#useless psychiatrist

[katzirra]

Some Hannibals for your dashboard today. He was singing to me from the tree earlier and FLOPPING DANGEROUSLY AROUND UP THERE... then he got a package.

Becca bought him a new bed that is coffin shaped because it was Han sized. He's enjoying it and the lid that doubles as a scratching board.

My big dumb baby.....

[katzirrart]

Was doing a warm up on my iPad testing out some brush settings I tweaked and doodled myself. Kinda started laughing and ended up doing a Meet the Artist???? SURE.

[katzirra]

Like he has an appointment.

Owning a black cat is awesome because you’ll leave the bathroom and The Shape will be waiting for you

[orpheuslament]

guess who finally got a diagnosis after 13 fucking years of wondering what the hell was wrong with me!!

[ayliffe]

okay. tomorrow i’ll be responsible and beg my gp to prescribe my antidepressants on the nhs but tonight i just want to be self-destructive i think. i’ll be fine, i’m just tired and miserable and realising being off my meds sucks, actually

[roaldamundsen]

seeing my therapist for the first time since watching the passenger what do I say

[spghtrbry]

i wish i could just sleep forever

[vanilla-voyeur]

In a turn of events unsurprising to everyone except the bipolar person, the mood stabilizer I've been tritating off of that wasn't doing anything was in fact stabilizing my mood

[katzirra]

Enjoy my Hannibal and William's I've been forgetting to upload 💖💖

hey

you

show me ur pets

(exotic or otherwise i love them all)

[katzirra]

I have such a beautiful and photogenic cat, and he absolutely fucking hates his picture being taken... Like if he sees your phone? He purposely looks away from you... rude little Hannibal.

He loves this stupid coffin bed...

[electricpurrs]

theres something really funny (aka i want to start killing people) about going to an appointment on the psychiatrist for my autism with big nice posters on the walls about mental health and autism and then the waiting room itself is a small, crowded, noisy place with a tv constantly on. i want to get the fuck out of here

[natjennie]

I don't feel goooood :(

[ladyalienist]

So apparently a new revision of the DSM has been published and of course the changes are as stupid as imaginable. A new name for what was called Intellectual Disability, now named Intellectual Developement Disorder (God forbid we call a spade a spade and stop using fucking euphemisms to avoid dealing with "icky" realities). The (re)introduction of Prolonged Grief Disorder (ok) and slight changes to diagnostic criteria in plenty of conditions, mainly substituting symptoms/diagnosis/disorder with problems, just to again keep on using euphemisms because people cannot fucking handle reality.

Interestingly they keep on pushing for inclusive language, muddling the already ridiculous criteria for gender dysphoria and claiming they will also discuss the impact of racism/discrimination in mental distress (and of course the latter is important but allow me to have my doubts they will actually write something that makes sense, especially outside of the USA) and a new guideline for self-harm behaviour (I have the same doubts as before).

✨Things they did not do:✨

exploring the impact of new technologies on mental developement (no changes in the ADHD diagnosis, for real?)

exploring the impact of porn

exploring the impact of social media on distress and social contagion

discuss a new paradigm for trauma-related conditions, including personality disorders (on which my position is slightly different than the one Radbr usually has, but that is not the point)

discuss different forms of treatment for various forms of distress (surely in 10 fucking years there must have been some significant innovation...)

So basically this is a useless fucking thing just to try and justify APA's existence and spending 200 euros on a manual that has little to no substance to provide.

Fucking parasites, that's what they are.

EDIT because of course I do not notice stuff and someone else does:

✨The things they did not do✨ also include:

exploring/discussing the impact of Covid, either for the long-term consequence of the infection itself or the isolation and societal changes in the pandemic period

related to Covid, the awfully big number of people whose grief process never began to begin with: people who are not processing the death of a beloved one, a significant distress that APA would keep in mind if they gave two fucks about human welfare instead of money.

[jvzebel-x]

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[run-down-that-dream]

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[tonystarkstan]

there was no preparing me for how lonely post-grad life would be lmfao