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spaciousgraveyard · 2 years
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ARFID is a type of eating disorder and is not as well know as anorexia or bulimia. ARFID can be defined as eating or food disturbances such as lack of interest in food or eating, avoidance based upon sensory characteristics of food or concern about aversive effects of eating, basically this type of eating disorder does not revolve around body image and weight gain.
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altethereal · 7 months
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Who am I to you?
The way you make me feel isn’t love regardless of you saying it is.
Your opinions are your own not everyone else’s. Your way is not the only way. It is the only way you can control from all aspects.
Arguing constantly but you call it debating.
Claiming what you read/study isn’t changing you but I, on the outside see you are not the man I fell in love with. Only a husk of that man I loved remains, I see it in every fight we have.
We are who we are. I am mentally fucked in every which way but north (my only light, Family.)
I am not perfect by any means. My mental illnesses haunts & shapes my very life. My daily life. Day by day, I survive hoping to gain the courage to stick a gun in my mouth & call it.
I’m too dark for you. Too deeply wounded, trauma is surface level, always creeping, always waiting to strike.
Our families dislike each other due to your treatment of me & mine of you. Both sides have every right because we pull them in. Involving them because we don’t know what we are doing.
What are we doing? We are drowning from the state of the economy. Everything costs more than we have which will start more arguments about what necessities we all truly need.
I hate that you are more my child than my partner. I’m sure you feel the same just in different ways.
I hate how controlling you are. I hate how dishonest you can be. I hate how you make the rules. I hate that you treat me like a child when you are no better, in no way in the right for the many things you have said.
I hate how selfish you are. I hate how inconsiderate you are towards me and my family when they don’t know the whole story, just what you decide to tell them & paint me to be the villain.
I hate that you forget me even when I’m with you. I hate that you created an aggressive dog due to not listening to me & going behind my back to do those things I asked you not to do.
I hate that you never hear me. I hate that you cause 80% of my mental health breakdowns.
I hate that you tried to be my doctor and convince me to wean off the meds (Celexa) & succeeded than dropped me the moment you could no longer support the medical flowers it took to get me down to almost nothing. Those last few weeks of weaning nearly ended me but even today you tell me I don’t need to be on meds for my mental disorders. I hate that you think you are above everyone because you don’t suffer from mental illness. For the record, You are the one still sleeping, not me. The meds do not hinder my ability to be who I am. They just take away some of the static that is the colossal maze that is my brain.
I hate that you treat my mom.. my widowed mother like shit. — I dare say you are almost as bad as the assholes that I’ve cursed.
I hate that you constantly make false promises. I hate how you make me feel like a burden.
I hate how you make my mom pay for just as much as you do when you make twice her amount. I hate how you tell me to tell my family that you aren’t this person they think you are but they are only hearing what you’ve done. As I stated earlier, What’s done is done.
I hate that you never defend me to your family when they’ve called me names for reasons I still don’t understand. They have attacked me mentally because of your actions on more than one occasion.
I hate that you have personally attacked me. I hate that you’ve put your hands on me. I hate that you run away when things get hard. I hate that you twist it & make me out to be crazy.
You knew from the beginning who I was. I have not changed. I try to be better every day but as we all know depression creeps in & steals the happiness & joy & replaces it with dark, ominous, traumatic memories, & thoughts.
I guess I’m asking after all this; Knowing who I am, now finally reading some of what I’ve been feeling for the past year to the present, maybe you finally hear me. Or maybe I’ll slowly disappear. It’s a mystery.
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dish-boy · 2 years
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There really is something about being the queer mentally ill child of immigrant parents that makes it so that I can’t seem to be able to connect with my white queer friends. The cultural significance of family and my inability to break ties with them, the conformist mentality that my parents were forced to grow up with all influences how I interact with my identity. It’s like I love my parents on a conceptual level but I can’t stand being around them most of the time.
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somesecretpie · 10 days
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Greetings bugs and worms!
This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)
If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.
The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!
Reblog to teach your followers about OCD
(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)
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*mom voice* You can get these words back when you know what they mean
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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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prokopetz · 4 months
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The existence of the winter solstice is a great thing in principle because misery really is easier to bear when you know for a fact that it won't last forever, but the fact that it's on a precise timetable makes it weird. Knowing that it's going to keep on getting steadily worse for exactly nine days and fourteen hours and not a moment longer creates some strange behavioural incentives, is what I mean to say.
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punpkinpi · 3 months
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Recently saw an insta vid where a musician was singing lyrics that described their intrusive thoughts as a person with OCD, and in the comments every so often there would be people writing like "bro what is this 🤨🤨" and "keep this between you and your therapist dont post it on the internet" and it just further fueled my belief that OCD symptoms and intrusive thoughts need to be talked about more because a majority of the struggle with the disorder is the shame surrounding its symptoms. OCD is not able to be easily romanticized or 'quirky'fied like other disorders or neurodivergencies have been*, and as a result its symptoms are more quickly met with disgust or repulsion.
Other people in the comments were thanking OP because it captured the struggle of real intrusive thoughts instead of impulsive ones. Impulsive thoughts are more of the 'I'm gonna dye my hair randomly on a thursday night' thoughts vs the intrusive 'what if I drove my car into that family and suddenly killed us both' thoughts, the latter of which make OCD as a disorder truly debilitating. And the people that immediately assign bad morals to intrusive thoughts? They only further condemn people with OCD to never wanting to talk about the symptoms they've already been struggling with shame about.
I feel it needs to be made more blatantly explained to the public that OCD intrusive thoughts aren't desire based. They're fear and disgust based. You fear hurting anyone so badly your mind can't stop thinking about what if you hurt someone. You fear molesting anyone so you never want to even touch anyone. Your mind fixates on the 'what ifs' and distorts them into the idea that, because you think this way, you must want to act this way--when the reality is the exact opposite.
If a person with OCD ever confides to you one of their intrusive thoughts and you feel a knee-jerk reaction of disgust towards them, it needs to be reiterated that:
1. the person does not want to be thinking about this, their brain is legit hardwired to make those thoughts pop up
2. the person themselves also feels this disgust, often intensely, and they very likely resent themselves for ever thinking it
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3. they have no desire to enact the intrusive thought, because its intrusive nature hinges on the person's fears and dislikes.
*And to clarify what I mean by romanticization and 'quirk'-ifying, I do not mean to imply that romanticizing any disorder or condition is inherently a good thing. It's only to state that conditions like anxiety and ADHD have been made such common/'trendy' topics recently that they're less taboo to speak about--leading to more people talking about their struggles with it, and helping others realize they might have it too and aren't alone. Because certain OCD traits aren't as marketable (obviously) a lot of those with it are left rather isolated.
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mariposas8494 · 5 months
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Fuck yeah it has
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recoverr · 4 months
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you're not a monster. you're you. you're flawed, yes, but you're also incredibly alive. just human. real. capable of great things, capable of change and growth, too. don't define yourself by the inner critic lashing out at you. you're not your worst moments.
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spaciousgraveyard · 1 year
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Hey sorry I haven't posted in a while but my mental health was shit and now I'm in the process of getting diagnosed with autism and holy shit is it expensive
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altethereal · 1 year
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Panic.
Depression.
(Not enough coping mechanisms).
Nothing works.
Panic.
Dissociation.
Numb.
Pain.
Panic.
Depression.
Worry.
Anxiety.
ADHD.
ADHD.
ADHD.
Panic.
(New methods tried & failed).
Depression.
Hopelessness.
(Random Shift in Energy).
Euphoria.
Excitement.
Overstimulation.
Insomnia.
Panic.
Panic.
Panic.
Hopelessness.
Worry.
Anxiety.
Panic.
Depression.
Dissociation.
Lost.
Empty.
Overwhelmed.
Panic.
Panic.
Panic.
Panic.
Depression.
Anxiety.
Panic.
Hopelessness.
Lost.
A never ending cycle.
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kitten-forward · 5 months
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the-suicide-effect · 6 months
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noriartz · 5 months
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Normalize stimming! How do you stim? I pinch my hands like a crab when im excited~
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