#mental illness positivity

[fella-lovin-fella]

hey i just wanted to give a shout out to people with personality disorders real quick. your disorder doesn't make you evil, it doesnt make you an abuser, and it doesnt make you unlovable. you're just as deserving of respect, care, and support as people without personality disorders. stay safe, i love you and i hope you have a happy holiday season. we're in this together <3

#also i hope you remember it's not your fault #i love you so much muah #bpd #borderline personality disorder #npd #narcissistic personality disorder #schizophrenia #aspd #histrionic pd #ocd #bpd positivity #npd positivity #ocd positivity #personality disorder #mental health #mental health awareness #mental health positivity #mental illness positivity #not mlm #dantes talking again

[recoversuggestions]

you can have a fresh start anytime. you can start again every day. every hour if you need! you’re allowed to put the past behind you. 

#suggestions #suggestion blogs #positivity #recovery #recovering #positive thinking #mental illness positivity #Mental illness recovery #self care #self love #self help

[a-systems-positivity]

if you've ever purposefully tried to deny your system/"turn it off" and it still keeps happening, your system can't be fake.

you can't subconsciously fake something while fighting against it.

#did positivity #osdd positivity #actually traumagenic #did osdd #mental illness positivity #osddid #system positivity #actually did #actually dissociative #actually osdd #polyfrag did #polyfragmented #polyfrag system #polyfrag #cdd positivity #polyfrag positivity

[pansyboybloom]

shout out to psychotic people who struggle with anger. psychotics who get angry when they’re wronged, when they're scared, when they're overstimulated, as a response to emotion. psychotics who want to hit. who want to bite. who want to hurt. who want to scream and break things. who redirect with self-harm. who struggle to keep calm and keep it together. i love you. you deserve love and care to.

#making myself a positivity post tbh #actually schizospec #actually psychotic #mental illness positivity #actually mentally ill #mental health positivity

[neuroticboyfriend]

for all the talk about impulsivity i've seen, i have seen so little about calculated self-destructiveness. i definitely have problems with impulsivity, but those are often the nail in the coffin. all of the worst that i've done to myself has been completely and utterly calculated. methodical. i'm too smart for my own good.

so if you're the same way... i want you to know i see you, and the knowing nature of your pain does not at all downplay the severity of it. using what control you have to hurt yourself can be just as dangerous and deadly as losing control entirely. and even if it doesn't reach the point of endangerment, your struggles still matter. they do. and you deserve a lot better.

#softspoonie #bpd #quiet bpd #mental health #mentally ill #mental illness #disabled #disability #neurodivergent #serious mental illness #severe mental illness #mentally ill positivity #mental illness positivity

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

You're not unlovable because you have a mental illness

#positivity #positive post #mental illness positivity #psa

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

the trend we see on social media of calling impulsive thoughts and impulsive urges intrusive thoughts only further stigmatizes actual intrusive thoughts by creating a completely fault social understanding of intrusive thoughts as something annoying and mostly harmless instead of deeply traumatizing. no, eating a leaf is not an intrusive thought and if you get angry or disgusted by the person with violent intrusive thoughts or bigoted intrusive thoughts or pedophillic intrusive thoughts you are not a mental health ally or advocate.

okay/encouraged to rb

#actuallymentallyill #mental health positivity #mental health awareness #mental illness positivity

[borderline-positivity]

I stayed in bed today, thats OK!

I wasn't super productive today, thats OK!

I mostly kept to myself today, thats OK!

It's OK to take time for yourself after a heavy week so take care of yourself dammit!

#borderline personality disorder #bpd #bpd positivity #neurodivergent #adhd #mental illness positivity #mental health positivity #mental health

[artsyaech]

going into next year, remember to keep fighting for disability and mental health rights!

[PT: going into next year, remember to keep fighting for disability and mental health rights!]

remember to:

put image IDs and plain-text on posts

tag eyestrain and flash warnings (DO NOT use #epilepsy, that puts epileptic people in more danger)

remember to tag potential triggers! (very important, i hate it when posts include my triggers and don't tag it)

remember that hyperfixating on / having a special interest in a problematic thing does NOT mean you're a bad person, as long as you acknowledge the problems with it. also, i can't believe this isn't talked about more, but a hatred for a thing can also turn into a hyperfixation / special interest! example: i had a hyperfixation on harry potter in a way that i absorbed criticisms of it and knew everything about it, but only because i wanted to be able to articulate how much i hate it and why. hyperfixation / special interest in something does not mean you like it / endorse it! (rant over)

PLEASE stop clogging up disability tags with fanfiction. yes, it's good that you're representing disabilities, but instead try tagging it with #disabled character or #disabled reader or something of the sort.

something i wanna leave in 2023, but unfortunately don't think will be going away soon is ableist / saneist slang or slang that makes light of disabilities / mental health. examples of this include: "delulu", "letting the intrusive thoughts win", "psycho", "schizo" (when referring to something that has nothing to do with schizophrenia), "bipolar" (when referring to something that has nothing to do with bipolar disorder), "sociopath", "psychopath", "narcissist" + MANY more

please stop infantilizing autistic people. i'm so tired of being treated like a baby.

c-punk is NOT an aesthetic and it is exclusively for physically disabled people. and if you're not physically disabled, call it c-punk.

uplift disabled and mentally ill voices.

below is a list of disabled creators you can support!

@my-autism-adhd-blog. summer (she/they) talks about their life as an autistic individual who has ADHD. super cool blog!

@cripplecharacters. a group of mods help answer questions about writing disabled characters. learned a lot from them.

@mogai-transcriber. (nameless) (she/he/it) describes mogai posts.

@accessmogai. reign (she/her) is a great mogai transcriber too. high quality IDs for all

@cpunkwitch. super cool witchy blog. cassandra (it/he/her/neos/none) is super cool and it's nice to hear a disabled voice in the pagan community.

@crippledpunks. cool positivity blog that talks about disability and educates on cpunk

@accessfashion. multiple mods add image descriptions to outfits. super epic stuff.

@cane-you-dig-it. disability and cpunk stuff. also just a super cool and talented individual.

@autistic-af. i wish she was my aunt, she's super sweet and her cat posts always make my day!

@crippled-peeper. relatable posts tbh.

@crippled-dinosaur. dino (it/he) talks about physical disabilities and cpunk

+ many more! feel free to add to this list

#this is the first of many posts i'll be making on stuff like this #aech rambles #disability #new year #mental illness positivity #positivity #long post

[strawberry-graveyard]

being mentally ill is not a prerequisite to being bad or abusive. yes there will always be mentally ill people who are bad, but not every abuser has a mental illness and not everyone with a mental illness will be an abuser.

hurting someone is a choice, and it has nothing to do with how your brain is wired, how high or low your empathy is, none of it. especially on the empathy front. plenty of people who have high empathy are complete assholes. plenty of people who feel a lot of guilt after hurting someone will wake up the next day and choose to do it again. meanwhile pretty much everyone i’ve met with low/no empathy has been the kindest person alive, because lacking empathy doesn’t mean you don’t know right from wrong.

you are taught what hurts people nearly every day of your life. some you learn when you’re little and some you learn as an adult. but you are taught right from wrong, and what makes you a bad person has nothing to do with things you can’t control. it entirely has to do with waking up in the morning and choosing whether you’re going to do things that hurt people or not.

and more often than not the people choosing to hurt others are entirely neurotypical. so stop trying to explain away other people’s horrible decisions with mental illnesses you know nothing about. you are not a therapist, and your therapist knows nothing about people they do not counsel. you and the people in your life have no say in whether your abusive ex is a narcissist. no say in whether your racist qanon uncle is delusional. no say in whether your transphobic aunt is paranoid.

because when you claim these things with no knowledge of what you’re talking about you deflect from the real issues at hand. you continue to push away the term emotional abuse when you call your abuser a narcissist. you continue to push away systemic bigotry. you continue to push away weaponized loneliness. weaponized incompetence. the lack of critical thinking skills, or the decline of media literacy.

none of these have any link to mental illness, you just want an excuse to hurt others. in fact you’re the perfect example of the choice to be bad, because you choose to be ableist every time you throw mental illness around as an insult, as something inherently tied to being horrible. so i implore you to choose to be a little bit better today. at least choose to try.

#here lies courtney #mental illness positivity

[nonbinarymlm]

Mentally ill mlm... This one goes out to you. You're great and worthwhile the way you are

#loving queue #mlm #gay men #bi men #queer men #nonbinary mlm #trans mlm #mental illness #neurodivergence #positivity #mental illness positivity #people treat mental illness like it's such a dirty word and mlm like we're dirty #but we're not #we're good

[spidersflags]

Panic Disorder flag

alt flags requested by anon!

For those with Panic Disorder/Panic Syndrome! This disorder is associated with sudden fear and anxiety. If you'd like to learn more about this, I suggest looking it up. I couldn't pick between the two flags, so I made both!

[id: both flags have the same color palette/design, though the first is horizontally striped, and the second is vertically striped. the first stripe is lightish cool gray, which is followed by a double thick medium cool gray stripe. then there's a darker cool gray stripe. the middle stripe is very pale green, and then there's another darker cool gray stripe, a double thick medium cool gray stripe, and finally a lightish cool gray. in the center of both flags there's an 8-pointed pale yellow star, the borders of which are dark gray.]

#flag coining #flags #alt flag #panic disorder #panic syndrome #neurodivergent #nd positivity #spidersflags #transx fuck off #flag making #flag design #flag #neurodiverse stuff #neurodiversity #mental illness #mental illness positivity

[a-systems-positivity]

If you were faking, you wouldn't keep finding more stuff to be upset about!

If it was all fake, you wouldn't lie in a pool of your own tears, unable to stop derealizing/depersonalizing because of flashbacks.

If it was all fake it wouldn't hurt like this.

#did positivity #osdd positivity #more like bittersweet truth??? #actually traumagenic #did osdd #actuallytraumatized #dissoziative identitätsstörung #mental illness positivity #system positivity #traumagenic system #polyfrag system #polyfragmented #polyfrag #ptsd recovery #actually cptsd #actually ptsd #actually did #actually osdd #actually dissociative #partielle dissoziative identitätsstörung #complex dissociative disorder #dissociative identity disorder #otherwise specified dissociative disorder #dissociative system #osddid #did system #osdd system

[pansyboybloom]

treating people with love can be so hard and it makes you sexier and cooler and hotter than everyone else when you put in the effort to do it anyways

#mental health #mental healthy positivity #mental illness positivity #positivity

[npd-hottakes]

Symptoms aren't a choice, and you don't have the right to dislike someone just because they don't wanna mask their symptoms. If you think someone's symptoms are evil, you're the evil one.

#Mental illness #mental illness positivity #Npd #npd positivity #narcissistic personality disorder #Cluster b #Cluster b positivity #unpopular opinion #Hot take #Npd hot take

[littlemelonberry]

it's ok to love your mental illness

it's okay to feel like it's an inseparable part of you

it's okay to feel like you wouldn't be alive without it

it's okay to be proud of being mentally ill

it's okay to prioritize relationships (friendly, romantic, familial, whatever) that encourage or accept your mental illness

it's okay to find comfort or escapism in your mental illness

it's okay to feel distressed or unlike yourself when your symptoms die down

it's okay to want to make your symptoms worse because that's the only version of you that you can recognize

it's okay to be unpalatable to "normal" people.

it's okay to be confusing or impossible to understand.

it's okay if you lose sight of what is or isn't healthy for you specifically

it's okay if you have to restart a billion times because you keep relapsing

it's okay to feel worthless

it's okay to need more attention that you could realistically get at that moment

it's okay to be mentally ill.

#mental illness #mentally ill #mental illness positivity #mental health #melonmarkings #having some thoughts tonight