#I'm not a licensed professional

[thelastsirenssong]

Y'all the Deku hit so hard tonight idk WHAT happened

It's the over thinking when he holds your hand. It's soft and small in his, his calloused and scarred hand- and he thinks, this is his life. Protecting and serving. And when you look into his eyes with a soft smile he's torn in half. Where would there be room, when would there be time, for this again? For your puffed laughter into the shell of his ear, for the small of your back pushed against his stomach as you dream? You say something full of love, and kindness, and patience, and he lets go of your hand, and smiles at you. He loves you, he loves you so much he could burst at the seams, he is a hero made into nothing but a freckled boy in your presence. He cannot be both. And you deserve for someone to be always be present, when you need them. He is a hero, lover to not one, but all. He lets go of your hand, and you look at him quizzically, while he sits next to you on your couch. He smiles at you, soft, and boyish, and Midoriya.

"I love you." You smile back, and he runs his hand behind you on the sofa cushion.

"I love you too." Deku, he reminds himself. You deserve more than Deku.

#bitch.... #I did this to myself i listened to my Deku playlist and it's so sad LMAO #I'm always sobbing like I CAN FIX HIM!!! I CAN DO IT!!! #I can't no one can expect a licensed professional Deku x therapy where's the love for this tag hm #here I'll tag it fr just to hurt everyone LMAO I'M SORRYYYYY #deku x reader #midoriya izuku x reader #TADA #here I'll queue it too #< .siren under a queue moon 🌙. >

[chronal-anomaly]

park ranger park ranger park ranger park ranger rahhhhhh

#my heart and soul is in this job i s2g #if I wasn't already 3 years into my degree when I realized that this was passion I would have switched but also I have bills to pay #but rahhhhhh I'm so excited to tool around in my little john deer cart #might fuck around and make them teach me the new skid steer (last year I learned how to drive the manual tractor) #and I got my professional chainsaw cert for free #and my cpr license #listen i love this job so fuckin much #i cannot wait to be outside #i cannot wait to meet people coming from around the country #it's just so FUN #like yeah i've had people nearly die on me to the point of using aed/cpr on them but like also #pretty sunsets and gov wages to drive around in a golf cart i love it so much i love it #( ooc. ) #tbd

[clochanamarc]

i'm watching gre.ys ana.tomy for the first time and like. it's an experience of DAZZLING proportions lads.

#greys anatomy tw #( OUT OF SOULS. ) #( how are these people LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ) #( MEREDITH U KEEP APPLYING UR PERSONAL BAGGAGE TO THESE VERY SENSITIVE CASES ) #( CRISTINA I ADORE U BUT U LITERALLY MAKE A POINT OF SAYING "i'm not a people person' EVERY EPISODE ) #( WHY ARE U IN A PROFESSION THAT DEMANDS BEING A VERY PEOPLE PERSON-- ) #( alex i wanna punch u. that is all. izzie should've decked u by now. ) #( GEORGE BABE IDEK HOW UR STILL STANDING U GET TRAUMATIZED EVERY EPISODE ) #( i'm not even on episode five yet this has been a rollercoaster )

[woodnrust]

I should treat myself <- does not have the time nor money to treat myself

#jelly.txt #first and foremost i NEED to see a professional ballet i'm so serious i miss the feeling of sitting in a huge fancy theatre #listening to great music and watching people dancing gracefully but SECONDLY i just once in my life would like to #get my nails done professionally at a salon because i'm always doing it myself and i love the look of metallic cat-eye polish #and i do own a bottle but watching how somebody else does it first certainly has its appeal #especially since i KNOW that it's always gorgeous when done right . but yeah those are like #the only two relaxing activities that i really wanna do but alas . they're both expensive :( #but hopefully by next year i'll have a license and maybe even a job so i could save up some of my money for this kind of thing...

[morecreditthanideserve]

I nicked my ankle pretty bad and couldn't find a bandaid so now im using a piece of gauze and duct tape as a makeshift one

#clearly I make sound medical decisions #as you've seen if you've followed my saga this week #I'm also a licensed medical professional #so take that as you will

[noisepartythumpingmusic]

This quote from a recently published book for mental health professionals on the topic of assessing adult Autistic people is something that is important for many people to read.

"Within the Autistic community, self-identification is fully accepted as valid. For example, to access community-led support or social groups, if someone says they are Autistic, they are Autistic. Many Autistic people say that you don't need to go to a doctor to be told you are gay, so why would you need to be told you are Autistic?"

pg 70 from The Adult Autist Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiveristy-Affirmative Approach by Hartman, O'Donnell-Killen, Doyle, Kavanagh, Day and Azevedo (2023)

#autism #I'm a licensed mental health professional #I'm not your mental health professional though caveat caveat caveat

[born-to-lose]

Um. Day ruined :D

#i was planning out how to tell my mom i need therapy in a way that might have convinced her to at least let me make a test appointment #but then i properly looked up the financial stuff and since i don't want to tell my insurance so i don't have anything in my health record #and i'm not sure my insurance would pay for this kind of therapy anyway i'd have to pay the sessions privately #and those are between €50 and €150 depending on area and needs of the patient so let's say €100 on average #there's no way i'll pay that because i need to save some money for when i start working and may need to commute or rent an apartment #plus i'm not done with my driver's license so the next lessons and exam fee take up a lot more money and my family's struggling financially #so i can't afford to pay over €400 per month at least right now 😃 #maybe when i have a job but for now i'll keep trying to fix myself without professional help and just based on books and websites #which is working but still i'm crying and annoyed #mel talks

[ghostsinthecellar]

have made it to 2:30 somehow gonna give mom another hour and a half if I can smell has not been smelt recently except for a tiny whiff in one corner of the basement, so I'm risking turning on the heater to try to get it back up to 60 in here before mom gets up so she won't freeze

#charlie babbles #the little space heater and some layers is more than enough for me but she runs a lot colder #smell is at this point assumed to be the heater doing something funky but I'm hoping having it on for just an hour #and then turning it off again won't burn the house down lmao #it ran for that long earlier and just made the smell - no visible smoke or flame #and if mom can handle it being 58ish in here until daylight she can message neighbor and update him and maybe he'll have a new thing to try #we know the answer is probably 'have a licensed professional inspect and work on the furnace' but that is money we very much don't have #mom mathed it today and with all of our bills we'll have $189 next month to go wherever the food stamps can't

[haleigh-sloth]

Idk how to interpret Tenko/Tomura because I feel like it's being left ambiguous on purpose (it's also something he's confused about!) I think even if they changed Shigaraki's severe repression and dissociation into full blown DID... Tomura still needs to be saved! Like, based on vestige Tenko only having the eye scar that means if the DID interpretation is true, Tomura would have "split" during the incident and either way would have been the one dealing w/ AfO's manipulation and abuse.

Sigh..."Tomura still needs to be saved!"

Yes. Saving Tenko means saving Tomura. They're the same person. One does not exist without the other. I'm a little exhausted of that take honestly.

THEY. ARE. THE. SAME.

It's really not that ambiguous. Honestly. I've pointed out a multitude of times that the "inner child" is used a LOT in BNHA.

Boku no Baby Academia.

I have talked about how to interpret it quite a few times (Here, here, and here). You're welcome to give those a read. Here are a couple of other explanations NOT by me, but pretty much align with what I've been saying, and delve into much more detail on this "inner child" trope, which is undeniably what this is (Here and Here).

I'm trying to give you options anon, because the way you're approaching it is, imo, not going to get you anywhere or land you on any conclusion you like. You're coming at this as if Tomura is going to be left behind in the dust and not saved. (And I'll touch on the DID stuff at the end because that's not a good way to come at this either). And I will reiterate what I said here, in another post explaining the Tenko/Tomura situation: Does saving Touya mean leaving Dabi in the dust to rot? No. Yet, I don't see people saying that about him? Yet he also gets the "hurt inner child" symbolism used for him as well, but for some reason this take doesn't apply to him. It shouldn't! But it shouldn't apply to Tenko either.

I'm not trying to tell you what to interpret it as, do what you want, I can't stop you. But honestly there really isn't a lot of room LEFT for open interpretation. It's pretty obvious what Tenko/Tomura is. Tenko is symbolic of the entire person's being. He is who he is.

It's as simple as this: The reason the entire person, Tomura Shigaraki/Tenko Shimura, was not FULLY absorbed by AFO, is simply because the ENTIRE person is not completely full of hatred and rage. That tiny part of his mind/heart/soul however you wanna classify all of this, is being symbolized by Tenko. Because Tenko was the identity this person was born with, and represents the part of this person's life before AFO gaslit him into believing that he was this destruction incarnate and had no hope for a happy life, because, well, destruction incarnate who destroys everything he touches--including people he cares about (his family), as well as any chance he will ever have of being saved (destroying society). That's what Tomura/Tenko believes about himself, and until that belief is washed away through an outside influence, he can't be saved at all.

Now for your take on DID. I have a couple of issues with it but let's start with this:

"I think even if they changed Shigaraki's severe repression and dissociation into full blown DID... Tomura still needs to be saved! Like, based on vestige Tenko only having the eye scar that means if the DID interpretation is true, Tomura would have "split" during the incident and either way would have been the one dealing w/ AfO's manipulation and abuse."

I have a problem with this. This is implying that one part of Shigaraki is experiencing the abuse while the other is not. That is not even applicable to irl DID. When a person experiences trauma, it affects all aspects of a person. This sounds like you're saying there are two brains within this person and while one brain is taking a nap, the other is dealing with the abuse. One brain, one person, one experience.

The very fact that Tenko is being used to symbolize Shigaraki's heart is pretty clear cut proof showing that this isn't freaking DID lol. Tenko remains unaffected and continues to represent the part of Shigaraki that isn't full of hate, hence keeping him from fully disappearing into AFO, leaving there leeway for someone to pull the entire person OUT of this possession. If this were going to be a clinical representation of this disorder, one part of Shigaraki would not be shown to remain unaffected. The shut away identity in a person with DID IS affected, that part adjusts to the trauma just like the part of them that is front and center. It just doesn't work that way where one gets off scot free and the other takes the brunt.

This is the second issue that follows up on that--don't assign diagnostic labels and then interpret canon through that lens. Do not. You will not find answers, because this isn't a clinical study nor a clinical representation. Headcanons are fine and projecting is fine! Absolutely, project away. It's how we cope. But trying to analyze the material as if it were canon, when it's honestly not, is not going to land you anywhere. I will hand it over to Horikoshi for displaying mental illness and trauma really well through his characters, and especially familial trauma and the effects it leaves on the family members (Todorokis and Shimuras), but I'm not going to assume he's got an open DSM-V on his drawing desk.

Here's the other thing--this "split" has not been an ongoing obstacle for Shigaraki. This "split" hasn't been a part of his character's struggles with his identity and who he really is. That struggle lied with uncovering his memories, and that already happened. When he recovered his memories, he just recovered them. And then spiraled even more. He adjusted to the "new" information and kept going. He hasn't been dealing with a "split" the entire story, as if to show that he is dealing with a separate part of himself that he is fighting to bring out, or keep at bay. The "split" in identities only became a thing at ALL when the literal possession started happening. And there are LITERALLY TWO PEOPLE INSIDE. So again, yet another reason this is just...not a representation of DID. It's just not. Of course there are aspects of it there--absolutely. But those little aspects ONLY started manifesting when literally more than one whole person was occupying a body. During the war arc you see Shigaraki reflect on his memories multiple times, but he doesn't revert back to his 5 year old self.

5 year old Tenko is a representation--nothing more. There isn't a literal 5 year old sitting in the vestige with a physical body waiting to be pulled out. He just represents the very fact that he can still be saved from AFO, and saved from himself. It shows that there is a part of him that knows he isn't good for nothing but destruction, knows he didn't legit murder his family, knows he didn't want them to die, knows he wasn't born to just kill. Those beliefs are there buried deep down, they just need to be validated. Pulled out from the bottom of the ocean that is AFO's gaslighting and psychological torment inflicted on him.

So not to be rude, really, but I'm going to have to kindly reject your interpretation.

I genuinely don't know why people are looking for a way to explain away Tenko though? The reason is pretty clear and simple for why he's there. Why do people keep looking for ways to try to make it make sense that "saving Tenko means leaving Tomura behind?" Why, honestly I'm at a loss.

The only people I see who don't like the Tenko situation are the people who don't want the villains saved at all, and the people who want this fanon version of Shigaraki that doesn't exist so they can see him, like fight AFO off and take back his agency (that he never had to begin with honestly) and just carry the League off bridal style into the sunset. Idk tbh but the attempts at making the Tenko symbolism out to be this negative force in Shigaraki's arc are exhausting to read.

Not saying anon is doing that but....tbh idk why there are so many attempts at explaining Tenko away to be something he's not. He's not taking Tomura away from us either. Yeah idk where that comes from but it's a take floating around out there.

I'm fairly certain that we will see more 5 year old Tenko, and 5 year old Izuku, since we've seen them both on screen together already:

So I'm hoping that maybe all of this "Tomura won't be saved if Tenko is the one who is saved" bullshit dissipates when we finally follow up on this lol.

#bnha #boku no hero academia #anonymous #bnha asks #shigaraki tomura #shimura tenko #i hope this wasn't rude but i'm sure there are parts that are snippy #but i've literally explained my interpretation several times #hence the 4 linked posts #also i get bothered by people trying to diagnose characters based on their liking #and then interpreting them through that lens as if it's canon??? #don't do that guys #please #horikoshi is not a trained mental health professional--i'm led to assume #he just likes making his characters suffer like a lot #but yeah don't diagnose characters it's not going to get you anywhere when analyzing #i'm a licensed clinician and even i don't do this lmao

[caimitos]

my most self indulgent hc that is closest to my heart and haven't talked about in years is vespa ilkay filipino (her eyes have a rage you only see in 3rd world med students)

#when u grow up in a place where going into healthcare is a ticket out of ur shithole country that exports 10000s f healthcare workers yearly #but only if you're a nurse or some other profession that can still get ordered around in hospitals #the amount of MDs i know who tried working abroad thn got their degrees & licenses rejected so they had to pick up...a wildly different job #and also vespa ilkay medtech grad real in my heart of course (points at heart of it all pt 2 the blood tells you everything) #and vespa ilkays mom ofw na unti-unting hindi na umuwi also real in my third secret heart #her network of med professional friends is fucking huge bc filipinos go into pre/med expecting half the ppl to leave for richer countries #which is to say most of my friends are already making plans of leaving for the usa/australia/singapore etc etc and some are there already #most of her college batch is scattered across the galaxy they have a groupchat named 'brain drain gang class of 2XXX' or wtv the fuck #but also college swamp girl vespa is just so dear to my heart like the mental image of her #studying under a mosquito net sweating wearing a neck fan with her illegally photocopied medical textbooks from rangian recto avenue #she broke my 'characters i love are southeast asian (in general) characers i hate and want to suffer are filipinos' rule i'm sorry queen #skl.txt #rangian recto avenue whee she gets a fake marriage certificate for her and buddy for shits n giggles #guy who knows all the alumni gives her one for free when she visits they have copies of the vesbud wanted posters behind the counter

[kaleighfratkins]

i am dead set on keeping my professional life & my personal social media 100% separate & nobody really seems interested when i talk about it on twitter but sometimes I do really wanna talk about mental health & therapy! there are so many misconceptions out there & so many legitimate criticisms of mental health providers & just unaddressed societal issues like lack of access to care. before grad school i considered myself pretty knowledgeable about therapy but i still feel like i have a totally new perspective.

someday i’d love to start a collection of resources: different ways of finding a therapist, including very low-cost services or for specific populations, emphasizing that building a strong relationship is the most important part of therapy & if you really don’t click with your therapist you should have the option to see someone else, encouraging clients to question or challenge their therapists & advocate for themselves, what culturally responsive therapy is supposed to look like, helping people understand when & how to file an official ethical complaint about a therapist, basic explanations of common therapy concepts & approaches to therapy, therapeutic interventions that people can suggest to their therapist or try on their own, more information about diagnoses & how the traditional approach to diagnosis is often deeply flawed, suggested readings on different topics, etc.

still working on... finishing school & applying all that to my own life. but! manifesting i get to share that with a wider audience someday

#i am cringe but i am working in a field i'm genuinely passionate about & that can empower people when it's done well #just realized i badly need a shirt that says Ask Me About Feminist Therapy #emphasizing once again that this is Not At All A Professional Account & i'm not even licensed yet #but feel free to ask me for my opinions or suggestions for resources

[runescapegnome]

genuinely love when I say something deeply upsetting and clearly deranged in session and my therapist does the little. therapisty look down at their notes and is like. Where are we at on scheduling that psychiatric evaluation

#validition through hearing a licensed professional call you fucked up instead of just thinking maybe i'm fucked up #maybe i'm joker #anyway the answer is no buddy

[greatbigstorm]

i may or may not have bronchitis. i also may or may not have taken a medication that i'm possibly allergic to. i'll update if i'm not dead xo

#text post #hooray for the shitty healthcare system! #i'm taking medicine that my dad takes for bronchitis #and i know google isn't a Licensed Professional but google says i'm probably not allergic to this #so. here we go. #two hours in and i'm still alive #i figured that if i've survived working these last three days i'll be okay #also my mom says poison (the medicine) won't kill bad weeds (me) so she has high hopes lmao

[lothloriencosplay]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I used to buy whatever I wanted or needed for cosplay and now I had to justify to myself that it was okay to buy an $8 digital pattern lol

#being an adult sucks #but i'm making it work #i knew i'd have a couple of years of being tight on money and just gotta push through #though it would definitely help if my job paid me better #9 years and a professional license in my state and i make just above min wage

[hb-writes]

Help! I’ve had far too much family time.

#really it's been since Saturday with very little me time #like i need some me time #i need a lot of me time #if i'm reading my book it does not mean i want to have a chat #if i'm doing my ceu courses for my professional license i do NOT want to have a chat #if i am meditating or writing or doing duolingo i don't want to have a chat #basically they should assume i'm not interested in chatting #personal

[spacialrznd]

well i am now in possession of a Creature

#👻*⊱ ┇✧ ❝ paranormal activity ;; out of character ❞ #( and here on today's episode of loop's bad decision making- ) #( actually i have no regrets my brain short circuited when i felt how soft their wings were </3 i am obsessed with this fictional dragon ) #( anyways i'm super loopy [haha see what i did there] tonight so nothing besides this low effort shitpost ) #( i would've gotten around to the plotting calls i kinda forgot about earlier this week but i ended up driving to kelowna as well ) #( bc my aunt got in an accident and me and my mom were already in the area she lives in which we are usually not :v ) #( anyways i drove home wednesday and for the last two days i've been dealing with work accomodations for my injuries ) #( bc i also got in a [not severe] accident a little while back and my injuries haven't fully healed :v ) #( my boss does not seem to realize that despite the fact that three licensed medical professionals do ) #( long story short my week has been hectic and i also gotta do shit tomorrow bc my mom is also not accommodating at all lmao ) #( so i'll work on ic stuff and dming ppl about plotting either tomorrow or sunday ) #( i'm also gonna go through my followers bc i think i missed checking out a few people's blogs ) #( thanks for reading my rant </3 )