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fiapple · 1 year ago

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the tags on this post elaborate, so i deeply encourage reading them, but there has to be more acknowledgment that mental illness can be a disability for some people. Anything from depression to personality disorders to schizophrenia can disable a person insofar as making them unable to function. It does a disservice both to those who are disabled by their mental health & those who feel their physical &/or neurological disabilities are inextricably interlinked to their mental health experientially to pretend otherwise.

#context: i say this as someone who is preparing to go through the process of disability for a mixture of mental health reasons & pan #*process of getting on disability #undiagnosed chronic pain issue i need to begin to sort out medically both of which are exacerbated by heavily-felt anemia symptoms #this isn’t to say it is the same or faces the same social barriers as physical or neurological disabilities this is to say people act like #“disabled” & “mentally ill” are two separate circles when it’s literally a venn diagram #& it leads to so much ableist bullshit for people in both groups & in their overlap #like you can absolutely be disabled by poor mental health & face disability stigma for it (again not saying it’s the same as physical #disability) & there needs to be more room in mental health spaces for those who’s physical &/or neurological disability impacts their #mental health in a way they feel adds to their disability &/or how their disability is used to delegitimize their mental health concerns #& there needs to be more room in disability spaces for those who are disabled by their mental health to talk about their experience #& there needs to be more room in both communities for the acknowledgment of the overlap there in #also i feel like now is a good time to mention that again there are differences but there is also SO much overlap between the stigma we face #to give a specific example the idea of disabilities being psychosomatic is rooted in mental health stigma (ie. even if it’s in your head it #would still deserve treatment in spite of that claim most often being used to argue to the contrary)#and the ways in which our understandings of our minds &/or bodies are delegitimized are often far more similar than they are different.#disablity #disability rights #mental health #mental illness #disabilties #mental health stigma #disability stigma #ableism #community solidarity #community overlap

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