#mental illness psa

[sparkles-and-trash]

Sometimes it feels like people kinda forget your pain when it’s chronic.

When someone healthy/able bodied gets sick or injured, people will pour out their support and understanding right away, which is good, obviously.

But after a while, people get tired of hearing about it.

They get tired of having to work around it, tired of having to be understanding.

But just because your empathy fades, doesn’t mean our pain and grief does.

I’m so, so tired of my pain. Of having to be understood. Of not having any chance to have a proper career, or dreams, or relationship.

I’m tired of my hands not working enough for me to write, draw and craft, which is what is normally keeping me going.

They just keep getting worse.

I’m tired of the pains related to my endometriosis and pcos making me unable to eat properly, get any exercise, and for making me bedridden more and more these days.

I’m tired of having to beg for support in what little buisniess I manage to make sure I survive during my rough recovery periods after surgeries and bad flare up’s.

I’m tired of knowing my life will not be a long one.

I’m tired of complaining, of being in pain, of grieving, of feeling like a burden.

There are no breaks for me.

That doesn’t mean I get used to it. I will never be used to it.

And I think I should be allowed to talk about all of this without feeling like a burden.

I probably won’t ever get to that point, but this is me trying to get there.

By being open and honest, and hoping that at least one person takes the time to read.

If you’re still here, still reading, thank you. It means the world.

Be kind to those around you who are like me.

We’re not happy about our situations, either, but having people willing to stick around and listen makes it a little easier to survive.

Thank you ❤️‍🩹

#chronic illness #chronic illness awareness #chronic illness psa #chronic illness support #disabilties #disability #lupus #lupusawareness #living with lupus #endometriosis #pcos #cfs #scoliosis #chronic migraine #chronic mental illness #mentalheathawareness #irl tag #personal

[digital-medic]

Thank to @letstalk.mentalhealth [Instagram] for the graphic!

#medicine #medical #nurse #mental health #mental illness #mentalheathawareness #positive mental attitude #love #anger #fear #passion #regret #satisfaction #feelings #emotional intelligence #emt #public health #PSA #psychology #psychotherapy #psychologist

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

You're not unlovable because you have a mental illness

#positivity #positive post #mental illness positivity #psa

[seventh-district]

OCD will literally remove your brain's ability to register when a task is Complete and then create 10,000 incredibly ridiculous and extremely specific rules for you to follow in every single aspect of your life (to keep you safe, of course, it tells you.) and then tells you that if you don’t do them Correctly and Completely every single time it tells you to (it tells you countless times per day) then the Entire Fucking World Will End and then it’ll do this fucked up thing where it makes you believe that nonsense.

and then people that don’t have it will make silly little jokes about being soooooo OCD and make t-shirts with fun little acronyms on them like Obsessive Coffee Disorder and tell you how much they like it when things are organized and clean, too!!

and then you’re supposed to just. laugh. like you haven’t been robbed of your entire being and potential and been taken over by a mind and life altering disability

#PSA: don’t fucking tell me to Seek Therapy or Try Medication. i am Aware. i have Tried. it isn’t that fucking simple #and this is my blog. i’ll complain about my illnesses all i want to. if you don’t like it i strongly encourage you to unfollow me #ocd #actually ocd #cw ocd #cw mental illness #mental health stuff #Seven.txt #Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is actually SO goddamn insidious. and only ppl that have lived with it will understand that #it’s a terrible terrible thing. to have something ruin your entire life under the guise of keeping you safe #it’s like being abused by your own mind and i don’t say that lightly #okay. stopped crying long enough to get this post out of my brain and onto my blog #gonna put Walking Disaster on loop and return to my Mental Illness Floor Time now #if no one hears from me for a little while it’s not personal i just. need to not be a Person right now. i’m so tired

[valoale]

Hi everyone, Vee here 🫶🏻

I’m sorry for disappearing for a month without a notice and I have worried some people with my absence, but I’m still here and I’m not going anywhere anytime soon

I just wanted to let you all know that I’m alive and haven’t gone anywhere, I just needed some space and time to deal with the very difficult situation I’m going through right now with my health, both mental and physical, and life has gotten too overwhelming. I’ll be okay once again eventually, I suppose.

My body is failing me and my mind is following it, and it’s been hard to cope.

I am also sorry to also disappoint you since I have no art to share nor have I any wips underway and I don’t know when will I get anything done or if at all. I’m experiencing a severe burnout and along the way I’ve lost the joy of creating. I do hope it’ll eventually find back to me, I don’t know when or if it will, but I hope it will.

I hope you all are doing well ❤️‍🩹

#you’re all in my thoughts #psa #vee talks #delete later #cw: chronic illness #cw: mental illness

[your-older-brother-figure]

You can cry.

I don't care what they said.

You're a human.

You're allowed to cry.

#in case you needed to hear this #life advice #lgbtq #lgbtq community #important psa #lgbtqiia+ #psa #reblog to save a life #stuff nobody tells you #life tips #adulting #neurodivergence #ND #autism #adhd #neurospicy #mental illness #mental heath awareness #your older brother figure

[chaos-in-one]

Oh my god my fellow psych majors need to pull their heads out of their asses

Being a psych major is not the same as being a professional in the psych field. You are still studying to be one, you do not have your degree yet.

Being a psych major does not mean you know as much as, let alone better than, the actual professionals.

Being a psych major does not mean you are a specialist who is an authority on any specific disorder. Hell, having a degree does not even mean that. Unless you are an actual specialist, you do not know better than the people who specialize in that disorder.

Being a psych major does not make you an authority on what people have going on in their brains. You are not a professional yet.

Being a psych major does not mean you are automatically right on anything psychology related. There is a reason you do not have a degree yet.

Psych majors cannot determine who has what disorders. You are not licensed to make a diagnosis, because you are still a student, not a professional.

You cannot know what is going on in a strangers brain just because you major in psych. Even licensed professionals cannot do that. No matter how long they studied, or have been working in psych. There is a reason the diagnostic process for most disorders takes so long. So you, as someone who does not even have a degree yet, definitely cannot make that call where professionals cannot.

And, most importantly, being a psych major does NOT give you a free pass to be an asshole to mentally ill people. In fact, the opposite, really. People like them are the exact type of person you will be treating once you get your degree. Mentally ill people like that entrust psych professionals with their wellbeing. If you cannot be decent to mentally ill people that you do not even know, you should not be treating their mental health.

#I already got my application filled out for college to go into psych #and sometimes seeing how other people going into psych act really makes me question my choices #so many of them are so far up their own asses #and also VERY CLEARLY do not actually give a shit about mentally ill people #which makes me feel really bad for any future patients of theirs with anything more complex than the most accepted shit #honestly with some of them I hope they don't get their degree for the sake of the mentally ill people they would be treating #because some of them do NOT treat them with basic decensy #psych major #psychology #psychology major #ableism #ableism in the psych field #rant #psa

[womanofwords]

To the people on this hellsite with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues wondering if your friends hate you when you don't respond or flake out on social events, they don't. They really don't. They entirely understand that your social battery runs out at the most inopportune times and you don't want to be seen in public. Just know that when you're ready, they'll be right there, eager to celebrate your return.

And it'll be like no time passed at all.

#small psa #mental health #mental illness #i don't deserve you #signal boost

[nando161mando]

To all the Christo-fascists out there:

#christofascists #christofascism #fyi #psa #facts #fact #anti religion #dogma #atheism #atheist #philosophy #science #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #religious #religion #religious trauma #religious art #religious imagery #religion is a mental illness #religion is a scam #religion is bullshit

[venacoeurva]

I've dealt with some real weirdos and especially in the NSFW spaces I've been, people lose a lot of common sense with strangers, but especially when they're horny, or think being in sexual spaces (or other places that are less formal and more open about some things) makes your boundaries nonexistent. People can hardly act normal asking for @ s of accounts for that kind of thing, but y'know it also applies to SFW spaces as well sometimes because the average attitude in some spaces are super goddamn weird and either culty or reinforcing parasocial shit... or just really entitled, need it be access to the creators of something, or towards just other people in the circle making stuff

Remember, if some rando is thinks they're entitled to your art/writing/edits/mods/whatever you post because they like it and act like you're a cold selfish bitch who is suddenly bad at being in [whatever hobby/creative job industry you do if you do that] for having boundaries, rejecting a commission/work from them, sometimes even just telling them requests aren't open, or they violate rules you have established are needed to follow you wherever (such as age), you're allowed to give them the boot because they're annoying, wrong, and are more often then not holding a one way ticket to parasocial town and you do not want that near you.

You owe them nothing, if negative behavior like that towards you is brought on/worsened by their mental health issues/disabilities/so on, it's still not your damn job or obligation to keep them around or help them manage even if you're understanding of it because they aren't your friend or kid. That's an explanation, not excuse or get out of jail free, block em.

#vena vents #things I wish I knew when I was like. 18 #PSA I am mentally ill btw so before anyone starts on that last part. I just don't make it anyone else's problem #they are not obligated to give you a get out of jail free card for experiencing RSD or not noticing their boundaries or something #I just block if someone is giving off vibes that they would be the most annoying person ever if they ever interacted with you #which is to say not the average person in my notifs but there have been some #if you're still here you're not one of them #not art #I delight in blocking people like this unless they're clearly mentally ill bc I Get It Man but I'm not letting you violate my boundaries #Most of them have been just plain entitled teenagers and young adults tho

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #groinal response #intrusive thoughts #intrusive thinking #mental illness #mental health #actually mentally ill #mental heath awareness #mental heath support #psa #important psa

[startlitmirrorshards]

Please feel free to ask us questions! We love answering! Our hope is that by sharing our story and experience, it can help others ♡

#sms★ #stello 🌌 #psa #osddid #did #osdd #endos dni #traumagenic system #c did system #actually dissociative #actual did #actually mentally ill

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

Anybody can have a mental illness

Even your super smiley, always laughing, confident friend can be secretly dealing with something

Be there for them too

#mental illness #mental health #little psa

[impunkster-syndrome]

Finally got wind of that "pro delusion" blog and I really encourage all people who have a difficult relationship with reality to stay away from it.

Url is "prodelusion" and they advocate for encouraging delusions, like it is bodily autonomy in practice and not something potentially dangerous and could possibly harm others. There is a difference in not supporting unwelcome reality checks and encouraging reality breaks.

Do not harass them. Just block and report if applicable.

Edit: Found that they consider this transabled/"medpunk". It's ableist. Fuck you.

If anyone who does want to know how to treat people with delusions: Don't encourage them, or disprove them without consent. Both can send someone further into a delusion and can put them in more distress. Stay neutral, and focus on the person experiencing it's feelings and how to not engage with the delusion.

Section below the readmore is going to be why this is harmful, written by me who has stress and trauma based delusions and hallucinations. Please, do not read past that if it may trigger your own delusions and hallucinations. It's going to mention:

- How distressing double-bookkeeping can be at times

- What I call "persecutory erotomania," something I experience where both of those types of delusions collide

- Persecutory delusions

- DMS (Delusional Misidentification Syndrome), like clinical lycanthropy but on a less severe scale, Cotard's

It opens with short descriptions of delusions I have gotten before.

My delusions and hallucinations are stress and trauma-induced. I have to say that and that my experiences do not apply to everyone. My delusions and hallucinations tend to be episodic but it is very easy to trigger one. Sometimes it is getting a hit to the head, other times it is just stress or encountering a trauma trigger.

Some of my delusions are harmless. Being physically a character/doll/cat but stuck in the body of someone else or hexed to never be able to show anyone what I really look like.

Others are not. Believing that something outside my room is here to kill me, my abusive ex is trying to get me back through magic, thinking my arm is rotting and needs to be sawed off due to it, thinking I am a pre-contract magical girl and hearing Kyubey communicating with me telepathically to find it which would make me go out at night alone.

My percieved reality is quite different from the one in which everyone else seems to live because of this. So when I tell people that it's stressful to be aware of this but also be desperately seeking some sort of understanding, a lot of them don't understand and immediately try to disprove it to help. That, along with my delusions often having some little grain of truth to them, makes them more distressing.

So, I stopped telling people. Even when I feel like I cannot take living in two different worlds and once and like it is tearing me apart, I hardly tell anyone.

Encouraging even my harmless delusions will make me more isolated as I dive deeper into it. They aren't exactly always harmless either. As a doll, I am fragile and feel like my body will break if I am not careful. I wouldn't be able to do things.

It is not empowering to encourage delusions, especially those that cause harm or can very quickly if encouraged. It is downright dangerous.

#psa #psychosis #shizophrenia #schizospec #madpunk #mentally ill #anti radqueer #anti medpunk #delusion #hallucination #anti transabled

[khaire-traveler]

Hey, guys, so I've seen this misconception about Autism Spectrum Disorder and what is considered to be on the Spectrum.

ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, and other mental illnesses are NOT Autism nor are they on the Spectrum. To conflate these all as the same thing is harmful and can influence the type of treatment someone chooses to receive in a negative way.

People who have Autism are often diagnosed with one of these mental illnesses alongside ASD, but that does NOT mean these mental illnesses are on the Spectrum.

I believe this misconception stems from the fact that mental illnesses such as ADHD and OCD can share symptoms with ASD and are often confused with each other by professionals. However, they are NOT the same.

ASD is a separate diagnosis from ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, and other mental illnesses. Again, while they can share symptoms with each other, that does not mean these mental illnesses fall on the Autism Spectrum. These are all separate things and are diagnosed separately, although they can be co-occurring (diagnosed together).

Take care, everyone. 🧡

#psa #asd #autism spectrum disorder #mental illness

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

Question for fellow mentally ill people:

I'm not talking just feel bad for the last of a certain item on the shelf and buy 2 instead of 1 so it doesn't get lonely or whatever.

I mean to a point where it causes serious, genuine, lasting emotional distress.

Somebody please tell me I'm not alone here. Please. Please tell me that even one other person experiences this too.

Please reblog this so it gets a wider audience.

#mental instability #mental disorder #mental illness #mental health #mentally fucked #mental non health #mentally ill #actually mentally ill #psa #mental issues #mental ill health #mental illness posting #symptoms #mental illness symptoms #tumblr polls #poll #polls #my polls #mental health poll #mental illness poll #hellsite #hellsite (affectionate)