the help, get it but in the mean time don’t self diagnose because half of you really have no idea what is wrong with you mentally. Some of the things I’ve been diagnosed with I didn’t even consider, so don’t even play around like you know exactly what’s going on. 

[goprojectfour]

Taking medication DOES NOT make you a weak person, or means that you can’t handle your own mental illness. It means the opposite: that you were strong enough to seek help, and are doing everything you can to take care of yourself. 💜

[silverlou21]

Sometimes we feel alone.

Sometimes we want to.

But we shall never stay that way, for that might make thought become reality.

If you don’t care for yourself, then no one will. So stay strong and keep fighting. You don’t want to lose your family.

Don’t walk away, but towards it. Sure it has a rough surface, nevertheless a diamond shines bright inside.

You can feel alone, that’s alright.

You can chose to be, that’s fine.

But don’t stay that way for too long,and remember that family is your diamond, strong and bright. That will help you break the barriers that society builds up high.

[the-holy-void]

Trying to be loving and supportive to my friends, even tho I am in a dark place 😬

[fightzclub]

If you’re mentally ill you don’t have to take meds if you don’t want to but don’t act like just spur of the moment going off your meds and stopping therapy makes your art better and will make you a better artist and like that’s a good message to prompt.

[schizzo-me-things]

I am really upset about how people say they are going to support me when they don’t know anything about my illness and how my illness effects my everyday life.