#psych language

[th1rdt3chnician]

who up hating pop psychology

[dawnbreakersgaze]

Guys I was playing the event stories again one last time before they went away forever and I just noticed the sweetest fucking thing ever

When you first walk up to Zayne and catch him on his phone, look at his face. He goes from his normal neutral expression to the softest little smile when he realizes it's you/mc walking up to him 🥺🥺🥺

He even straightens himself up a little taller when he sees you i'm dying send help 😩

I'm gonna squish him 🥲

[neuroticboyfriend]

i know us schizos can be relatively lax about the word schizo... but for people who aren't on the schizophrenia spectrum, please remember... it is a slur, or at the very least, a derogatory term. maybe don't say it (unless we're okay with you calling us it), especially not to separate yourselves from us.

context: i just saw someone say "i'm not a fucking schizo" when talking about their misdiagnosis and resulting trauma. this could have been done without using a slur, especially given how much we also face misdiagnosis and medical/psychiatric trauma. we're in this together, not apart.

[arrowheadedbitch]

What if I just headcanon that Shawn knows every single language but Spanish, what then?

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Infestissumam • Per Aspera Ad Inferi • Secular Haze • Jigolo Har Megiddo • Ghuleh / Zombie Queen • Year Zero • Body And Blood • Idolatrine • Depth Of Satan's Eyes • Monstrance Clock • La Mantra Mori • I'm A Marionette

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[the-firefly-jar-system]

“grippy sock jail/vacation”, “i’m so ocd!”, “my ex was such a narcissist/psychopath/sociopath”, “delulu!”, “is it acoustic?”, “being silly goofy manic”, “lobotomycore”, “you’re giving me ptsd!”, “i’m such a psycho lol”, “me and my split personality!”, “that’s so cr*ppled”, “you’re so bipolar”, “how’s that extra chromosome?”, “barcode/cutting board/wrist check!”

shut the fuck up. like actually shut it.

[pt: shut the fuck up. like actually shut it. /end pt]

(specifically referring to people who don’t have the disorders/experiences they’re joking about)

[shitcomscriptwriter]

Growing up in and out of psychiatric hospitals and offices really ruins your sense of self.

There was very little I could hide. Every bit of me was picked apart and scrutinised, used as a teaching tool for eager students with no regard for my own feelings or opinions.

I have very few genuine emotions now, because of how many realities were constructed for me and how they presented me like I was their newest accomplishment. No part of my brain was my own.

I am a psychological cyborg.

It feels like they took my humanity and all natural reactions, but I know they didn’t. There is still a human in here, and she is screaming.

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

Shawn just goes absolutely off the rails in the s7 opener after Henry’s been shot and I wanna talk about it!! It’s so interesting because we really genuinely haven’t seen him like this before - even Jules says as much — “I’ve never seen you like this! … you’re acting impulsively in a very dangerous way, you don’t see this behavior is erratic?!” — and it made me think

Of course we haven’t seen Shawn like this— this is the Worst Thing* that’s ever happened to him and he can’t deal! But you know who has seen him like this before?? Henry. Because the last Worst Thing* that ever happened to Shawn was the Divorce, and baby 18 year old Shawn…. Goes absolutely off the rails. Shawn remembers absolutely nothing of his senior year and apparently Gus has zero idea how bad Shawn has gotten at this time (I wanted to link @incomingalbatross here bc we had a whole post conversation on this last night but apparently you can’t hyperlink on the app??? This is why I once more must say I miss my laptop) — so we know he’s just spiraling. A lot here is inferencing but I think it’s a safe guess to say Shawn wants revenge— he wants to hurt his father the way he feels hurt, and he finally pushes his father to the edge and gets himself arrested and ends the Cop Dream. It’s reckless and self-destructive, but he succeeds in hurting his father and himself and apparently alienates himself from… pretty much everyone (I think we can safely presume Gus included).

And now in s7, a Bad Thing happens again and Shawn can’t deal, again. He is going on a reckless, destructive, revenge rampage. But the difference this time is he has a support network. He has people who love him. Gus is with him most of the way, he never actually takes the Out. Lassiter helps Shawn out and is even empathetic. And when Shawn DOES end up alone, facing down another barrel of a gun, when it seems like he’s blown it again— Jules saves him.

Jules saves him. i cannot stress how much I love this. I’ve been thinking about it all day. She saves him!! She loves him!!! And she’s been worried all episode and SHE SHOWS UP AND SAVES HIM.

He doesn’t have to be alone in this one. And then one step more— this time he does get to go home to his dad. What’s more!!! — it’s not JUST that he gets to go home to his dad— it’s that Henry’s grown too!! He is so furious by the time of the arrest— he’s worried about Shawn’s future and what kind of stuff he’s getting into! But instead of saying any of that out loud— he arrests him and tries to teach him a lesson. At the end, in the hospital too Henry starts in on criticizing— you’re an idiot, it was stupid to go after them— but STOPS— and says what he really means— “I’m glad you’re ok” — because that’s what he means!! He’s been worried!!

*I don’t think any of the serial killer episodes are the Worst Moment of Shawn’s Life because he Wins. No one he loves gets hurt. Here, he doesn’t win. He’s too late. Henry’s shot and almost dies.

[aengelren]

He served cunt in these covers

[criminalgays]

i think kristen is incredibly used to doing things for people. not necessarily grand gestures, nothing like “oh i bought you xyz expensive thing” or anything like that.

i think it’s small things, like picking up their rooms while they’re out so they don’t have to worry about it when they get home, or changing their laundry and bringing the finished load to their room. i think it’s cleaning up after Lydia cooks dinner so the rest of the mordred crew can hang out.

i think it’s things that she was expected to do for her brothers and generally around the house, but now that she’s not required to, it’s how she shows that she loves and appreciates each person.

she knows fig will leave her laundry until the last possible second, and it’s only five minutes to change the load and fold the clothes that are coming out of the dryer. adaine’s room is constantly a disaster, and kristen notices when it gets bad enough to affect her mentally, so she’ll pick it up a bit to help out, because she loves them.

she never expects anything in exchange either. she does it because she loves the family she made at mordred manor, and she shows that love through small gestures.

[ssruis]

Please elaborate on the "nene teaches tsukasa to sing in a way that doesn’t make me angry" because as much as I like Nene the way she teacher people to sing does indeed make me a little angry (that's on sega not on her probably-)

OHH I meant that I hate tsukasa’s singing voice and nene needs to help him before I start a petition to have colopale release daisuke hirose from the shackles of singing with a character voice. I’m not a singer & most of my knowledge of music/singing on the technical level comes from osmosis of knowledge from my sister who studied comp/vocal performance for years and at a higher level. And that essentially amounts to something something diaphragm sing from the stomach (? Or is it chest) round your vowels natural talent can only get you so far if you don’t refine it the voice is an instrument. Dont drink dairy. Etc.

I can’t really critique nene’s teaching methods (also don’t remember them well enough. Iirc rui does say nene’s teaching helped emu improve though) although I’m sure anything before canary can be explained by her not knowing what she was doing and being self taught. And she probably still doesn’t know what she’s doing which I expect nene5 to go into with the opera group they’re visiting.

[brown-little-robin]

あ

[starfilled-galaxy]

You know, I’m lucky. I live in a (mostly) accepting area with accepting people, and as a chronically online lil bitch I get to exist in an online space with accepting people

Sometimes I forget there are people who view me as inherently sexual, preverted, and a pedophile due to my gayness

There are people who view me as a sex traitor, a societal traitor, and a confused victim of “TRAs” due my transness

There are people who view me as an abuser, a villain, a horrible person, and just inherently all around bad due to my (trans)masculinity

There are people who view me as broken, confused (again), a victim (again), a pedophile (…again), and wholeheartedly believe my identity is a phase and I will “grow out of it” due to my asexuality

There are people who view me as a [r slur], lazy, incompetent, dumbass, moron, a leech, or a waste due to my disabilites

There are people who view me as a freak, weirdo, gross, odd, childish, or a [r slur] (again) due to my autism and alterhumanity

There are people who view me as crazy, insane, dangerous, someone who needs to be contained, and other ableist insults due to my plurality

I am in so many minorities and I like to take pride in it but sometimes I forget the side effect if being in these minorities is the pure bigotry. Contradictory bigotry, even, which makes it worse because I’m being attacked on all sides

To them, I’m a grooming victim and a groomer. Inherently preverted and too stupid to know anything about sex. Dangerous and harmless. I’m not human but the moment I say “you’re correct, I’m alterhuman” they turn around and say I’m a confused human and weirdo. I’m a freak

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Spirit • From The Pinnacle To The Pit • Cirice • Spöksonat • He Is • Mummy Dust • Majesty • Devil Church • Absolution • Deus in Absentia

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[love-in-my-twenties]

By 'love', I don't mean romances I may come across in my twenties. By love, I mean life.

I'm Cas and I study psychology. I'm also a songwriter, but while I would easily call it my greatest passion, I don't really post about it here. On this blog, I mostly share not-so-daily updates about my student life - productivity, learning progress, but also stuff like movies I recently watched. Sometimes I just talk about my uni in general, in a more diary-like manner, or about things not related to studying at all, mostly connected with recovering from depression.

Studyblr, moodboards, daily life, quotes, healing and wellness. More or less. Enjoy!

[trans-axolotl]

hi so ive been reading a lot of your mad liberation stuff (i think thats the term i cant actually remember atm) and im having trouble understanding some of it so i want to like ask this for clarification

is it like. not quite antirecovery but that "recovery" shouldnt be the default? like mad ppl should be able to live as is, and if they want to seek recovery they can but shouldnt be looked down on for not doing that?

or that like. "recovery" doesnt look like psychiatric definitions?

sorry i dont know if im phrasing things right im pretty dissociated lol

ty for your time tho!

hi anon!

I'm always happy to answer clarification questions. I know when I was first learning about antipsych stuff, there were so many terms and concepts that were new to me, and I'm always still learning more.

A lot of what you've said is stuff I agree with! When I'm thinking about the concept of recovery, it feels important to me to really analyze what people really mean when they say "recovery" in the current psych system. I might ask questions like:

Who gets to define recovery? Is the mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent person supported in setting their own priorities and goals, or is the only thing prioritized the mental health professional's ideas about wellness?

How do ableist concepts of normality and conformity contribute to our ideas about recovery? What ways might recovery frameworks get in the way of radical acceptance of mad/MI/ND people's traits? How do ideas of recovery contribute to stigma and violence against mad/MI/ND people?

What ways does the psych system enforce recovery, even at the cost of bodily autonomy and freedom? What ways does psych treatment use violence to enforce recovery?

Within the current psych system, I think that "recovery" is not a neutral concept, and I think it's one that contributes to a lot of fucked up patterns within the psych system. There's so many ableist and sanist ideas that label mad/MI/ND people just existing as a threat, and force cure on us instead of building a society that embraces madness/MI/ND. The language about being a "danger to yourself and others" reveals the ways that mad/MI/ND people are often labeled as inherently unsafe if we're existing in public, if we have nonconforming behaviors, if we talk to ourselves in public, if we stim, etc. There's this pattern set up within the psych system where unless we're actively compliant with treatment, unless we're institutionalized, unless we're taking our meds and going to therapy and doing every little thing the psych system asks us to, we're labeled as dangerous and unstable.

In a system where "treatment" is often violent, coercive, and oppressive, I think that the way recovery is defined is a really harmful framework. Recovery in the psych system is more about compliance then it is about actually listening to our needs. It treats mad/MI/ND people as unworthy unless we're doing every single thing that the psych system wants us to. And I think that mindset is super damaging to mad/MI/ND people. It makes us feel like we're not deserving of support, care, accommodations, and community unless we're willing to give up our autonomy, conform to ableist ideals about "normal" behavior, and give up so much of ourselves. I'm much more interested in separating morality from our ideas of health and wellness, meeting people where they're at, and embracing the idea that it is totally fine to exist openly and fully as a mad person. We do not have to change ourselves in ways we don't want to. My mad community is always going to be one that embraces + prioritizes people who have no interest in recovery, who want and need to keep using behaviors labeled as dangerous, odd, and crazy, who don't comply with treatment and who demand the right to exist anyway.

I think that as mad/MI/ND people, we should have the room to define healing/coping/resistance/resilience/care in a way that is affirming and supportive for us, instead of just being restricted to "recovery." Our distress, pain, and hurt is very real, and we deserve support, skills, resources to help us navigate that in a way where we aren't shamed and aren't forced into coercive treatment. We should be able to set our own goals and priorities about what actually feels important for us in making our lives better/more tolerable. I'm not super interested in telling mad/MI/ND people to stop using the term recovery because I think for a lot of people it's a familiar shorthand to sort of describe a lot of different ways of healing. But I think it really is worth critiquing the concept, doing self inquiry about what it actually means to us, and analyzing the ways we use recovery in our communities and who that might exclude.

Personally, I don't like to use recovery language around a lot of my own madness, because it's important to me to be able to validate and affirm the ways I exist as a crazy person in the world. I think of my bipolar & psychosis as fundamental ways that I engage with the world, and I'm really glad that those are the ways I experience my life. I don't think of my bipolar and psychosis as a transient state that I will "recover" from and wake up one day and have all that taken away from me. I find a lot of value and meaning in my psychosis and my mood cycles, and I think I would lose a lot if I no longer experienced them. At the same time, there are ways that my psychosis and bipolar have changed the way my bad days look, ways that my self harm has really caused me a lot of distress and was really debilitating, and ways that my relationship with suicide is incredibly, incredibly difficult. I've been able to find support, healing, and care from places outside the psych system in a way that feels more meaningful for me than the psychiatric systems definition of recovery. Every time I go into the mental health system and try to express that I don't want to stop having hallucinations, that I want to use harm reduction for my self harm, and that I don't want to go on meds, I am labeled as noncompliant, antirecovery, dangerous, and incapable of living outside of institutions. This is despite the fact that I have worked really hard in building up a support system, access tons of resources, have found a bunch of coping strategies that work for me, and have built a life that accommodates my madness.

So to answer your question, I am against the ideas the recovery should be the default and I am really critical of the way the psych system uses recovery as a foundation for coercive treatment, but I fully support mad/MI/ND people's right to find healing, support, resistance, care, coping skills, resources in whatever way makes sense to them and fits with their needs and autonomy.

Summary: The current concept of recovery in our mental health system is based on ableist ideas about normality and labels mad/MI/ND as dangerous for just existing as mad people. Coercive treatment like psych wards tries to force ideas about recovery onto all mad/MI/ND people, and makes us feel like we are unworthy if we aren't doing everything we can to be compliant. Mad/MI/ND people have the right to define what healing/coping/resistance/care means to them, and if that means rejecting ideas of recovery, treatment, and conformity, our autonomy should be respected.

Feel free to ask any other questions!