#symptom management

[unwelcome-ozian]

[meme-loving-stuck]

I hate to break this to yall but saying you're having a symptom doesn't erase the action you are doing, or its effect on others.

If you look at someone's text and don't answer, you've ignored that text. Yes, even if you have ADHD! Even if you're really easily distracted. Even if you "have no object permanence".

If you're doing something that even tangentially involves other people, it is going to affect those people. You need to acknowledge that. You can offer explanations (and yes! Before you say it! You do not have to explain, because You Dont Owe Anyone Anything, you're absolutely right. Im saying you can) but that doesn't un-do the thing you did.

Here's an example: If you are so understimulated that you're just kind of idly stamping your feet and slamming doors because You Need Noise To Feel Grounded, that's totally understandable. But if your downstairs neighbor says, "Hey can you stop slamming shit? You're right above me, I work nights, and I need to sleep"

And you say, "Oh, Im not just slamming shit for no reason! Im actually kinda having an episode because Im under-stimulated"... that does not un-do the door slamming or the fact that you woke up your neighbor! If you can't find a compromise and continue to do that, your neighbor is absolutely allowed to be upset with you. Because it affects them, too.

You still did the thing. Regardless of your symptoms, your stims, whatever. It's reasonable to ask people to accommodate you! And people should. But the fact is: Your symptoms do not ERASE the effects of your actions.

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Another thing to add: OP got told to take meds.

Firstly: we no longer live in the 50s and sedate every "eccentric" not rich enough to hire security.

Secondly: It's not always an option. The more meds someone is on, the more risk of interactions you get, and the higher the risk that one cancels another out, or worse, amps it up to some unknown degree. The more meds someone is on, the more stress that patient tends to be under about managing them correctly. And, as mentioned before, your body might just straight up not respond to them.

I've tried some double digit of anti anxiety meds. Most don't do anything for my anxiety. Almost all of them give me debilitating side effects. The only one that my doctors found workable "if I was willing to live with it" gives me vivid nightmares of being brutally murdered any time I sleep longer than thirty minutes.

Therapy is less exhausting.

Wearing a funny hat or a quirky print dress to make the feeling that people are staring make sense is less exhausting.

Asking people "Hey, my brain is being a dick to me and I'm struggling to argue on my own, can you just tell me if you hate me and want to see me fail spectacularly in every area of life?" is less exhausting.

You don't get to reject the most tenable solution to someone else's problem, just because it's not as elegant as you'd like.

I love seeing those posts where people are like “if you have headmates or whatever you should be on meds because that’s not okay” posts. Like neurotypicals just think that there’s some magical pill out there that will ‘cure’ anything they don’t consider ‘normal.’ Meanwhile, in the land of reality, my shrink thinks it’s pretty healthy that I’m finally getting to know my headmates, and has no intention of putting me on magic pills, because as long as I’m not hurting myself or anyone else, who cares what neurotypicals think is ‘normal?’ Actually, let’s be real: who cares what neurotypicals think at all?

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[i-looove-dillydallying]

I think this applies to humans too; if you’re, for example, too depressed to brush your teeth long and often enough, just do it the way you CAN manage - a dim light is better than utter darkness.

Do the work you’re able to, and never more. Push yourself, but don’t destroy parts of yourself that will eventually result in catastrophic failure. Do what you can, don’t what you can’t, and let your batteries charge in the meantime, until you have the energy to replace the rest yourself.

Allow yourself to shine without burning out.

[internutter]

Challenge #04410-L026: Palliative Care

The human was sick and running a high fever. The Alliance had never dealt with a very sick human like this before. -- Anon Guest

If you want to survive the Edge Territories, you need a friendly Human. Unfortunately, Deathworlders are largely forbidden from the Alliance and finding a Human is a trial. Some find Humans before they were lost. Which resulted in the ever-growing manual of Human care and maintenance.

It also resulted in a lot of posts starting with the word 'help'. Often with multiple exclamation points.

Rescue Humans had psychological issues, but this case was one for the health section. The Spouting Quest had just one Ship's Human, who claimed they "picked up a bug" before a slow collapse into an alarming state.

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