#mental health stigma

[schizopositivity]

Ever notice how every time you hear "schizophrenic", "psychotic" or "hearing voices" in the wild it's tied to violent crimes, scary people, mean people or horror movies? And never people trying to challenge the stigma around schizophrenia and psychosis?

#schizophrenia #mental illness #nd #neurodivergent #schizophrenic #psychosis #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #mental health #mental health stigma #sanism #tw sanism

[selectivechaos]

do not laugh at people for uncommon phobias

your phobias are not embarrassing. people can have phobias of absolutely anything, and they can be really precise and something that other people would think is strange to be scared of. your fears are valid feelings. you shouldn't have to be ashamed, but many people do not know about phobias beyond the common ones.

if it's something you don't understand because you've never seen it before, don't laugh at it.

they're not "being silly",

they can't "just get over it"

they need actual help, rather than unprofessional exposure therapy

they're experiencing real real fear

people with common phobias get sympathy; people with uncommon phobias get ridiculed at the worst possible moment: when they're in a state of fear.

so i repeat: don't laugh at them. 🌹🌹

#fun fact: people with sm may have specific phobias/other anxiety disorders #sm tag #phobias #mentalheathawareness #mental health stigma #sanism tw #madpunk

[keezybees]

My book is out today!! I wrote about my experiences with bipolar 1, including mania, psychosis, depression, stigma, treatment, and self-acceptance. Silver Sprocket did an incredible job making this a beautiful book, and I'm so happy to share it with you 💛

It's sort of my way of reaching out past the stigma, and to try to connect with people despite it. I hid it for so long, and it still feels both scary and freeing to talk about it publicly, but every time someone says they felt seen, or that they're better able to understand a loved one, I feel joy. Partly because it means I'm not just crazy all by myself, and partly because all most of us want is to be loved and accepted, and I hope this book can help make that dream more real.

You can find Sunflowers at the Silver Sprocket store (here) or you can request it at your local bookstore or comic shop.

#bipolar disorder #bipolar #mental illness #mental health #mania #depression #psychosis #hallucinations #delusions #comics #comic books #comic book art #autobio #autobio comics #autobiographical #mental health stigma #mental illness stigma #stigma

[bisexualseraphim]

Me: If, hypothetically, a person’s trauma causes them to become severely mentally ill and that illness makes them potentially difficult or even harmful to be around, wouldn’t that mean that we as a society should therefore focus on preventing that type of trauma and encourage compassion and recovery for these people to reduce the risk of the cycle continuing?

“Narc abuse” mfs: Everyone I deem as having this rare personality disorder that is notoriously difficult to diagnose and psychiatrists often refuse to treat is a soul-sucking demonic Incubus that should be skinned alive

#Soup. Literal brain soup #I’m not literally saying pwNPD are harmful to be around btw #I’m just using these people’s own logic against them #ableism #npd #npd safe #sanism #cluster b safe #bpd #aspd #hpd #bpd safe #aspd safe #hpd safe #actually bpd #mental illness #trauma #personality disorder #mental health stigma #therapy

[voidxbrat]

Calling the symptoms of a severe mental illness a “red flag” is extremely fucking ableist.

#severe mental illness #actually mentally ill #stigmatized disorders #mental health stigma #ableism #aria #personality disorder #psychotic disorders #schizo spectrum #neurodivergent #dissociative disorder #trauma disorder

[kringlepringle]

"lol my intrusive thoughts are telling me to default dance in public"

oh yeah? mine make me scratch at my skin and repeat "shut up" in my head over and over to block out the images of me murdering and raping people. mine show me graphic images of me and my family getting shot, cut open, and tortured.

im getting irritated man.

#intrusive thinking #instrusive thoughts #mental health #stigma #mental health stigma #digital art #digital painting #art #digital sketch #anxienty #generalized anxiety disorder #irritated

[frogsforthefrogwar]

We talk about how people who experience intrusive thoughts aren't bad people because the thoughts "aren't really them" and thats all good but like shout out to people who genuinely do struggle with violent, manipulative, or any other negative urges.

Thoughts are not actions. If you genuinely struggle with wanting to do harm but everyday make the choice not to then I think that's amazing.

I might not believe in good or bad people because I think morality is more complicated than that, but if you really pressed me I honestly believe that someone who wants to hurt people but doesn't is a better person than someone who doesn't hurt people simply because they have no desire to.

#abelism #mental health #mental health stigma #intrusive thoughts #anger issues

[janersm]

Fat shaming anyone is inexcusable. Fat shaming someone with an eating disorder is unforgivable.

#disordered eating mention #fatphobia #fat shaming #terfs dni #anti terf #radfems dni #anti swerf #anti exclusionary #anti radfem #ableism #mental illness #mental health #mental health stigma #lanasbestdealer #femaleserialkillers #desisapphic #fat anorexic #fat bulimic #anorexia #bulimia #binge eating disorder #nickiminajsglock

[awbrainno]

Listen, I'm not saying that no person with NPD has ever been abusive. I'm just saying that when an abuser has anxiety, we don't call it Anxious Abuse and form a whole movement around warning people to stay away from those dangerous anxious abusers.

#npd #narcissistic personality disorder #mental health stigma #my personality disorder doesn't make me evil and neither does anyone else's actually

[schizopositivity]

Can people please stop comparing the stigma of their widely recognized mental illnesses to psychosis/schizophrenia? I understand there is stigma of other mental illnesses too, but that's a lot more talked about and debunked. When I make posts about my illness and community specifically I don't appreciate you derailing it to include your illness that doesn't face the same stigma.

People looking at you weird isn't the same as people filming you and posting it for laughs, people attacking you because they see you existing as a threat, and calling the police for showing symptoms you can't control. You can't convince me that the stigma around psychosis and schizophrenia doesn't exist or is the same as the stigma of every other mental illness. I see it every day, I've experienced it myself, I don't share my illness publicly because I fear for my own physical safety and humanity.

Here are some examples I have naturally come across on YouTube comments recently, people don't usually fight against these and they are the norm: [TW: sanism, serial killer mention, demonic possession mention, forced medication, forced hospitalization]

We don't commit most violent crimes in the world. We are not inherently violent. But society's belief that this is true and that we should all be locked up for the rest of our life is still believed widely today. This is what I am advocating against. This is what I want changed in the world and at the very least in the neurodiversity community. We just want to be seen as humans, please do not make this about other mental illnesses.

#schizophrenia #schizo-spec #schizo #psychosis #psychotic #mental illness #nd #neurodivergent #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #mental health #mental health stigma #tw sanism #tw demons #tw possesion #tw serial killers #tw forced medication #forced hospitalization

[selectivechaos]

situational mutism assumptions.

still seeing posts that say “don’t use nonverbal; use selective mutism instead as a phrase” uh, no you shouldn’t. you shouldn’t co-opt a whole disorder as a neat little phrase to use for when you can’t speak.

seeing people say they wanna “go selectively mute” like it’s a lifestyle choice for when you don’t want to speak to someone. this is so harmful, because it makes lives of selectively mute people more unsafe when others assume we ‘do it’ because we don’t want to speak to them.

seeing people say they ‘grew out of it’.

seeing people say they did x nice thing for their friend with sm “and then they spoke to me!” like there’s a reward system.

hate when people around me act like me speaking to them is their achievement. no it’s not. it’s mine and i get to decide whether it’s an achievement or not. i get to decide how i feel about my voice and vocality.

🌹🌹

#situational mutism #selective mutism #mentalheathawareness #sm tag #mental health stigma

[keezybees]

March 30th is World Bipolar Day! Sunflowers is my new autobio comic about what having bipolar disorder 1 with psychosis is like for me, and what it's like living with the stigma. This was definitely the scariest, most emotionally-difficult comic I've ever made (and the most honest).

It’s 22 pages, and you can download it on Itch.io: https://keezyyoung.itch.io/sunflowers

#bipolar disorder #bipolar #mania #mental illness #mental health #comics #autobio comics #depression #hypomania #psychosis #mental health stigma #comic art #comic panels

[neuroticboyfriend]

struggling with mental health does not make you a bad person. having an illness or disability is morally neutral. and even if you do bad things, you deserve support. mental health care is a human right. and there is always hope, for both our wellbeing and who we want to be.

#softspoonie #morality #mental health #mentally ill #mental illness #sanism #ableism #anti ableism #disabled #disability #stigma #mental health stigma #mental health support #human rights #disability rights #disabled rights #stigmatization

[malencholic-nyx]

My parents whenever I try to talk about mental health...

Depression? What's that? You have a roof over your head and food on the table, what more do you need to be happy?

You're not crazy. You're just overreacting. Now, stop being dramatic and get back to work.

#what the actual fuuuuuck #like seriously #mar jaon mai??? #mental health stigma #every desi parents ever #Sarcasm #desi culture #desiblr #mentally fucked #gen z life #gen z kids #gen z post

[c0l0re]

It honestly infuriates me how people will say things like "being low empathy doesn't make you evil, it's okay!" and "It's okay if you do good things even if you yourself don't feel it like other people!" and "It's okay to do good things even if you don't do it the same way or for the same reasons as other people!" only to then insult and vilify people who have low empathy and thus feel little to nothing when bad things happen, or when they do good things for good causes despite not having the same emotional connection/sense of duty as others, or when someone cares about something but doesn't care "enough" or it the "right way" according to them.

Y'all are all for destigmatizing mentally ill and neurodivergent traits until they become something "undesirable" or make the person "fake" or "toxic" to you. We're doing our best with the way our brains are wired and unfortunately we can't just flip some magic switch to suddenly make ourselves "normal"

Y'all claim that you love and support low empathy people until they talk about feeling disconnected and disillusioned with bad things that have happened, then they're just monsters who don't care about anyone at all are actually dangerous and "part of the problem" even if they still do what they can whenever it's possible for them.

Y'all claim that you love and support people who do good things for reasons other than what's consider to be "good" reasons, but then antagonize and slander anyone who does genuinely good things despite feeling disconnected from the cause or whatever else.

This can even apply to other things, too. Y'all claim that you support and love aromantics, asexuals, and aplatonics, until they feel disillusioned and disconnected from even the concepts of love or whatever at all. Y'all treat repulsed, adverse, and loveless aspecs like trash because they don't experience something or don't act on their emotions in a way that you've deemed to be "normal" and it's genuinely sickening.

Y'all can talk all you want about supporting anyone who's seen as "monstrous" or "evil" or "emotionless" or whatever else in mainstream society, but until you actually confront your own biases and start practicing what you preach, you are not going to get anywhere, and you are not the ally to people like us that you think you are.

Until you learn to accept that not everyone is going to be some perfect, morally pure, completely altruistic, and endlessly giving/empathetic angel, you are not going to actually get anywhere, and you are going to keep vilifying and harming people who just happened to end up being a certain way and didn't have any say in it.

People are not inherently evil for what they do or do not feel. It's all about how they react to and act on those feelings or lack thereof. That also means you need to stop equating a lack of feeling with a lack of caring

#mental illness #mental disorders #mental health stigma #neurodivergence #low empathy #no empathy #neurodivergent stigma #saneism #ableism #arophobia #acephobia #colore speaks

[bisexualseraphim]

I’m about to say some shit that a lot of you are really not gonna want to hear.

If you call yourself a trans ally but constantly put men down, you are not a trans ally.

If you call yourself body positive but call men ugly or make fun of them for having small dicks, you are not body positive.

If you call yourself a mental health advocate but that advocacy doesn’t include people with personality disorders or psychotics, you are not a mental health advocate.

If you call yourself pro-choice but object to a woman partaking in sex work or surrogacy, you are not pro-choice.

If you call yourself kink positive but shame others for having non-harmful unorthodox fantasies you personally don’t like, you are not kink positive.

If you claim to accept bisexuals but feel disgust at their “opposite gender” attraction, you are partaking in biphobia.

If you claim to be against xenophobia but make fun of other people’s accents or dialects, you are partaking in xenophobia.

If you claim to be for class solidarity but make fun of working class people’s dialects, food, clothes or culture, you are partaking in classism.

If you claim to be against Islamophobia but find yourself associating Islam with terrorism, you are partaking in Islamophobia.

If you claim to be against antisemitism but find yourself regularly calling Jews Zionists, you are partaking in antisemitism.

I’m not saying any of this makes you A Xenophobe™️ or inherently bigoted. But these are just a few things many leftists still need to unlearn when it comes to seeking true acceptance and equality, and I see far too much of this behaviour on this website from people who claim to be ardently against it. Everyone has subconscious prejudices that need to be addressed and what matters is making the effort to improve on that behaviour once it’s been recognised. These are just examples that have stood out to me the most lately and there will be more because none of us are perfect and I have been guilty of these before as well. I just hope to see change and growth rather than indignation.

#transphobia #body positivity #body shaming #mental health stigma #pro choice #kink positive #biphobia #xenophobia #classism #islamophobia #antisemitism #bisexual #trans #transgender #leftist politics #leftist infighting #mental health advocate #cluster b safe