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what if people chilled out about people having visions, hearing voices, having different beliefs. like as a society. the main factor in if these types of things are a negative experience for people is their society's perception of them. people where visions and voices and extreme states are showed as scary and bad and dangerous and always needing to be changed have scary or negative visions and voices and things like that. in places where these things are seen as normal and ok or even good people have positive and neutral experiences. ofc there are acceptions yadda yadda but the majority. i think partly people who have positive experiences with voices, visions, etc. do not mention these out of fear of being forced into "treatment" because of "low insight" (if a person has a positive experience with abnormal experiences they will almost always be labeled as having "low insight", as not knowing themself, their world, what they actually want, what is actually good for them). "low insight" is the main thing that will get you sectioned, if you are unwilling to agree with doctors interpretations or goal you will be forced to.
#tw forced recovery#tw forced treatment#tw psych abuse#tw mental hospital#very purposely avoiding words like hallucination delusion psychosis psychotic features mania etc.
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The worst thing is that there is so much potential for exploring the horror of psych wards from the angle of medical abuse, ableism, forced treatment/drugging, loss of autonomy, power imbalance, demonization, dehumanization, etc, and YET the horror genre keeps defaulting to "insane asylums and psych wards are scary because there are mentally ill people in there"
#disability#kat gets serious#psych ward tw#psychiatric abuse tw#ableism tw#medical abuse tw#forced treatment tw
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I'm sorry, but I just don't think jokes about lobotomies are funny. I don't think the deliberate physical destruction of millions of mentally ill and mentally disabled people's brains, often without consent, frequently just to make them easier to manhandle, is a laughing matter. I think it's a humanitarian tragedy
#auschizm original#auschizm#lobotomy tw#medical abuse tw#psychiatric abuse tw#forced treatment tw#surgery tw#hospital tw#politics tw#ableism tw
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If it's okay with you, could you write a drabble about the hypothetical aftermath of Amane getting attacked by Kotoko?
Welp thank you pal for making me absolutely insane with this request đ I ran through a few hypotheticals and realized I had to shift some things around since there were so many absolutely tragic outcomes. I worked something out but damn if it didnât make me emotional to think about how uniquely rough Amane has it. Even making sure she's in a good place at the end, this got pretty serious, so warnings for child abuse and cult references.Â
(So in canon, Kotoko goes in order and attacks Fuuta, but Kazui steps in. Then she attacks Mahiru while heâs distracted with his injuries. Sheâs about to attack Amane, but Mikoto gets in the way (my hc that he did it on purpose survives!). By the time they reach a draw, Kazui is back, and the two of them can prevent Kotoko from any further action against Amane. Sticking to this apparent system of three attacks and one rescue, Iâm just shuffling around the injuries for this story. Fuutaâs attack went unnoticed, and heâs in the same state as canon Mahiru. Mikoto steps in before Kotoko can fight Mahiru, so Mappiâs the one who get out physically unscathed. While Mikoto checks on Mahiru, recovers himself, or discovers Fuuta, Kotoko is able to attack Amane next. Kazui comes to help, but not before she leaves Amane looking like canon Fuuta.)
Mahiru could practically feel her heart shatter into a million pieces when Amane finally cried in front of her. She hadnât shed a single tear yesterday â it was the shock, Shidou said. Mahiru was skeptical. After all, she had been shocked, too, and cried plenty.
Amane woke as she came in with breakfast. She took a moment to survey herself, bandages peeking out from beneath her pajamas and an eyepatch securely over her right eye. As calmly as one might say âgood morning,â she started to cry. Mahiru might have missed it, if Amane hadnât wiped at her good eye with her sleeve.
âOh, sweetheartâŚ!â Mahiru rushed over to her. ��Itâs okay, Iâm here.â She wanted nothing more than to wrap the girl in a secure embrace, but she remembered the mass of bandages that were around her chest. Shidou had mentioned broken ribs and bruises. It took everything in her not to cry along with Amane, at the thought.
âI can get you another ice pack, if you need. Or more medicine.â Her mind spun with ways to help with pain. Many of the first aid supplies had been used to keep Fuuta from the brink of death, but surely there were extras to spare for Amane.Â
The girl just shook her head.Â
She muttered, âI canât⌠IâŚIâm going to be punished, Iâm going to be punishedâŚâ
âNo! Youâre safe now.â Mahiru placed her hands gently on Amaneâs arms. âKotokoâs not coming back. Weâre all watching over you. Youâre safe. Sheâs not going to hurt you anymore.âÂ
âThatâs notâŚâ Amane pulled away. Her voice stayed level, despite hiccups interrupting her. A hand reached up to her eyepatch. âItâs this. Itâs all of this. Itâs sinful. I took it off last night, but he must haveâŚâ She started unwrapping it. âTheyâre going to punish me...âÂ
With a careful motion, Mahiru held it in place and took Amaneâs hands into her own. Sheâd been picking up on the signs ever since they arrived here together, and a final wave of understanding washed over her.Â
âI canât let you do that.â
Amaneâs expression twisted, though words came out far more frantic than fiery. âLet me go.âÂ
Mahiru didnât. âIâm sorry. Amane, you need this treatment.â
âThat is not your decision to make. That is not any humanâs decision to make.â
Mahiru pressed her lips together. âI know. But I canât watch as you⌠I canât sit by again while someoneâŚâ She was careful not to apply any pressure, but she could no longer fight the urge to gather Amane up in her arms. âYou donât need to be afraid of those people, anymore.â
âIâm not afraid.â Amane hiccuped. âThey love me, and I love them. I need to be good for them.â
âI love you, and I donât want to see you in pain.â
âYou just pity me because Iâm young.â
âWhy does your age matter? You are a lovely young woman â you are my friend â and I canât bear to see you in pain.â
The two sat in silence for a moment. Mahiru doubted she would take that as an answer; Amane had refused to call any of the others her friend. At least she didnât argue. In fact, it seemed she was leaning into the embrace a bit more. She sighed a shaky breath into Mahiruâs uniform.
âListen, Amane. Can you do me a favor? Iâm trying to be a good girl, too. To make up for something awful, I need to make sure youâre alright. Can you help me? Can we be good together?â
A long pause followed. Amaneâs voice spoke up, ever so gently.
âI suppose I can consider it.â She added quickly, âfor the sake of your redemption. Of course.â
âOf course.â
#milgram#amane momose#mahiru shiina#thank you so much! i dont want to be bubbly on such a serious drabble but i want to give an enthusiastic thanks because this one really got#the gears turning!!#i started making plans as soon as i saw the ask and it took so long finding something that wouldnt result in straight up tragedy :(#if i kept to the initial timeline and said kazui didnt step in until amanes attack then both fuuta and mahiru would be close to death#and given there seems to limited supplies i think one of them would have died if shidou needed to treat three critical patients#so i moved people around to make sure everyone survived#which brought me to the main problem of amane self sabotaging her medical care#even minor injuries could have resulted in death if she got her way and removed bandages/refused treatment#but the mental strain of keeping the treatment would be just as bad as the physical pain -- shed be paranoid 24/7 of#divine punishment and repeating the mistakes that led her here.... it would hurt more to be forced like that#so i needed someone to be able to get through to her gently#but the only one who shes been able to trust just got the shit beat out of him and is in no position to talk!!!!#everyone else would just make her more upset or not know how to convince her the right way :(#still - i think mahiru could do it the best! with her own trauma from allowing loved ones to die in front of her i think shed be motivated#so. yeah.#i know amane is supposed to be talking in the plural pronoun now but i couldnt get it to work - lets just say that kicks in soon after this#tw cults#tw child abuse#drabbles
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CW: Forced medical whump, held down, hurt/comfort
Whumpee snapped awake to a hand on their forehead pinning them down. They heard someone mutter in the background âOkay... 3..2..1..â before searing pain broke through their body.Â
They cried and grabbed the wrist holding their head down, their mouth running without them, begging âStop- please stop, STOP IT-â
Someone shushed them softly, but it didnât stop. Whumpee gripped two of their fingers and tried to pry them off, -which did succeed in getting them to let go of their forehead, as they instead switched to holding whumpeeâs hand and letting them squeeze.
âYouâre okay, breathe, in and out. We almost got it.â Caretakerâs voice sounded clear, but far away.Â
~Got what?~Â Whumpee thought to themselves, unable to speak the words. They felt something get ripped from their body as they let out one last desperate scream. The pain quickly faded along with their consciousness as a single tear escaped down the side of their face. A hand quickly wiped it away and touched their cheek.
The last thing they heard was âWeâre not losing you today.â
#whump#whumpee#caretaker#whump prompt#medical whump#medical prompt#forced medical treatment#whump angst#whump recovery#wounded whumpee#hurt comfort#whump scenario#whump writing#whump drabble#caretaker drabble#tw medical#injury whump#injury prompt#critical whumpee
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thinking about Elon Musk and his Neuralink.. He says he can "solve autism and schizophrenia" with it (source below).
These feel like lobotomies of the 21st century. The Neuralink procedure had already killed 1500 animals. Some monkeys suffered psychological trauma.
I'd like to reiterate to those unaware â THERE IS NO CURE FOR AUTISM OR SCHIZOPHRENIA. LOBOTOMIES DO NOT WORK. IT IS TORTURE AND ABUSE. We cannot let Neuralink continue to be tested, or else disabled people WILL be the ones subjected to these "treatments".
#neuralink#elongated muskrat#fuck elon musk#tw â#ableism#lobotomies#torture#forced treatment#autism#schizophrenia#actually schizospec#schizospec#actually autistic#hoping this doesn't come across as fear mongering i am just scared
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I get why people are saying Shiv and Roman should be doing more for Kendall as his addiction escalates (and they definitely donât always deal with it respectfully or appropriatelyâShiv blasting his addiction on social media, Roman calling him a âjunkie,â etc.) but in their defense like. Shiv made a genuine effort to intervene and he wasnât receptive. You cannot make someone stop using if they arenât ready. That has to be a step that they take for themselves.
Shiv and Roman have been watching Logan deal with Kendallâs addiction for years, and the way that Logan approaches the issue is by making it clear that he thinks active addiction is unacceptable and Kendall needs to be sober, period. They know (because theyâve seen!) that trying to force Kendall into sobriety doesnât do anything except create a personal culture of secrecy, lies, and sneaking around that puts him (and any waiters who cross his path </3) in terrifying, life-threatening situations.
Itâs not that they donât care about Kendallâs addiction, itâs just that they know that the âsober or nothingâ approach doesnât work, and so (as of s4) theyâve stopped pushing sobriety, and theyâre trying to help him by just being there until he is able to get sober. Kendall talks about addiction openly with them. They know that heâs using. They know what heâs using. They know that he doesnât use intravenously. He feels safe talking to them about his use because they donât freak out or threaten him with institutionalization, and thatâs a huge step that could literally save his life.
And this isnât even really a theory because weâve seen this play out! When Kendall was on that bender and using untested meth at a complete strangerâs house, he called Roman to pick him up (and not Logan), because he knew that Roman would come get him no matter what, no questions asked. No yelling, no outbursts, no interrogation, no âafter this Iâm pink-slipping you out to the desertâ just âdrop a pin so I know youâre okay.â Feeling safe calling Roman for a ride could very well have saved his life. Having âsafe peopleâ who will be there for an addict until they can get sober is harm reduction
#oc#tw addiction#theyâve done studies on this#harm reduction is empirically proven effective! getting someone sober isnât the only way to help them!#having even just one or two safe people significantly mitigates the danger of addiction#for example since they know heâs H they know they can carry narcan in case of an emergency#if they were trying to force him into treatment he didnât want he wouldnât be comfortable telling them that at all
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Having demand avoidance in a medical setting is literally hell. Like, patient autonomy is already absolute ass. It's only made worse when doctors CONSISTENTLY tell you what to do and act like you HAVE to do it instead of consulting with you first like normal fucking people.
#also ââââmedical necessityââââ is NOT an excuse here.#ive been to plenty of doctors that thoroughly discuss a range/timeline of treatment and explain it IN DETAIL before saying âthats what i-#-recommendâ instead of just going âokay were gonna do this. im gonna explain the prep to you a mile a minute and if you have any follow up-#-questions im just gonna repeat part of my spiel with no clarification. and if i cant answer your questions too bad :)â#not to mention how many doctors just force you to do things that WILL NEVER WORK#like one therapist tried forcing me to do emdr when i was only IN HER TOWN for the summer and i had no internet access when i was at college#im pretty sure emdr takes several weeks to work and i did not have that kind of time available to me. i couldnt just drop out bc of ptsd.#also the number of times ive had to decline an ESI is stupid. I've already had 2! they didn't work! i had a bad reaction to the meds!#why am i being forced to do it again?#also back surgery. i cant do that because i am a white trash rural kid and our home (which we built ourselves) CANNOT be accessible enough#for spinal surgery recovery. but i went to the surgeon and he was like âthats valid! and also surgery literally wouldnt help you so idk why-#-they sent you here.â : l It's cool to be right all the time lol#its like. no wonder i developed medical demand avoidance after so much traumatizing and malpracticy bullshit in my life#demand avoidance#medical demand avoidance#chronic illness burnout#chronic illness#chronic pain#medical tw#ptsd#disability#medical neglect#medical trauma#vent#this might be too personal. if i do delete it ill have it rb'd on my boar-deer-whitetrashbutterfly blog first#idk i just havent really been able to find anyone else talking about this specific effect of being chronically ill/disabled.
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Florida Adult Trans Care Ban SB 254, June 3, 2023 interim update
(from www.floridaban.com)
INTERIM UPDATE, June 3, 2023:
Rainbow Progress Fund provides a firsthand account of the joint Boards of Medicine committee hearing on June 1, including false and eugenicist claims by Board member Patrick Hunter (a member of the anti-trans Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine and Catholic Medical Association) that transitioning "lowers IQ" of trans people.
The committee failed to advance any of the necessary informed consent forms, mandated by SB 254, that are needed by MDs and DOs before they can resume providing new prescriptions. This means that until these forms become available, MDs and DOs cannot prescribe their established trans patients any new change in dosage of their current medication, or add any new medication to their existing HRT regimen.
Simone Chriss of Southern Legal Counsel, a nonprofit currently bringing litigation against SB 254 and its adult care restrictions, explains the current effective policy and status of prescribing restrictions on MDs/DOs as of June 3, 2023:
âWhile no draft consent forms have been released yet, the Boards are expected to file an emergency rule soon that will provide clarification about continuation of care for patients while the informed consent forms are being developed. The Boardsâ discussions over the past two days indicated that, as weâd shared previously, physicians can continue prescribing to patients who provided informed consent and were first prescribed prior to May 17th. The emergency rule should provide guidance on whether and how new prescriptions and adjustments to medications can be prescribed prior to the adoption of informed consent forms. No emergency rule language has been posted yet on the Florida Administrative Register.â
Rainbow Progress Fund explains the unacceptable medical danger of the current situation for trans patients: "Those currently on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) will not be able to adjust their medication until the new consent forms are finalized. This delay poses potential risks to patients whose hormone levels may require immediate attention."
To be clear, even when these forms become available, this does not and will not change SB 254's statutory ban on NPs and APRNs prescribing gender-affirming care. As 80% of trans adults on HRT in Florida receive their prescriptions via an NP or APRN, the effects of SB 254 have permanently disrupted the established prescriptions and ongoing medical treatment of thousands of trans adults across the state. SB 254 continuously jeopardizes the trans community's health and must still be mitigated in its entirety.
No other state has ever imposed SB 254's novel and selective restrictions on NPs and APRNs, who have prescribing authority just as doctors and physicians can prescribe medication. NPs and APRNs in all other states - and in Florida until SB 254 was enacted this May - have always been able to prescribe all gender-affirming hormone therapy, including schedule III medications like testosterone. "NPs have the prescriptive authority to prescribe controlled substances in all fifty states." (Zhang & Patel, 2022) There has never been any reason for this unique new restriction on NPs alone, prohibiting gender-affirming prescriptions alone, other than Florida's intentional targeting of the ongoing medically necessary treatment of almost all trans adults in the state.
The committee concluded that their next meeting will occur in three weeks, on June 23 at an undetermined location or video call, to continue considering the required adult consent forms. This is completely unacceptable. The Boards must issue the mandated informed consent forms immediately in order to restore the ability of MDs and DOs to freely manage and prescribe any new or changed medically necessary treatment for their trans patients, even as this is itself utterly insufficient to mitigate the overwhelming danger to health and life caused by SB 254.
None of this is over until SB 254 is completely reversed.
We will continue to provide updates as we confirm any further policy actions by the Boards and their impacts on trans patients and our providers. The policy chart below will be updated to incorporate this information when it becomes available. Thank you to the trans community of Florida for closely monitoring this situation and assisting us, and to our allies here and abroad. The world will see that we are not alone and you are a part of making that happen. Your strength and unstoppable spirit in an unimaginable situation is what will ensure we survive. As long as Florida exists, Transgender Florida will be a fact. (Zinnia Jones, June 3, 2023)
Please support Florida's local gender clinics and their nurse practitioners as they work to survive this crisis and continue providing care to trans Floridians: https://spektrum.health/DONATE/
#Florida#transgender#SB 254#SB254#forced detransition#tw forced detransition#trans care ban#HRT#gender-affirming care#gender-affirming treatment#hormone therapy#Florida HRT crisis#Florida HRT ban#Florida adult trans care ban#Florida trans care ban#Florida SB 254#transphobia#eugenics#Florida Board of Medicine#Florida Boards of Medicine#Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathy#trans youth care ban#this is torture#trans genocide
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i hate posts like this, yes they can wait till you get tubed
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And to those who don't know, Paris Hilton was a victim of the Troubled Teen Industry in her late teens and spent literal years in horribly abusive institutions based on hard labor where the conditions LITERALLY killed people. So when she did her "lol I don't need to know what work is because I'm pretty" or whatever later on as a young adult, that was mainly because she wasn't ready to face that trauma publicly because she was literally forced to work her fucking ass off in the most literal physical sense of the word for years
#kat gets personal#2000s rant tw#abuse tw#troubled child industry tw#psychiatric abuse tw#institutionalization tw#forced treatment tw#death tw#trauma tw#troubled teen industry tw#child abuse tw
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Iâm confused about something. I donât mean to be mean, but I donât understand. How do doctors force people to take meds? Why would someone continue to take a med that they donât like the effects of? When a doctor starts me on a new med and it makes things worse, I stop taking it. Do doctors have some way to enforce that I put a pill into my mouth every day? How do they even know if I have? No doctor has ever tried to prove that I was or wasnât taking any med. I do inform them that I stopped taking the med that had bad side effects and they always seem to approve of that. Is that not how it usually works? I know doctors can be awful so Iâm definitely not saying that being forced to take a med isnât possible but is that common? Should I be worried about something bad happening from me telling a doctor that I stopped taking a med they gave me? I really hope this comes across as genuine curiosity!
Various ways doctors might force medication (in this context mainly antipsychotics) on people include:
Dismissing and invalidating your concerns/negative experience with the meds. ("If you don't think these meds are helping you're wrong/too sick to know what you need.")
Restricting treatment based on your refusal to take meds. ("If you don't agree to take these meds I won't continue treating you/I'll refuse to refer you to further treatment elsewhere.")
Threatening hospitalization. ("If you don't take these meds I'll be forced to hospitalize you.")
Making discharge conditional based on you taking the meds. ("I won't discharge you before you agree to take these meds.")
Physically forcing meds on you while inpatient. ("If you refuse to take these meds, we will forcibly inject them.")
Threatening further forced hospitalization if you stop taking the meds. ("If you stop taking these meds/don't show up for scheduled injections, I will forcibly hospitalize you again.")
Getting a court order mandating you to continue taking the meds as part of your parole.
Not all doctors use these strategies, but it does happen to a concerning amount of psychosis spec people.
#auschizm convos#forced medication tw#forced hospitalization tw#forced treatment tw#hospitalization tw#medical abuse tw#psychiatric abuse tw#psych ward tw
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hi, i wanted to ask if possible (I'm sorry if this is a little invasive!) but what treatment program did you go to? I'm looking for some and I'm receiving mixed singles right now..
hey! I'm comfortable talking about it. I'm assuming you're talking about the eating disorder treatment program I went to, not the other psych wards I've been to, but let me know if you meant something else.
I went to the Eating Recovery Center in Washington. i have a lot of mixed feelings on it. i really hate the entire structure of residential treatment and think that it is inherently carceral and coercive. ERCWA was a really restrictive treatment program, we were on a locked ward in a medical center, there were a lot of shitty + abusive staff, and there was just so much bullshit the entire time, like having no privacy in the bathroom, no doors on the bedrooms, barely being able to go outside, having so much of what we said and did monitored, the fucked up ways they used NG tubes, a really ableist psychiatrist, etc. treatment was pretty standard CBT, DBT, ACT, RODBT, random "skills groups" that felt like a waste of time with a lot of therapists and interns who had no previous therapy experience. I got medically stabilized through that program and was able to achieve pretty sustainable changes in my disorderly eating, but i really credit that more to the peer support then to any of the actual "treatment."
But compared to some other programs i don't think it was the worst. You can have your phone all day which was a huge benefit to me, since most programs take your phone. while i was there they had a dietitian who accommodated custom ARFID menus--she doesn't work there anymore, but they probably still do ARFID menus. they had multiple trans staff members and let me stay on hormones. they also don't kick you out for self harming and can handle a higher level of medical complications. ERCWA is run slightly different then some of the other ERC locations though, and I've heard a lot worse stories about other ERC locations. this info is all only true for adult wards as well--i would not recommend ERC for teens. i don't really know if i would recommend ERCWA at all to people but i think there is some things that made it more tolerable then some other treatment centers, and that if you have some specific needs, it might be one of the only treatment centers that can accommodate some things.
sorry, i feel like this isn't a super helpful answer, but i just have so much anger towards residential treatment and have a hard time recommending any places, even though i don't think ERCWA is the worst option.
if you have any more questions I'm happy to answer--i can also post old photos and videos that show my room, schedule, etc. i also have a lot of friends at a variety of different treatment centers and can answer questions about some other centers if you have any.
sending you the best of luck anon, I hope you're able to find the support and care that you need <3
#asks#eating disorder tw#residential treatment#also if the other mutuals who have been to ercwa want to add on feel free.#ik we all had different experiences there. i feel like the general consenus was like âyeah it sucks. some other places suck worseâ#i wish so deeply there were more alternatives so that we weren't forced into a place where res is our only option#but always happy to try to help people navigate like. which options are the least shitty. what the pros and cons are. what the specific inf
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Update on sick kitty Cato. Below the cut cause I know some folks are sensitive to sick or potentially terminally ill pets.
So if you remember, Cato had been losing a lot of weight, despite being super hungry, eating a ton, and his energy was low; potentially cancer due to his older age and breed, but dragging him in for a bunch of tests would have put a TON of stress on him, so we decided to just try to treat since the options were the same. He did fairly well on the steroid, gained some weight back and had a lot more energy.
Then we tried lowering the steroid to the maintenance dose of every other day - this would be safer long term. However, heâs been dropping weight again, and been really sleepy, not eating as much. I chose to bring his dose back up to once a day, and while heâs not losing anymore, heâs back at ânot gaining, not losingâ instead of just gaining like before. I talked to the vet today and she said if it is cancer, bringing the dose down may have allowed it to grow a little, so the steroid might need to come up further. But just in case itâs one of the other issues, weâre gonna add another med in - and if that + the steroid once a day bring his weight up we just keep doing that. If it doesnât work, weâll take him up to two doses of the steroid every day plus the new med.
This isnât great long term. The steroid will be hard on his pancreas, and could cause issues if this goes on for a while. But itâs sort of become clear this is likely palliative care. I could drag him in for a ton of tests, shots, exams, scans, etc., but heâs never done well with the vet, and now with him so sick and being fourteen years old, it would put his body under so much stress that it might make things worse. So weâve agreed to focus on quality of life. I get him to take as much of his meds as I can, and then just... wait. Heâs still happy. And thatâs all that matters.
#tw: sick pets#tw: sick pet#cats#i'm struggling so hard to find a balance#because part of me desperately wants to take him into the vet and just run every test they can and try every treatment#but the other part of me knows he'd be absolutely miserable#and he'd have to go in repeatedly over and over for treatments and tests#so i'm forcing myself to go with the option that keeps him happiest#and that means keeping him home and working with the vet to do what we can as best we can
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just found out the lead singer of taiwans biggest death metal band is also an active parliament member since like 2015.... and is still active as a death metal singer. he's a pretty standard taiwanese center left anti communist from what i could gather. which like as a leftist i dont really agree with but i also dont know enough abt taiwanese politics to like make a full judgement. though he seems to be a standard liberal nothing remarkable, radical, or new, not overtly horrible but just bland. but that was something i definitely did Not expect. apparently he's very pro indigenous rights and self determination for indigenous people but being in a centre left mega party like the DPP does not seem like the best way to achieve that. But yea, just thought I'd share
#chthinic collabed heavily with collage last year and ik natsuki (lead singer of collage) is very pro indigenous rights and posts abt it a#lot of instagram and i really appreciate the amount of political stuff on her platform. its all very progressive tho v much limited to tw#so idk. i kind of got the cibe of some groups that see taiwanese indigenous issues as seperate to the larger issue of colonialism and#indigenous rights all over the world to conflicts such as palestine. where some other groups have a lot more of the collective consciousnes#and idk. my view is limited and i didnt see that much but when i go back i def wanna look for more political groups in tw and learn about#the political landscape there for leftism. theres a lot of potential in tw imo#chthonic* natsuko**#edit: overall i think that like.. i get the spirit but i feel like for many taiwanese the identity of tw has been everyone united agaisnt#china which i can understand from the perspective of the indigenous ppl that had their land colonized by the japanese then had to share with#the fleeing kmt settlers. but like i dont think that its the best approach to say only china bad rather than big governments threatening to#take your land by force is bad. because idk my take on china and tw is that regardless of the historical claim or wtv. taiwans indigenous#people have been there long before the han ever stepped foot. and china isnt all good as seen in its treatment of the uyghers and tibetans#but is overall not nearly as bad as the west paints it to be. china is neither fully a communist paradise. and has many capitalist undertone#s influence the government ever since deng xiaoping came to power. personally i never fully agreed with mao. i think mao was a necessary#figure in the beginning and let power go to his head and i believe zhou enlai always shouldve been the founder of the PRC#fuck the kmt.. never liked the kmt and it seems as they are also slowly losing favor in tw also. and like... hmm#i need to do more reading tho. none of this is like 100% set in stone how i feel bc theres a lot i dont know
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Forced recovery for adults should not be a thing.
Why does bodily autonomy not apply to those with EDâs ? Even if itâs dangerous, itâs not your body. And some people would definitely be doing much worse without their ED.
I can honestly say Iâm a million times worse mentally after ârecoveryâ than I ever was on my worst days of anorexia.
#itâs literally ableism the way we are infantilized#I think medical stabilization is the only thing that should be legal#but the way parents of adults or even the state can forcefully put adults into treatment is fucked#Iâm so much worse mentally after being forced into treatment and made to gain 35 lbs#the way doctors and books tell parents how to gain guardianship to force you into treatment shouldnât happen#what if your parent is already abusive?#tw ed rant#my momâs abuse increased and it was hidden
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