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support · 10 years
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Everything okay?
If you or someone you know is struggling, you are not alone. There are many support services that are here to help. For 24/7 peer support and other resources, message KokoBot on Tumblr.
If you are in the United States, please try:
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) The Trevor Project (LGBTQ youth, ages 13-24) National Eating Disorders Association (online chat, text) RAINN (National Sexual Assault Hotline)
If you are outside the United States, visit IASP to find resources for your country.
For more resources, please visit our Counseling & Prevention Resources page for a list of services that may be able to help.
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neuroticboyfriend · 2 days
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tiktok is so awful to use when you have morality ocd, or something similar. "hey stop, dont scroll" "please dont scroll!" "you MUST like/share/comment/duet this video" "[insert guilt trip here]" etc etc... like. let's just say my feed very quickly goes from content that relaxes me, with some more serious content throughout... to a nonstop stream of all the fundraisers, bad news, and serious topics in the world.
and yes. it is good to be aware of these things and do what you can. everyone should do that to the best of their ability... but your best doesn't mean compulsively engaging with something. there is a difference between thoughtfully engaging, and doing something while driven by the gnawing fear of being a terrible person... which isnt only exhausting but, only going to make the obsession and compulsions worse.
the tiktok algorithm honestly makes this 100x worse too. you might see the stray post on tumblr with these attention grabs, but tumblr isnt gonna keep putting more of them in your feed if you read the post. tiktok does. so, with tiktok, if you have moral ocd you quite literally need to start scrolling past things for any of it to get better.
so. if you do use tiktok. here is your sign to go make your feed something you can enjoy (clear the cache in your settings so you dont have to scroll to change the feed!) it is okay if you need a space to just, watch something short that relaxes or interests you. you can still keep up with important things in other ways, on platforms that aren't going to throw you into a total spiral through a creepy algorithm... especially given all the misinformation on tiktok.
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I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.
The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.
In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.
"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.
"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.
"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.
"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.
Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.
PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.
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madpunks · 1 year
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it's okay if you get confused easily. it's okay if you forget things easily. it's okay if you lose track during conversation easily. it's okay if you have to ask for clarification often. it's okay if you struggle to parse information or sensory unit. you're not "playing dumb" or "doing it on purpose". it's okay to be disabled, some people just refuse to be accommodating.
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twisted-rat-king · 2 years
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told someone i'm schizophrenic and they ask "are you sure it's not just your mind playing tricks on you" bro what the fuck do you think schizophrenia is
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leeb-leefuh-lurve · 1 year
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ed-recoverry · 4 months
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Shoutout to people who “just” have anxiety and depression. I’m sorry the severity of your disorders are downplayed. I know from personal experience, when I was dealing with “just” anxiety and depression, that this was something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Depression is severe. Anxiety is severe. There is no “just” anxiety and depression.
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bpdcrybaby213 · 1 year
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Sometimes I want to let the mental illness consume me fully so I can stop fighting and not be exhausted anymore. Sometimes I want to give up and feel the release.
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it’s not even a fear of abandonment anymore, it’s anticipated. it’s practically backed by science with the amount of times it’s happened.
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brokenfrombirth · 5 months
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🎶 Where were you when everything was falling apart? 🎶
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neuroticboyfriend · 2 days
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i keep thinking now that i'm getting sober, that my life can't be that bad because it was worse in active addiction. but like. to get to the point of such a severe addiction, your life needs to be pretty fucking bad.
drugs are like a last stop method of coping for your brain. when nothing else works, you basically go on the path of slowly killing yourself. it has to be so bad that the risk of death doesn't compare to the relief it brings you. how intolerable does your life have to be to get to that point?
you've just managed to set the bar so incredibly low, that you don't even realize how much support you still need. getting sober ameliorates some problems but, we never learned to process whatever emotions we were running from and odds are, our health and material situation is at best the same, or at worst.. worse.
like.. you dont need to invalidate your own struggles with.. your own struggles. you dont need to invalidate them at all, actually.
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scatterashes · 2 years
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intersexfairy · 2 years
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hey uh. don't listen to the people who say the bullying won't matter once you get out of school. because shit. it will.
bullying is peer abuse. it's traumatizing. and while getting out of the environment helps, the hurt doesn't go away. all the things ingrained in you don't go away. just because your bullies might not be in your life doesn't mean the awful things they did to you don't matter. they are still very significant people in your life.
please don't brush it off. please treat yourself with kindness and fight for the support and safety you deserve. you are not the person your bullies thought you were. you never were. you deserve to be happy and confident, and minimizing what happened won't lead to that.
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rahabq · 1 year
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twisted-rat-king · 1 year
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if you "offer disability accommodations" but mandate the person have an impossible amount of paperwork to "prove" that they're disabled before even speaking to them, you don't fucking offer accommodations.
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