#mentally ill/mad

[queermoths]

tw for sanism, specifically against those with psychosis and mentions of abuse (non-detailed, purely mentions)

note before reading: this is written by a person with psychosis/psychotic person. please understand this is coming from personal experiences and my unique perspective of the world as someone who has psychosis and experiences this stigma and discrimination. in other words, non-psychotics you may reblog and be polite but you may not argue or perpetuate more harm on this post. i will delete and block. us people with psychosis need to be at the center of this conversation.

furthermore, although i am a writer and that is my passion, my mental health is struggling at the moment and so if this is hard to read/repetitive please be understanding and just ask for clarification politely if needed.

man, i cannot stand the trope of “this person is psychotic and therefore abusive and dangerous and a horrible person.” like, wow, way to stereotype a symptom that already is already so stigmatised and one that often means the person who has it goes through discrimination, including medical violence.

i hate it so much. it perpetuates the dangerous assumptions people have about those with psychosis, that our psychosis makes us inherently bad or abusive or dangerous.

like, yes. psychosis can involve delusions/hallucinations of harming oneself or others. but thats not for every psychotic person nor is it the only part of psychosis!!

and everyone deserves help, if they have hallucinations/delusions like that or not.

and making media where psychosis is always represented as dangerous to *others* and abusive and only harmful to the non-psychotic people around the person with psychosis centres non-psychotic people in the conversation of psychosis. it also normalises tropes of us being abusive and dangerous, so that that becomes all that people see when they see us.

and no one ever talks about being a danger to oneself with psychosis. its always about people around us, because of the fear that has become rooted in our society from the discriminatory stigma and stereotypes we are forced into.

psychosis doesn’t inherently mean someone is dangerous.

if someone is abusive, thats not their disorder or symptom. thats them. blaming the disorder or symptom makes it an excuse.

(this is coming from me reading a comic where the horrible evil abusive villain of the story hallucinates voices telling him to harm people and then he harms people and thats used as the “reason” hes abusive. and people are in the comments calling him a “psycho.” its fucking awful.)

#sanism #tw sanism #abuse tw #tw abuse #actually psychotic #psychosis spectrum #psychosis #mentally ill/mad #actually mentally ill #mentally ill #mental illness #mental health

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

#196 #my thougts #leftist #leftism #jewish #jumblr #actually mentally ill #mental illness #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #world war 2 #world war ii #history #queer #gay #queer history #pagan #athiest #athiesm #disability rights #communist #communism #socialist #socialism #anti conservative #anti christianity #christanity #christianity #mad pride #madpunk

[madpunks]

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.

#mad pride #madpunk #mad punk #schizophrenia #mentally chill #mentally ill #mental illness #mental health #adhd #did #ocd #ptsd #autism #brain fog #neurodivergent #mental heath awareness

[wr0wn]

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?

#leon kennedy #leon s kennedy #leon scott kennedy #leon kennedy fanart #re2 leon #re4 leon #leon resident evil #resident evil 2 #resident evil 4 #resident evil #re4 #alice madness returns #art #digital illustration #illustration #fanart #artists on tumblr #my boy #my magical girl #a little mentally ill #my babygirl

[neuroticboyfriend]

If you struggle with substance abuse but not addiction, you still deserve support. If you struggle with suicidality/self harm urges but don't act on it, you still deserve support. If you struggle with psychosis and paranoia but have insight, you still deserve support. If you struggle with anything but are "coping with it," you still deserve support.

You dont need to be in imminent crisis to get help - safety planning, harm reduction, resources, and accommodations. You're still struggling. You're still suffering, You're still at risk/in danger. You deserve better - you need better. Your health and wellbeing matters.

#softspoonie #disabled #disability #mental health #mental illness #suicidality #self harm #suicide #suicide prevention #drug use #substance abuse #addiction #harm reduction #psychosis #paranoia #psychotic #actually psychotic #mad punk #madpunk #mental health awareness #mental health support #mentally ill #depression

[cistematicchaos]

Telling me that being upset by my intrusive thoughts is proof I'm a good person did jackshit to help me, ngl. In fact, all it did was make me feel like I HAD to go down a spiral of horror and self-hatred any time I had those thoughts in order to prove those thoughts didn't make me a monster. I still feel like that.

But the most helpful advice I got about them was genuinely just to treat them gently. Laugh. Roll my eyes. Go "not my brain acting up again 🙄" or "Bro, I do no want to do that, shut up 😩".

Like...Telling people their suffering is proof they're good people isn't really helpful, in the long run. Or at all, for plenty of us. We need to be working WITH our brains, instead of constantly fighting against them. I have this tiny section in my journal, where when I was feeling okay, I wrote myself a note on intrusive thoughts and hallucinations and there's a line I keep in mind:

"Having thoughts-it's like an ocean; shit washes up sometimes. And then, if you let it, it gets washed away."

You have to let it wash away. You can't pick up every piece of crap that washes up and study it, keep it in your little backroom, trying to determine why it's here and what its purpose is. Babe, you're not a marine biologist. Sometimes bullshit is just bullshit and you've gotta train yourself to recognize that. You don't have to be disgusted every time you run across it. You can just keep moving.

#Intrusive thoughts #hallucinations #disability #actually mentally ill #Chaos is speaking #mad pride

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

La classe operaia va in paradiso (Elio Petri, 1971)

#La classe operaia va in paradiso #Elio Petri #Petri #1971 #The working class goes to heaven #Gian Maria Volonté #Gian Maria Volonte #Salvo Randone #quote #crazy #mental illness #madness

[welcome-to-alice-in-helll]

#alice #dark alice #american mcgee's alice #alice madness returns #tim burton #alice in wonderland #mad #madness #creepy #coquette #haunted #yami kawaii #ghosts #dark #spooky #halloween #mental illness #asylum #alice asylum

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

Do you remember before? We stood facing each other on opposite sides of that door. Now we stand side-by-side. Let's go home together this time.

#kingdom hearts #sora #riku #soriku #ddd #the hunchback of notre dame #gifs #ali's gifs #ali's kh gifs #LONG TIME NO POST OOPS #i promise im alive ive just been dealing with mental health stuff (and spending less time on social media in general) #but i noticed this while editing ddd scenes for soriku comp 2.0 #and now im MAD at myself for not seeing it sooner bc its NOT IN MY DISNEY COUPLES PARALLELS VIDEO >:(((((( #ah well. ill link it there #anyway wild that both of these shots happen in the same game huh #and the heights line up (riku is on the same side as phoebus and hes taller than sora) #(just like phoebus is taller than esmeralda) #no hand holding tho cuz SENA is homophobic /s #also hey using tag bundles through xkit switched this back to the old post editor and i can use pre text again 8)

[whereserpentswalk]

I 100% believe that the main reason people are scared they'll lose their creativity after they get help isn't because of some sort of self hatred most of the time, but because of the very material reality that the psychological industry exists to make people "normal" rather than happy. Like, when getting "help" means conforming to social standards, and your art is something that actively makes you less normal in the eyes of society, than it makes sense that you see that "help" as a threat to your existence as an artist. Most psychiatrists would openly admit that they'd consider turning an independent creative into an emotionless businessman as a win, why is it suddenly a conspiracy theory when the patient understands that just as well?

#196 #my thougts #leftist #actually autistic #actually mentally ill #actually neurodivergent #mental ill health #mental health #mental illness #anticapitalism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #artists on tumblr #creatives #creatives on tumblr #madlib #mad pride #antipsychiatry #anti psychiatry #madpunk #mad liberation #autistic #autism #autistic things #autistic adult #autistic artist #disability rights

[madpunks]

shoutout to slow learners. shoutout to people who take a very long time to parse and grasp new concepts. shoutout to people who struggle to follow directions. shoutout to people who can't perform a task just after watching someone else do it. shoutout to everyone who needs learning aids, needs to take notes, needs to try multiple times, and needs to be told the explanation repeatedly.

you're not dumb. you're not lesser. you're not doing it on purpose. everyone learns at their own pace, and people forcing you to learn faster than you can are the ones causing a disruption in your ability to learn. it's not your fault.

#autism #adhd #schizophrenia #ocd #dyslexia #mental illness #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #disabled #disability #schizospec #schizospectrum #developmental disorders #downs syndrome #learning disorders #mad punk #mad pride #madpunk

[crazycatsiren]

September is:

Pain Awareness Month

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Bisexuality Visibility Month

#cripple punk #mad punk #queer #disabled #spoonie #mental health #actually mentally ill #lgbtq+ #bisexuality #chronic pain warrior

[hellonerf]

be honest with him about his constant mental shit and the nature of his being and he calls you useless

#hetalia #aph america #hws america #myart #i dont think he cries a lot at all like at all bit drawing ame meltdown is rly fun #i think he'd just freak out so bad and get mad at people for no reason last ditch attempts to save his image(???) #ame bible #<-i think now ame bibles just the tag for my madeup ame mental illness bullshit #favorite of mine

[neuroticboyfriend]

happy disability pride month to people whose mental illnesses involve physical disability, and people whose physical disabilities involve mental illness! your experiences are real and deserve to be heard ♡

happy disability pride month to mentally ill/ND and invisibly ill people who get told they can't be disabled - you belong in this community, no matter what anyone else says! ♡

happy disability pride month to people who don't want their condition cured! you deserve support and all the accomodations you need to live a fulfilling life ♡

happy disability pride month to mentally ill people who aren't ready to recover, or don't plan on ever recovering! you're the only person who can decide what's best for you and your bodymind ♡

happy disability pride month to people who are part of disabled cultures and subcultures! i'm wishing you and your community so much joy and goodness ♡

and happy disability pride month to all disabled people! you're a light in this world! i hope this month you grow and find support, and go into august a better happier you ♡

#softspoonie #disabled #disability #mental health #mental illness #chronic illness #chronically ill #chronic pain #neurodivergency #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #cripplepunk #madpunk #cpunk #crippunk #disability pride #disability pride month #pride #pride month #mad pride #physically disabled #physical disability

[trans-axolotl]

Image description: [Black text on lined paper. Text reads: Share your story with the Psych Survivor Archive. Hold the psychiatric system accountable for the violence and coercion we've survived. Make space for our anger. Grieve together. Celebrate our resistance. The Psych Survivor Archive is a forum for psych survivors to share about their experiences and be believed. You can share as much or as little as you want. Your story will be anonymously published on the website with writing from other psych survivors. The archive is open to anyone who identifies as a psych survivor, including people who survived inpatient hospitalization, rehab, troubled teen industry, partial hospitalization, outpatient programs, ABA, and any other form of coercion psych treatment. Check out the prompts, participant rights, and content guidelines. Share your story now: www.psychsurvivorarchive.com/submit-your-story]

Hey everyone. I wanted to share this here as well. The Psych Survivor Archive is looking for anyone who wants to share their story and have it anonymously published on the website, in order to create a collection of our experiences navigating the psych system. Your responses will be anonymous and can be as detailed or vague as you want. On the website, there are prompts, but you can feel free to share in whatever format makes sense to you.

This is a more informal way to participate in the Psych Survivor Archive if you are not interested in creating art for the zine, but still want your story to be heard and validated.

For me, it has felt very cathartic to write out my story, on my terms, in the way that I want to be known. I hope that the archive can offer that space to other psych survivors as well, and I can't wait to keep developing this project and offering even more. In the next couple weeks, submissions will open up for the second edition of the zine, so if you're interested in submitting creative art or writing keep an eye out!

love and solidarity always <3

#personal #psych survivor #antipsych #survivingpsych #mad liberation #mad pride #madpunk #neurodivergent #mental illness #psych abolition #antipsychiatry #thank you SO much to everyone who's submitted stories so far. they are now live on the website #for me i process through writing. it means a lot to feel seen #and this is a small thing that i would like. to do with other people as well. idk #i know writing and sharing is really not everyone's thing and that's totally okay. as always there's #no pressure to participate. just an option #hopefully will be publishing some more zines soon about basic antipsych topics which would be lovely

[honeypleasejustkillme]

"ok" just say you hate me and want me to die

#actually bpd #actually mentally ill #bpd #actually borderline #bpd fp #bpd problems #bpd vent #bpd shitposting #bpd favorite person #bpd mood #it quite literally makes me feel like stabbing myself #it’s so vague it makes me question everything #like did i do something wrong..are they mad at me..did i ruin another friendship.. all of it at once