#actually schizophrenia

[crash-freak]

The internet honestly and truly despises schizophrenic people/people with psychosis. They despise our existence. So many “mental health” advocates actively demonize psychosis.

People refuse to listen to us when we tell them not to use “delulu”. They can understand why using mental health terms incorrectly is damaging. They can understand not to say “intrusive thoughts” when they mean impulsive thoughts. They understand why saying “I’m so OCD” when not describing OCD is wrong. They are actively refusing to understand why not to use delulu.

I’ve had people tell me, when describing why not to say delulu, that it’s not a big deal. It’s not a big deal to you. You’re not the one suffering. And even then, you don’t need to personally suffer in order to understand why something is harmful. You should not need to see yourself/someone in your life suffer to have understanding for those who do. Your understanding should not be based on proximity to the self, ESPECIALLY if you consider yourself a mental health advocate.

And if they don’t use “delulu”, then they’ll often describe someone they’re morally opposed/bigoted as delusional. As if being delusional is some sort of moral failure.

Not to mention how if someone so much as mentions their psychosis, they’ll get bombarded with “I’m in your walls” jokes. If someone hears that a person experiences psychosis, they will actively attempt to trigger that person’s psychosis.

They hate us. The internet hates us. I’ve grown up on the internet seeing psychosis demonized my entire life.

#this also applies to other demonized disorders #i know cluster b people can experience delusions too #psychosis #delusional #actually delusional #actually psychotic #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #schizospec #actually schizophrenic #actually schizospec #actually schizophrenia #mental health #mental health awareness

[221bluescarf]

#polls #psychosis #psychotic episode #schizospec #schizoaffective #schizophrenia #actuallybipolar #mental illness #actually schizophrenia #actually schizoaffective

[thejewishphd]

I'm slowly beginning to realize that some things are hallucinations. I started talking to an older man today while I was walking my dog and I knew he wasn't real when he reached to pet my dog and my dog didn't start wagging his tail or anything like he normally would if someone were going to pet him

#actually schizophrenia

[isabellascarlett1]

There’s nothing inherently “scary” about someone talking to themself in public.

There’s nothing “scary” about someone rocking back and forth in public.

There’s nothing “scary” about someone pacing back and forth in public.

Some of y’all are just ableist.

#Disability #Disabled #Multiply Disabled #Disabilities #Disability Rights #Disability Justice #Schizophrenia #Actually Schizophrenic #Autistic #Autism #Actually Autistic #Psychosis #Psychotic #Psychosis Awareness #Schizophrenia Awareness #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Neurodiverse #Autism Awareness #Mad Liberation #Mental Illness #Mental Illnesses #Mentally Ill #Disability Awareness #Mental Health #Mental Health Awareness #Anti Ableism #Anti Ableist

[gunkmusher]

i wish the world was a more gentle place to psychotic people

#psychotic #actually psychotic #psychosis #schizophrenia

[madpunks]

please include schizospectrum people in your mental health positivity post. please actually include schizophrenic, schizoaffective, schizotypal, schizoid and other psychotic people. still to this day, i get called dangerous for being schizophrenic. my last ex told me they "knew" i would lash out and become dangerous and that they shouldn't have dated me specifically because i'm schizophrenic. i never lashed out to hurt them, by the way, but they routinely hurt me.

schizospectrum disorders do not make someone inherently dangerous. people still believe this firmly. our fight isn't over we still have to continue to speak about schizospec people and how unfairly we are treated. we are dehumanized instantly the second people find out about our conditions. we are treated like ticking time bombs. people openly admit that we are scaring them when we talk about our psychosis and how it affects us.

people tell us to calm down and that our delusions aren't real and that we're overreacting. people give reality check us and force us to try to think in ways that scare us. people refuse to trust our own accounts of our own lives and what is happening to us, even when we are not actively delusional or hallucinating. people infantilize us and treat us like we're stupid and have zero autonomy.

we are not dangerous. we are not scary. we are literally just existing in a world that refuses to accept us. please keep talking about schizospectrum struggles and how we need to be seen as just another human, just like anyone else. we can be as unique and varied as anyone else with any other neurotype. we are not all the same person, and we are not inherently dangerous or scary.

#schizophrenia #schizoaffective disorder #schizoaffective #schizoid personality disorder #schizoid #schizotypal #schizotypal personality disorder #schizo spectrum #schizospec #schizophrenic #actually schizophrenic #neurodivergence #mental health #neurodivergent #mental illness #mental health awareness #neurodiversity #neuropunk #madpunk #our writing #psychotic disorder #psychosis #psychotic

[twisted-rat-king]

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

#schizophrenic #schizophrenia #actually schizophrenic #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #actually neurodivergent #mentally ill #actually mentally ill #hallucination #hallucinations

[frogsforthefrogwar]

We love people with low and no empathy here!

#low empathy #no empathy #autism #actually psychotic #actually autistic #psycotic #autistic #npd positivity #npd #bpd #hpd #aspd #cluster b #schizophrenia

[mayasaura]

I don't wanna further hijack that poor poll, but the thing about Harrow's schizophrenia is that it's canon. The author has confirmed it, and shared that it's based on her own experience.

It's a pretty obscure bit of canon, so of course there's no shame in not already knowing, but that's why I'm so obnoxiously persistent about letting people know.

Whatever else is up with Harrow, autism or cptsd or any number of likely headcanons, she is also schizophrenic. I feel like that's too important to be handwaved away as a difference of opinion.

#like of course not everyone knows I'm not the kind of asshole who gets mad about someone not having heard about an unrecorded con panel #not knowing is one thing #erasing or ignoring that aspect of her is something completely different #like yeah she's incredibly relateable in that way #and I know how comforting it can be to project your own dx onto someone and go 'wow shes just like me fr' #but I really feel like doing that re: Harrow's schizophrenia is a huge lost opportunity for growth #and I hate that the takeaway for so many people is 'Harrow is autistic' #and not 'oh cool didn't know autism and schizophrenia had so much overlap in experience' #relate to psychotic people without flinching challenge #anyway. tl;dr: #if you didn't already know then I have the coolest new fun fact about Harrow to share with you!! #if you do already know but have elicted to ignore it then a little bit fuck you actually #but I will ALWAYS assume someone didn't know before assuming they're being a dick #the locked tomb #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth

[crash-freak]

To schizospecs (who experience hallucinations) who have poor eyesight and wear glasses or contacts: Are your visual hallucinations blurry or blurry around the edges? I’m near sighted and my hallucinations are sometimes blurry or blurry around the edges, even when wearing my glasses.

#does this happen to anyone else? #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #schizospec #schizo spectrum #actually schizophrenia #actually schizophrenic #actually schizospec

[ooppo]

Don't forget us this disability awareness month!

#Bipolar disorder #BAD #bipolar affective disorder #schizophrenia #mental health #actually bipolar #disability month

[giritina]

(Edit: just to be clear I don't mean to emphasize this girl with the tattoo as the primary perpetrator if this stuff. Idk her story, it's in kind of bad taste but there's more to this than a tattoo)

I saw this great video discussing a critique of "lobotomycore"/"lobotomy chic" and the erasure of the racist history of lobotomies.

I can't add further on the subject of race, but as a person with schizotypal I did connect it with this image

(Source, though I have not verified it by sifting through the archive)

"Lobotomy chic" and the humor surrounding it is used so often by people who I've seen have zero empathy for schizophrenic people. For disables people generally.

Even just looking at how they treat an actual lobotomy victim, Rosemary Kennedy, even when she's that archetypical 40s white woman. Her disability is erased.

Here's a popular tiktok about her. No context, just images of her younger self and her older self. Simply "she was normal, glamorous, and then she became strange, disabled." Oftentimes, her intellectual disability is treated more as a conspiracy theory than a fact of her not receiving enough oxygen at birth. People are happy to relate to her as a ~poorly behaved woman~, but not as an intellectually disabled one.

It just reminds me how this has become a sort of coquetteish phrase and a universal joke that erases everything except the low support needs disabled white woman's experience. The idea that for your eccentricities, you'd be at risk. That you might be the only one at risk, so there's no need for solidarity with the intellectually disabled, the schizophrenic and psychotic, anyone with profound or uncomfortable disabilities. Times ten thousand if those disabled people are black. And god forbid they are disabled, black, AND homeless.

#disability theory #schizophrenia #actually schizophrenic #schizospectrum #disability rights #disability justice #long post #psychiatric abuse tw #racial abuse tw #ableism tw #medical abuse tw

[autopsyfreak]

my anhedonia is eating me alive so i’m making these mental illness memes to cope

#actually aspd #actually npd #aspd #npd #clusterb #actually mentally ill #actually bpd #actuallyaspd #actuallynpd #cluster b #bpd #actuallybpd #actually schizophrenic #actually delusional #actually borderline #actually obsessive #actually autistic #actually antisocial #actually narcissistic #schizophrenia #schizospec #psychotic spectrum #did #osdd #ocd #actually pocd #mental illness #cluster b personality disorder #cluster b memes #npd meme

[cartoonscientist]

psa: not every weird esoteric thing a schizophrenic person does is creepy, threatening, or indicative of a mental downspiral. sometimes we’re just stimming or engaging in our interests and enjoying ourselves like any other neurodivergent person! sometimes it involves stuff that can look spooky, like making little talismans or wandering around in the dark or taking strange-looking notes, but unless we’re visibly distressed we’re probably just having fun!

#psa #ableism #schizophrenia #actually schizophrenic #neurodivergent

[madpunks]

we are so ableist about memory. people with good memory take for granted the fact that they can recall as much as they can, and use that to taunt, guilt and threaten people with memory issues. many neurotypes and mental illnesses cause memory lapses. traumatic brain injuries can cause memory lapses. brain cancer can cause memory lapses.

even if your memory is good, it's not right to guilt someone because they can't remember something. trust me, people with memory problems are desperately trying to remember: it's just that we literally can't. it is a very literal "i can't remember".

#adhd #psychosis #psychotic disorders #autism #memory problems #memory issues #did #dissociative identity disorder #dpdr #osdd #mental health #neurodivergences #schizophrenia #schizohprenic #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually schizophrenic #depression #our writing

[twisted-rat-king]

so sick of seeing "their poor parents" in regards to someone who is delusional, psychotic, or otherwise "not normal." any time the topic comes up, someone's there to drop that steaming pile of shit. i promise you, the caretakers aren't suffering half as much as the person they're caring for. but nobody talks about that part.

#tw ableism #ableism #sanism #schizophrenia #autism #actually psychotic #neurodivergent #actually neurodiverse #actually neurodivergent #disabled #actually disabled #did #osdd did #high support needs #medium support needs #mid support needs #-Bun #-TL