#the depression is diagnosed

[thestralboy]

I can’t do it anymore, fr I‘m so tired

[squeakadeeks]

rotating my OC in my head wasnt enough. I had to bring him into the physical world too. four different times.

[regularsystemdeez]

Anyone else feeling horribly alienated from the rest of society or is it just me.

[heymacy]

IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

[mikeyrrevenge]

[mercifullymad]

i feel passionately about the need to enfold people experiencing (or diagnosed) with "just" depression or anxiety into the mad pride project. the more people who view themselves as mad, the better. much as the rhetorical move from "neurotypical" to "neuroconforming" emphasizes the artifice & social construction of "neurotypicality," so too will expanding identification as "mad" expose the sane/mad dichotomy as a false one.

it's true that (some) people with "just" depression and/or anxiety have an easier time navigating the psych system than people who have more stigmatized diagnoses. but this is not to say that they necessarily have an easy time — the carceral psych system is hostile to everyone subsumed by it, even the most "privileged" patients. we should of course critique & examine how our experiences are shaped by various intersections of privilege, but we cannot forget or ignore how someone with "just" a depression/anxiety diagnosis can still experience the full force of the carceral psych system brought down upon them (including but not limited to involuntary institutionalization, police intervention, & forced medication or other forced treatment).

we must encourage, if not insist, that those with the least-stigmatized diagnoses view their difficult experiences navigating the psych system as bound up with the liberation of people who have more stigmatized diagnoses &, often, a more violent experience of the psych system. we need more people to drop the "i have anxiety/depression but i'm not crazy" line and say loudly, "i have anxiety/depression & i am crazy. my access to just treatment is linked to the conditions of all other crazy people, who are my allies, peers, & friends. we are united in our cause & we all deserve a more liberating system of care."

[black-rose-writings]

My mom, after spending an extended weekend with my dad's old college classmates and their families: It's so weird that all of these very weird, intelligent and structured men who got their masters in engineering in the late 1980s have sons that are all autistic and daughters who all have mood disorders.

Me: Yeah, very weird. Why could that be?

[surrah698]

[walnutmistjamie]

Are you fucking dying or some shit?

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Please take kids seriously they are actually people. sentient intelligent beings believe it or not. they know when they’re being blatantly lied to.

They might not understand it, but they know when grownups are being shady.

They know.

Please stop acting like it’s inconsequential if you lie to them or ignore them or dismiss their thoughts and feelings. It’s not. It stays with them forever.

Please take kids seriously.

[hexjulia]

this might be one of those things that only work for me specifically, but lately I've found that when executive dysfunction suddenly makes it hard to do things (and I'm really not talking about a "self-discipline" type issue here. Sometimes I suddenly find it hard to initiate anything; we're talking "simply move into a more comfortable position while working because this posture is uncomfortable" or "shower within the hour because I feel gross" type things) I can overcome it by doing everything but very....very slowly. Really just slowing down every movement. I don't know why it works, but after a certain point it gets my brain unstuck and the doing machine moving.

Sometimes it takes an 20 minutes of moving through molasses but after a certain point things become easy again. I think it has to do with being overwhelmed by sensory things maybe? and the very slow movements allowing for that to subside. Anyway just sharing in case it helps anyone because this is really not something I was ever taught in therapy.

[neurodivergenttales]

Nobody talks about how exhausting it is to be numb to everything

To drag yourself through every day knowing that you’re not going to get any pleasure or enjoyment from anything you do

To feel blank towards everyone and everything

It’s a never-ending cycle of looking to everyone else like you’re alive but feeling completely rotted down inside

I just want to feel like a person again

[tryingtoorbitthesun]

me to my therapist: I think I might be autistic...

therapist: I think that's a bit drastic... I would say you are bipolar.

me:

[lo-andbehold]

Cane user Percy cane user Percy cane user Percy cane user-

(A cane hooks around my waist and drags me offstage)

[diddlesnap]

Autistic girls sound off jn the comments

[fella-lovin-fella]

the thing about mental disorders is after you're diagnosed with more than 2 people stop taking you seriously