#psych ward cw

[ultimatedetectivecoinz]

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 PICK YOUR POISON...︰☆

[pt: pick your poison... end pt.]

 ☀️ ៸៸ DESIRPSYCHWARD — WHEN ONE WISHES/WANTS/DESIRES TO BE IN A PSYCH WARD FOR ANY REASON. THIS TERM DOES NOT SUPPORT HARMFUL TRANSITIONING.

[pt: desirpsychward : when one wishes/wants/desires to be in a psych ward for any reason. this term does not support harmful transitioning. end pt.]

 ☀️ ៸៸ DESIRPERMAPSYCHWARD — WHEN ONE WISHES/WANTS/DESIRES TO PERMANENTLY BE IN A PSYCH WARD FOR ANY REASON. THIS TERM DOES NOT SUPPORT HARMFUL TRANSITIONING.

[pt: desirpermapsychward : when one wishes/wants/desires to permanently be in a psych ward for any reason. this term does not support harmful transitioning. end pt.]

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REQUESTED BY; NO-ONE. SELF INDULGENT.

TAGGING; @desirdae-archive

EXTRAS; MADE WITH THE INTENT OF "IN A PSYCH WARD TO HEAL. I PERSONALLY HAD A GOOD EXPERIENCE, BUT THIS ISN'T THE SAME FOR EVERYONE.

[mahoshonensuicidehotline]

Close ups under cut

[griefdestined]

Hi!!! I’ve returned 👋🏻 i was in the psych ward but I’m better now

[ofgentleresolve]

additional hcs regarding annie's backstory

cw for literary gore & mentions of abusive mental wards

so, when her co-worker/colleague was beheaded, not only was it a clean cut, but also the head landed in her lap. she still has nightmares about looking down at her lap and feeling the blood pour over her legs

one of the major reasons this hostage situation lasted for two weeks was due to incompetence on the politicians and the police's part. the law enforcement delayed in making the rescue despite having the numbers and the force necessary to overpower the kid*nappers.

outsiders would note that the police assigned to the case were simply lounging outside the barrier and not doing anything else.

the excuse given by the authorities was that they were 'waiting on orders' to which the politicians also said that it was a precarious situation and therefore required 'great delibration'

as the sole survivor amongst the victims, annie was stashed into a mental ward especially when it became apparent that she was severely traumatized; unfortunately, the director of the hospital was also in cohoots with the politicians responsible for incident and he was exploiting the patients....combined with being cared for by an incompetent staff ( which annie herself knows since she was studying to be a doctor to begin with ), annie was treated more like a prisoner there if anything

basically, they wanted her to disappear from society because she was a reminder of their failure over handling the situation

and as for her perpetuators? well, they're still in prison, but they're alive. and remorseless too 🙃

[shadowkat2000]

Vent about someone else’s mental health situation under readmore

So my situationship (soon to be graduating med school, which is relevant) has been in a psych ward since Sunday. I think had a psychotic break, he was getting anxious about his future and next steps etc the last few weeks even though his residency interviews have been going fabulously and he’s been planning second looks etc. Got some texts on the weekend about issues w/ his roommates bc of cultural differences, and potentially staying at mine for a few days. Then alarming texts late at night saying he was fine he wasn’t hurt etc. Sunday, texts that he was at the hospital, thinks his roommates set him up, has some physical injuries but is mostly shaken, and can I come cause he feels like they’re not listening to him (black man). He says a bit later nvm they’re listening now. Then got calls yesterday, checked later in the day, and was him leaving vm that he was in inpatient. Talked to him on the phone last night. The doc initially diagnosed him w schizophrenia and mania but he got him to roll it back cause he knows what he’s talking about (about to graduate med school) but he deffo sounded off. He thought he’d be getting out this morning. Missed a call this morning from him saying it’s an emergency, so pretty sure they’re not letting him out.

So I want to support him, but I also was considering breaking it off when we last saw each other! I think he’s more invested than I am in the relationship, though we both then talked about two weeks ago that this isn’t long term since we’re both leaving the city likely this summer, so we could keep having fun for the next few months etc. and now this is all happening! I should be a good friend and support him. But don’t want him to be dependent on me. And part of me is worried he may accidentally hurt me. Like realistically probably not but what if. I feel bad about thinking that. But I do.

Okay that’s the vent. Sighs.

[horygory]

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

[with-the-flickers-of-light]

did i just see a "you can't criticize ts for using psych ward imagery just bc she's never seen a therapist post" bc genuinely i am about to throw hands

and before anyone calls me crazy for that or stupid for not understanding metaphors, fear not, i know. FROM THAT TIME I WAS A "PSYCHO RETARD" IN THE PSYCH WARD.

like. i don't think she's somehow not allowed to talk about psych wards. but i definitely think the psych ward survivors are allowed to be angry about seeing it used like this -- insensitively, for a billionaire's profit and for an audience of millions?

"she's allowed to struggle" yeah she is. which is why she shouldn't have to co-opt another marginalized group's struggles. hope that helps.

[trans-poppy]

like, if my boss defeated me after my attempts to (mostly successfully) overthrow him, i dont think i wouldve suffered permanent brain damage to the point. i'd get taken to the psych ward, in a wheelchair with saliva drooling out of my mouth, like huh?????!

WAIT, THATS HOW TRANZA WAS DEFEATED??? SERIOUSLY???

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

warning: mentions/talk of sanism

psychotic system culture is being almost 99% positive we experience psychosis (and have a disorder on the schizospectrum!) but are absolutely scared to be public and open about it in any space (specifically plural spaces sometimes) as people can be so so so sanist about it :( also tacking on a seeking treatment in any capacity because we’re terrified that they’d see our sysmates as things to get rid of and or further proof that we are really really insane and deserve to be institutionalized for it

<-w->

[wisteriasymphony]

any more asylum au perhaps 👉👈😎

CW: Physical and Verbal Abuse, Arson

FALL 1993

Adrien was held still by two of his former bodyguards—Laurent and DuPont, if he remembered correctly. Laurent always had his blonde hair shaved to the skin, whereas DuPont's was thickly braided. Such distinctions weren't helpful at the moment, of course. Any two of Gabriel's men would be restraining him the same. It's what they were always paid to do.

"Sixteen—Almost seventeen years' worth of work. Seventeen years!" Gabriel shouted, his gargoylish face contorted into a thousand graying wrinkles. "Do you know how much I sacrificed for you? Do you know the hours, the months of work I have slaved to put you where you are. —And this is what you choose to do with your life?! Getting high and fucking whoever you find sitting on the street corner?"

Adrien opened his mouth to protest—more just for protest's sake than because he had anything on his mind to speak—only for Gabriel to backhand him so hard the sound could surely be heard from outside. Even as Adrien staggered, he was forced upright by the guards, kept in a jawlike grip by his forearms, held just low enough that he couldn't stand, only bend at the knees to get even a semblance of bearing.

"Well I'm through with it," Gabriel spat. "I am through with your delinquency. I don't care where the hell they send you—" Gabriel extended a gnarled, pale finger to point at his son. "—But I will ensure you spend the rest of your life thinking about what you have cost me with this stunt of yours. And when I can finally drag you back out, you should be nothing but thankful that I had the mercy to not kill you, and her, where you fucking stand."

It was supposed to be so easy. It was supposed to be so easy. Adrien knew how to bypass the limits on his cards, Adrien knew every place in the manor to hide from the security cameras. He had bought plane tickets, stolen his passport, and had just enough money hidden in his mattress to not have to worry for two months out of the city, maybe more. It was supposed to be so easy, he was supposed to finally be safe.

Adrien hadn't a single desire to ever see Gabriel's face ever again. Now, confronted with it—varicose and gaunt and furious—what was there for him to do? What option did he have left?

...The option he took had left him at the doorstep of Hospital Sainte-Marie-de-Dieu with a plastic muzzle over his face.

SPRING 1995

Adrien looked up at the billboard, the acrid smell of burning vinyl filling his nose. If there was anything he was still good at in life, now that following orders (and later, drinking) were both entirely off the table, it was his penchant to set stuff on fire. Even when he still had some semblance of good left in him, Adrien remembered taking a large magnifying glass out into the garden to fry holes in blades of grass. This was basically the same thing, minus the gasoline and matches.

It was maybe two miles ago that he'd found a pair of glasses, their cracked lenses tugging a ray from the headlights of the stolen car and getting Adrien to stop. That was probably the benefit of these gone-to-shit roads in the middle of nowhere: Being able to just stop and see what people had left. Adrien had put on the glasses for the time being, but was just as willing to throw them away once he tired of them. They weren't worth much, anyways. The frame was warped and barely sat on his face right.

The fire had eaten up nearly half of the billboard by this point, and it was just starting to melt Adrien's face off—the one on the vinyl, that is. He remembered posing for it a few years ago, selling some perfume that was basically the same goddamn thing in yet another glass bottle. It was nice to see the thing go up in smoke.

Marinette stood a few feet away, the orange glow of the fire throwing itself at her face. She didn't talk much, to the point where Adrien assumed she was likely mute. Her big brown eyes did enough of the talking for her—a look for "You're stupid", another for "Stop driving so fast". As weird as it felt to say for someone so much shorter and quieter than him, somewhere he held respect for her muteness. Maybe envy, too. A jealous respect.

...There wasn't much more to see from the fire. Only scraps of nauseous-smelling vinyl floating down like leaves of hell, glossy embers of tar-black only coming into view here or there when something other than the dark sky was behind them. Most small enough to maybe inhale. Adrien reached in through the broken window of the car to open the driver-side door again. "Come on." Marinette's shadow made its way to the car, stretched long by the light of the burning billboard.

(I started this Aug 31st what the fuckkkkk why'd it TAKE so long)

[tiredsn0w]

I'm still thinking about a video I watched recently. Its creator said it would touch on anti-psychiatry, and I was looking forward to that.

I only realised it was supposed to be a 'content warning' after they had already said something along the lines of "psych wards are good, medication is good, you SHOULD take medication, and the goal of medication isn't to change your personality".

Classic example of schizospecs being excluded from mental health subjects, because maybe that's true for antidepressants and such, but antipsychotics? They can certainly help people, and be used as a coping tool, but they were invented as a chemical lobotomy. Physical lobotomies were practiced to turn schizophrenics into "pleasant house pets" (actual terminology used) and chemical ones, in my experience, aren't very different.

Also, while antipsychotics can be helpful sometimes, being prescribed them at a young age (11 or 12, for me) can permanently alter your brain's chemistry and cause you to have worse symptoms. These risks are rarely, if ever, explained to patients- I even had a psychotic friend be prescribed antipsychotics when she went in for sleeping medication, with zero explanation of what the medication was even for from the psychiatrist-- and universally pushing the idea of "meds good" is just untrue.

TL;DR: Psychiatry/mental health isn't just about anxiety and depression, please don't talk about it like it is.

[0th3rw0rldl1n3ss]

this is the what having introjects feels like

[boatcats]

Been looking through the Fireweed Collective resources for working with people in crisis/working through crisis one's self. Honestly lots to think about. Abolition includes the mental health industrial complex as it currently exists.

[luxdraconia]

and adults get to do whatever they want to. keep this up and i’ll doxx you and send you to a psych ward :)

hi anon! What you're threatening here is illegal.

47 U.S.C. § 223 (link) prohibits the sending of harassing or threatening messages across state lines.

18 U.S.C. § 2261A (link) prohibits the usage of the internet to severely stalk or harass someone.

Please, for the love of everything ever, please read the US code (link) and come back to us when you have some sense. :3

[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)

[forget-meabh-not]

hi sorry if this is the wrong place to ask

what does "forced recovery" mean in regards to wishqueer? isn't it usually a good thing for people who don't recognize they need help? /genq

so ok what we mean by “Forced recovery” is forcing someone to recover when they do not want to / are not ready and Forcing the idea of recovery on to those who don’t want to recover. A lot of “recovery” is just forcing people on meds they don’t want to take or forcing people in psych wards. That’s not healthy for anyone. A lot of times some people won’t ever be able to “recover” and trying to push it on them can cause a lot of distress and hurt them!!!

And while we understand that others may have the best intentions when trying to push someone into recovery you should try and slowly help them. Not just shove them into therapy or a psych ward. That does so much more harm than good.

^ any of our followers who see this feel free to try and explain the dangers of forced recovery better than we do since we are very bad at this sort of thing !!