#what about mental health treatment

[algumaideia]

I want analysis so bad like I'm sort of insane with it

[whoblewboobear]

I’m gonna take Kipperlilly from some of yall 👀 you can like a villain without trying to clear their name. She objectively is a murderer and a villain this season. It does not make you a “””””bad Person””””” if you like her. You do not have to try and age her down or make her out to be innocent or gentle or sweet or misunderstood. You do not get to use her mental health to excuse her actions either.

At this point, a lot of these post are getting into slippery slope territory, especially concerning mental health. You can be mentally ill and still understand right from wrong. Infantilizing people struggling with their mental health can cause harm. There are mentally ill people that can/will/do go their entire lives without blaming and trying to harm others because of what they’re going through.

Like I feel like we’ve officially hit Joaquin Phoenix Joker levels of ‘we live in a society’ discourse. Yes, there are things that suck and living with mental health issues and having that make your life harder sucks. But then funneling that feeling of unfairness and frustration into harming other people is not okay or justifiable. It’s a clear sign that someone went untreated or their mental health was not taken seriously enough soon enough.

There are a lot of young and impressionable people in the d20 community (a community that is overwhelmingly very supportive and cognizant of mental health) that will see the KLCK discourse and take some of these things to heart. Please be mindful in what you post. She is a fictional character and in context of the story, instead of getting further help or seeking better treatment for her mental health, she chose to harm people. Some responsibility does fall on her in that regard. Not all, but some. There is a point where things get very concerning when you become a danger to yourself or others, Kipperlilly is in that place to be very clear. She needs help.

Yes she is underage, and I do think Jawbone has a heavy responsibility to either reach out to her parents to report her behavior and figure out a treatment plan for her immediately. This never happened, even when she admitted to wanting to kill Kristen. She continued on, untreated and without her rage issues not being fully addressed. Then she murdered someone.

Infantilizing Kipperlilly to absolve her of her wrongdoing isn’t the convo we should be having. Figuring out where she falls on the morality scale does nothing, she’s one of the villains of the season, by that metric, she’s not a great person (not because of her rage disorder, because of her actions.) There are complexities to her. The conversation we should be having is why not a single faculty member or adult that interacted with her and witnessed this behavior didn’t say “woah hey, let’s pump the breaks and get you assessed for a few things and get to the root of what’s going wrong.”

When you see someone struggling, reach out, assess the situation. If you’re an adult and are in a position to help, don’t hesitate to do so or notify a parent or guardian in their life so they get them help. If you’re underage and see a peer struggling, check in and if something sticks out to you as concerning, reach out to an adult that can help or find someone to help. Don’t enable violent or harmful behavior. /Please/ that person can end up hurting themselves or someone else.

[orangerosebush]

Artemis Fowl

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The Atlantis Complex

[sweetlullabyebye]

Every day I wake up and remember Liam Dunbar was underdevelopped by the showrunners

[lord-squiggletits]

Speaking of Tyrest. A lot of people forget that he treated Pharma with absolute disdain, not only using him as a test subject for a clearly painful mass murder machine, but talking to Pharma like he saw him as nothing but some henchman to order around that was nothing more than a 'diseased cripple' if Tyrest hadn't come to rescue him.

Like it really is an interesting background dynamic with some curious implications, but when you look at fandom posts from around that issue/the years after, for some reason people just saw "Pharma worked with Tyrest" and concluded Pharma is a card carrying bigot ksjfnskxkd. Like yeah Pharma didn't do anything to stop Tyrest but it seems his main beef with the Autobots was with Ratchet in particular and maybe a general disdain for his ex-comrades. As well as continuing to hate Decepticons which like, not even the "good Autobots" are immune to (even in Pharma's introduction, First Aid says in his journal something like "yeah we all hate Decepticons, but Pharma REALLY hates them"). And despite what fandom likes to construe there's really no evidence in IDW1 that Autobots and Decepticons are different "races" or "types" of Cybertronians, so Pharma hating Decepticons really isn't a bigotry/robot racism thing. And instead probably has something to do with, idk, the 4 million year long galaxy-spanning blood feud war, or maybe being blackmailed and tortured into insanity by the Biggest and Most Decepticon-y of Decepticons.

Tyrest treated Pharma like trash, the other Decepticons working for Tyrest (how come no one ever brings that up btw) also hated him, so if anything it seems that Pharma was more of a rogue element only staying with Tyrest bc he was his best option and probably had no way to even escape.

I'm glad that at least in recent years the fandom has acquired a keen reading eye and good taste to finally recognize Pharma as the (accidentally) complex character he is instead of making him some posh, racist Starscream clone SHSJDGSGDH

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

[sistersorrow]

A big part of why every single suicide prevention strategy fails to work on me is that I have absolutely no reason to trust a single thing anyone says

They have a single goal in mind (convince me to continue living) and because that goal is perceived as an objective good, pretty much anything is permitted in pursuit of said goal, including just outright lying

That isn't me exaggerating or anything, I've had plenty of people say outright that they will say literally anything if they think it'll convince me, whether or not they think its remotely true, so at the end of the day I have no reason to take a single thing they say as remotely trustworthy cause anything they can and often is a futile attempt at tricking me into doing what they want

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Just! Yeah! Can we pls not fall into the ~old fashioned mental health care was so fucked up bc they did horrible things to NORMAL WOMEN, (not just freaks who deserve institutionalized torture)~ trap like pls I am begging!! Modern psychiatric care is also rooted in the same saneist and ableist annd racist and misogynist bullshit, just dressed up in a nicer outfit. Institutionalization is incarceration, and people suffer enormously in psychiatric hospitals at the hands of horrible power hungry staff and also approved treatments every single day. Autonomy in mental health care is not a given, and we need to be very careful about assuming that non consensual torture does not happen anymore in mental hospitals. I think it’s important we discuss it, and I am eager to hear/see more of what Taylor has to say (I think her bringing it up is suuuper reasonable and a very ripe creative world for her to explore so I’m not saying nobody should talk about it). Like. Just. The assumptions. Pls. Can’t believe this is a post I’m making on my swiftie tumblr but here we are!

[spokelseskladden]

wow who would've thought having the rightwing parties in power in this god's forsaken municipality would be a bad thing...who could've possibly seen this coming....... there's just no way anyone could've known that they would fuck every single one of us in every way imaginable..........

[arachnid-party]

[pointing at myself in the mirror] what is wrong with you, man

[savage-rhi]

First: HONEY DON'T FEEL BAD FOR CRITIQUING THERAPISTS AND THE WAY SHITS RUN! WE NEED TO HEAR THAT! I'm in mental health, and there are some REAL nasty pieces of work in the field who like preying on patients' vulnerability, and they're damn good at manipulating the systems and social dynamics!

Second, everyone should check this out. It brings up so many good points and considerations to make when seeking therapy or another mental health related service.

[pixiesnooze]

i’m sorry but ACTUALLY FIRST OF ALL the whole lawsuit happened because fifi wanted financial transparency they didn’t ask for anything they weren’t looking to leave none of that it then came to light that the mistreatment those girls went through was borderline abuse if not downright abuse you are telling me that one of them had 2 eds and as a result developed hormonal changes that stopped her period, another one of them suffered from seizures black outs and deep panic disorder and social phobia and she was not given the opportunity to get help and treatment not only that she was also at risk of KIDNEY FAILURE bc of the DIETS ENFORCED ON THE MEMBERS and lastly the youngest member who had cholecystitis and required emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder THAT COULD TURN CANCEROUS IF NOT TREATED IMMEDIATELY had her treatment postponed in favour of promoting their single at the time and when she was finally ALLOWED TO receive surgery they were pressuring her to get back out on stage performing A WEEK AFTER when she required weeks to recover which led to further distress and yall are gonna sit here like dumb stupid fucking ducks and be like “well they breached the terms of their contract so they have to face the legal consequences :// also the company literally said none of that happened so i am gonna continue to support the next group they put out” i pray for the sake of these new girls they are debuting that they don’t face a FRACTION of what fifty fifty went through

[zipquips]

feeling incredibly unprepared for my med appointment today

[wereshrew-admirer]

the figure in bysmuth -> the demeaning and invasive process of treating ADHD

chine the cleaver -> the symptoms of ADHD, untreated

[femmikoto]

kinda crazy that even after Everything we know mikoto STILL wouldnt quit his job if he went back to normal life unimpeded. my guy has three options in his future and they are

>kill self

>karoshi

>develop coke habit to increase productivity followed by karoshi

[netherese-blorb]

Gale, Karlach, and Feelings of Impending Doom

(cw: death, mental health, delusion)

So fun fact I have health-focused OCD that often manifests as touch aversion and delusions that I am dying/about to die. For uninteresting reasons, I've been in the middle of a pretty bad flare-up recently.

And I cannot stop thinking about Gale and Kalach.

Perfect examples of how fantasy and analogy can explain otherwise indescribable internal human experience.

Yes Karlach, it does feel like my body is running on a dying engine that could cut out at any minute. My skin does feel wrong and dangerous. It's not fair that the only place I can be truly safe is also my hell (isolation). I shouldn't have to go. I want to live.

She finds some form of treatment in Act 2 and, in all the ways that affect other people, she's fixed. Why would the rest matter? Why does everyone keep talking to me so gently? Why is it so hot in here?

Yes Gale, the specter of doom I carry has turned me into a shadow of my former self. The accommodations I compulsively seek to feel stable do feel like a costly sacrifice paid by those closest to me. I am also terrified of feeling too much joy, too much excitement, because I can't trust the tightness it puts in my chest.

He gets treatment in Act 2 as well. It's a miracle to have the ever-present swirling maw inside go quiet, but the threat of destruction still lingers, even if it no longer feels inevitable. Everyone keeps telling him "You're not going to die". They can't promise him that, but he smiles and indulges their reassurances. He owes them that much. Without them, he never would have made it past Moonrise.