#mood disorder

[ru-i-n]

[serenityquest]

[dhddmods]

Here we go again, with another design!

Everyone is free to use this design on shirts, stickers, pins, whatever they'd like, as long as they are using it for inclusive purposes! Just don't claim it as your own, please.

The transparent version:

A second version with a background, for easier viewing:

The individual symbols (that we made), transparent:

The meaning behind the symbols go as follows:

Neurodevelopmental disability symbol: The two heads facing in opposite directions with arrows facing in different ways represent the difference in thinking patterns between neurodevelopmentally disabled people, and non-neurodevelopmentally disabled people. The black and white also represents these differences, however it alternatively can symbolize the "black and white thinking" that is often seen in neurodevelopmental conditions. The spectrum of colors represents the spectrum of possibilities in mental abilities.

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Cognitive disorder symbol: We made this one based on several symbols we've seen before. In the symbols we saw before, the gear was broken, but we personally didn't like this concept, as it implied that the person's brain is "broken" for having a cognitive disorder. So instead, we made it where one of the gears is slightly outside of the head - to represent inaccessibility of certain skills or memories, as it is "out of their head."

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Learning disability symbol: This symbol represents people with learning disabilities. This includes dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, nonverbal learning disability, and intellectual disabilities. It can also include autism, ADHD, CDS, and neurological communication disabilities. The ABC symbol represents difficulty with reading, writing, or grammar. The speech bubble represents difficulty with verbal communication. The 123 symbol represents difficulty with numbers. The plus, minus, division, and multiplication symbols represents difficulty with math.

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Neurological communication disability symbol: The morphing speech symbol represents how communication does not process in the typical manner (language disabilities), or it does not verbally come out in the intended manner (speech disabilities.)

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Neurological sensory conditions symbol: The circles overlap with each other and with the center circle, to represent how all senses can overlap in certain conditions (ie; many types of synesthesia.) The first symbol, with the exclamation mark inside of the figure, representing interoception. The second symbol, with the swirl in the oval, is meant to resemble a fingerprint, to represent touch. The third symbol is an eye is for sight. The fourth symbol is an ear is for hearing. The fifth symbol is a nose for smell. The sixth symbol is a tongue for taste. The seventh symbol is for the vestibular system, with tildes around the rectangle to represent balance, and the arrows to represent speed. The eighth symbol is for proprioception, with the arrows pointing around the circle to represent movement.

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Epilepsy symbol: We based this symbol on the one made by @eldritch-collective. We just edited it and added a seahorse, as seahorses are a common epilepsy symbol, since the hippocampus (part of the brain) is shaped like a seahorse, and epilepsy occurs there.

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Movement disorder symbol: The wavy arrows around the figure represent involuntary movements (hyperkinesia) or difficulty with coordination (ataxia), while the electricity represents pain or difficulty with voluntary movements (hypokinesia). The open mouth represents vocal symptoms that occur for some movement disorders (ie; vocal tics), and the eyes represent movement disorders that affect eye movements.

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Neurodegenerative disorders symbol: The brain is full on one side, but has gaps on the other side, showcasing the loss of neurons. The arrow showcases the progression from a healthy brain to a degenerating one. The arrow goes through the gear in the middle, to show how the progression disrupts brain functions.

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Neurological sleep disorder symbol: The eye represents wakefulness or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, while the bed represents sleep.

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Neurological eating disorder symbol: The symbol is meant to look like both a handheld mirror (to represent body image issues) and a scale (to represent weight changes). The fork and spoon represent dietary changes.

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Addictive & dependent disorders: The chains around the thought bubble represent the struggles and restrictions of an addiction/dependence, and how its always on the person's mind.

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Behavioral disorder symbol: The thought bubble with the explosive symbol represents disruptive behaviors (ie; disruptive behavior disorders.) The thought bubble with the repeat symbol represents obsessive thinking (ie; OCD-spectrum disorders). The thought bubble with the exclamation mark represents impulsive or compulsive thinking (ie; impulse control disorders.) The two hands with the wall between them represents attachment issues (ie; attachment disorders), and how either avoidance or anxiety causes difficulty forming connections.

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Personality disorder symbol: The person with the swirls in their head represents Cluster A (or similar) personality disorders, and their odd mannerisms. The person with the upside down heart in their head represents Cluster B (or similar) personality disorders, with the upside down heart symbolizing how they experience emotions differently than others, and the upside down crown representing the self-serving or hierarchical mindsets/coping methods that often occur. The person with the squiggles and exclamation in their head represents Cluster C (or similar) personality disorders, and their anxious or obsessive feelings.

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Mood disorder symbol: The fog represents depressive disorders. The rainbow tornado represents mania. The lightning represents mood disorders that cause aggression (ie; disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.)

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Anxiety disorder symbol: The thought bubbles represent anxious thoughts. The overlap of the bubbles represents thought crowding. The explanation point represents impulsive or intrusive thinking, the question mark represents paranoia, and the squiggles represent mental spiraling and panic.

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The psychotic disorder symbol was made by @actuallyschizophrenic on Tumblr.

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Somatoform disorder symbol: The person inside the brain represents how the brain creates physical symptoms or how a person's physical health/body is consistently on the person's mind. The separation of body parts on the figure can represent specific areas that the person has symptoms in, areas that the person worries about, or it could be viewed as a wooden puppet to represent people with factitious disorder or malingering that manipulate their body or behaviors like a person playing a puppet.

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Dissociative disorder symbol: The blacked out thought bubble represents getting lost in another world (ie; immersive daydreaming or innerworlds) or loss/confusion of memory (ie; dissociative amnesia, identity alteration, and identity confusion.) The swirls around the head represents a separation between the body and reality (dissociative trance, autopilot, derealization, and depersonalization.)

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The plural rings, created by Tracee of Oure Gaiya.

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Trauma & stressor disorder symbol: The dove represents a person's sense of inner peace. The anchor that the dove is carrying has a double meaning, representing both the weight of trauma & stress, while also representing how a person with trauma often needs something comforting to anchor them to reality.

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Identity incongruence symbol: The figure in the center represents the physical body a person has. The brain with the heart and wispy symbol being separated from the body represents how a person with identity incongruence feels as though their brain or mind/soul are separate from one another. Around the person are the trans, altersex, intersex, alterhuman, regression, and plural symbols, as well as a handheld mirror to represent certain eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and body integrity dysphoria.

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Attractional disorder symbol: The symbol uses a combination of the (pro-recovery) paraphillic disorder symbol made by @a-hydrangea-named-acti, the hypo- symbol by @metan01aaa, and the hyper- hearts (which we could not find the origin for, as there are many versions of it.) It's meant to resemble a flower on a stock, blooming from the broken heart, with the overlapping hearts being leaves.

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Neurological sexual dysfunction symbol: The X over the person's pelvic area is meant to represent dysfunction, and the red that connects to the head represents how the dysfunction is neurological.

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Neurological perinatal disorder symbol: The symbol as a whole is vaguely meant to resemble a uterus, to represent pregnancy and birth. The shape in the center is meant to resemble both a heart and a person who is pregnant or holding a baby against their stomach, with a baby mobile hanging. On the baby mobile, the shapes are supposed to look like a fork, spoon, and handheld mirror to represent unhealthy eating & body image issues. The lightning bolt represents impulsive/compulsive thinking or disruptive behavior. The cloud represents anxiety. The sun and moon represent sleep disorders, while also representing depression and hypomania/mania. The swirl represents symptoms of psychosis or dissociation. The chain represents addictive/dependent symptoms or trauma. The X on the circle represents perinatal neurological sexual dysfunction or distressing physical symptoms.

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[my-pfp-is-my-current-intrest]

Reminder for people, especially people with mood disorders.

It's important when you're getting too angry to stop, drop, and roll!

Stop yapping

Drop what you're doing

And roll out of there until your ready to come back

It's not a bad thing to realize that you're getting too mad or might be blowing things out of proportion. You can tell the other person that you need so time to reevaluate. Reevaluation has helped me a lot from saying things I'll regret.

Stay stable :B👋

[zebulontheplanet]

I don’t talk about my mental health here much because well, this is mostly an autism page. But I think it’s good to bring awareness to all things. As some people know, I was recently sorta diagnosed with bipolar type Schizoaffective. It’s been a journey for sure. We’re still figuring out things and starting treatment. If it’s bipolar, it’s bipolar, if not, it’s another mood disorder similar to bipolar.

Hypomania has been something I have experienced multiple times but never realized was hypomania and thought it was simply ups from BPD, which I am formally diagnosed with. I never before realized that my days of being so high, weren’t BPD. However, hypomania has caused many things, and I’d like to talk about it.

Disclaimer: Hypomania is a Bipolar term. And is not something people with BPD or other mood disorders experience.

Hypomania has caused me to take on a religion I do not believe in and become obsessed with it. It’s a full on delusion. Hypomania has made it so I joined an online cult and put all my time into it. Hypomania has meant that I don’t sleep for days at a time (i sleep!! Just less than 3 hours at a time. More like naps.) I go high, do everything, do adventurous things and things I wouldn’t normally do, then I crash and sleep for a few hours, then I’m back at it again.

Hypomania is SCARY to me. It causes extreme paranoia, extreme mood swings, and extreme ups and downs in my moods.

It causes me to self harm, to hurt myself, to do things to my health that I wouldn’t in my right mind do. I won’t use my mobility aids, I’ll stop taking my medication, I’ll convince myself I’m unstoppable. I’ll walk miles even though my body can’t physically handle it. I’ll be in less chronic pain, if any, and therefore think I’m cured and on top of the world. I think I’m superior, I get shit done that I haven’t done in months and manically clean, organize, and yeah. My hypomanic episodes are not for the weak.

I get frustrated easily, I say rude things, I ruin, or almost ruin relationships with my carelessness and anger. I think of breaking up with my fiancé, even though I love them very much and would NEVER want to do that.

Hypomania is not a silly thing. I almost ruin my life EVERY SINGLE TIME. It’s hard to deal with hypomania. It’s hard to deal with me when I’m hypomanic. I’m hyper, I’m high. I’m all over the place. My heart races, and I feel like I just took a drug. I’m not myself. Me hypomanic is NOT me.

I wish more people realized that hypomania wasn’t just some silly thing, that it wasn’t something that is just silly goofy intrusive thoughts that you do. That it wasn’t just dying your hair and spending some money. (Although some people do that during hypomanic, it’s just so much more than that!!!) Hypomania is life changing. Realizing you’re hypomanic is life changing. Realizing that all your life those big highs and lows were something is life changing.

Don’t undermine hypomania. Don’t say that it’s not life ruining. Don’t say that it’s not “that bad”. It’s bad. Some people experience more calm hypomanic episodes, and I have DEFINITELY experienced more calm ones. But my hypomania is extreme most of the time. Let’s stop undermining hypomania. It’s a lot, and I wish more people realized that.

[jermpng]

Gentle Reminder - Sketch

[silkcamus]

BPD content on Tumblr and other social media websites are a small but important reason why I refused my BPD diagnosis at 15. It cemented in my head that BPD was constant, hopeless, and destined people to lead unstable and unfulfilling lives.

I want to see representations of people with BPD who have loving parents/friends/community. Representations of people with BPD who can lead productive and healthy lives.

I am not perfect in this aspect, but I think a small part of the struggle is having NO role models to show me that I can still have a productive day at work/school despite my big emotions and mood swings.

[marionmabelle]

the meds aren’t working 😜

[irlangelsdiary]

just a shoutout to any survivors <3

i see you.

i hear you.

i know its hard

i know some days are more difficult then others

but i also know you are strong, and brave.

i know you are going to get through this

i know you are going to heal

i know it will take one day at a time

but i know you will heal

we will heal

we will live without our trauma ruining us, we will love ourselves, empower ourselves and laugh and heal and one day it wont hurt as much.

one day.

[hbeepoetry]

End of the Carnival Ride in my Past, Present, and Future Life

[tombfreak]

We need more positivity posts and awareness on Bipolar Disorder. Really sucks to go onto the tags and see stuff about Borderline PD instead cuz people tend to mix the disorders up

I want to see more people talking about manic episodes and how terrible they are. Talk about how you have a complete lack of judgement, absolutely no social filter, because your thoughts are racing at 1000mph and pouring out of your mouth faster than you can process. Talk about the snappy irritability and the rage because everything is overwhelming, and you can't catch yourself. Talk about how you say really uncomfortable and unpleasant things, or get into arguments, or rant/ramble/overshare for hours. Talk about all the relationships it ruins. Talk about how you start projects, spend all your money on them, stay up all night planning for them, just to drop them the next day. Talk about how you never really know when you're manic until you crash, and how awful the clean up is. Talk about the dangers, the recklessness, the risks. Talk about the poosible psychosis. Talk about how nobody understands what your condition is like. Nobody understands how intense it is, how everyone waters it down, how you can't control it even if you wanted to. Talk about how theres not much of a cure for it at all.

And talk about the depression. How it's more severe than typical depressive episodes (not in a trauma Olympics way, but for perspective). Talk about the suicide rates, and the substance abuse. Talk about how isolating and suffocating it feels. Talk about how intense it is, like there's 500lb weights on your feet dragging you down. Talk about the strength it takes to get out of bed regardless. Talk about the rejection sensitivity, the hopelessness, the disappointment. How everything feels like confirmation that nothing is worth it. Talk about how your mind is always against you. Talk about how this feeling can last months with seemingly no end in sight.

Most importantly, talk about treatment, and how recovery and managing bipolar are completely possible. Talk about having hope, and being compassionate and understanding to the ugly sides of this disorder. Talk about ways to healthily cope. Talk about how we see each others efforts, and how amazing those efforts are. Talk about the ways you can live a full, happy life regardless, and that you deserve it regardless of any issues you might have faced/caused in the midst of your episodes. Talk about forgiving yourself.

Talk more about bipolar disorder

[psychotic-tbh]

Things I’ve Learned as a Disabled Person

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You did not commit a crime simply by being mentally ill or disabled!

You are not wasting anyone’s time or energy by simply existing as a mentally ill or disabled individual!

Please surround yourselves with love, support, and positivity whenever you find the opportunity!

You deserve compassion regardless of your symptoms or experiences!

You are not a monster or an abuser for being disabled or mentally ill!

You can and will find people who love and understand you, or at least try to understand to the best of their ability.

You can and will find people who support you, regardless of what that support looks like!

You do not have to need the same types of support as others. As long as you do what is best for you, that’s all that matters.

At the same time, it’s okay to need accommodations, no matter the type!

You can always work towards coexisting with others, and I hope that you will be surrounded by those who do the same for you!

You do not have to stretch yourself thin and overextend yourself to make others happy!

It’s okay to advocate for yourself! And, if you cannot do this because of your mental illness or disability, it’s okay to allow someone with your best interest in mind to advocate for you!

While you don’t need to force it (and it probably helps more not to force it), please hold onto the hope that things will not always be at their worst!

If it helps you and isn’t hurting anyone, it is nothing to be ashamed of!

Finding support is huge! It doesn’t have to be folks in your immediate area, online support is acceptable as well! What matters is that we are uplifting and supporting each other and ourselves.

There are so many things I’ve learned as a disabled person. I hope to learn many more

Please feel free to share what you’ve learned as well, or please share if you found any of this helpful! /not forced

[feelingsickagain]

every time i see a post with #bpd im like,,,man we really are all one in the same miserable creature aren't we?

[masqueraders-motes-and-boxes]

bipolar spectrum, (person is) on the bipolar spectrum, bipolar folder

bipolar 1, bipolar 2, cyclothymia

has bipolar 1/person with bipolar 1, has bipolar 2/person with bipolar 2, cyclothymic/person with cyclothymia

Mania(smiling),mania(angry/irritable),hypomania(smiling)

hypomania(angry/irritable),depression, mixed state

probably going to make manic/hypomanic/depressive/mixed episode specific symbols later, still need to figure out what to for the concept health episodes though.

[louisentheirbees]

just a girl and her mood disorder against the world

[madpunks]

feel free to leave a reply or reply in tags/reblogs, i know there are way more experiences than these 12 but i'm extremely curious because i have repeatedly been told that SSRIs are not good for bipolar people but I see that we get prescribed them all the time, anyway. please feel free to boost this, i want to hear from other bipolar folks.