#psychosis spectrum

[psychotic-tbh]

Shoutout to those who have had to go through things no one should as kids/adolescents due to their mental illness(es).

BUT ALSO:

Shoutout to those who developed their mental illness(es) after their tween/teen years and had to learn to adjust to life with mental illness.

ADDITIONALLY:

Lots of love to all with mental illness who had to adjust without much or any support from others/those you love(d).

END NOTE:

Mental illness is hard enough on its own, but these conditions can make it so much more difficult.

You’re worthy and deserving of love, support, and respect even if you haven’t been receiving it.

#actually psychotic #actually schizospec #schizospec #schizophrenic spectrum #mad pride #actually schizophrenic #disability pride #schizo spectrum #schizoaffective #brief psychosis #psychosis positivity #psychosis nos #actually schizotypal #schizophreniform #actuallypsychotic #substance induced psychosis #psychosis spectrum #psychotic spectrum #psychotic disorders

[locketdream]

hallucination trauma IS trauma

#group post #trauma #hallucinations #hallucination #schizophrenic #schizoaffective #schizophrenic spectrum #schizo spectrum #psychosis spectrum #schizoaffective disorder

[angry-enbies-united]

To people with psychosis: you are not evil. You are not irredeemable. You are not a burden. You're wonderful!

#pseriouslypsychosis #actually psychotic #actually schizophrenic #schizophrenia #schizoaffective #psychosis #psychosis spectrum #mental health #psychotic disorders #positivity

[rachymarie]

Guys LOOK they made a schizospec Palm Pal and I am absolutely living for it she is now my personal mascot

This actually means so much to me, it's a step in the right direction to fight stigma, get kids (and other Palm Pals-enjoyers) more openminded about accepting people with unfairly severely stigmatized mental illness 🩶 thank you for the representation, Aurora

#is this what you call canon #schizospec #Palm Pals #paranoid #schizophrenia #psychosis spectrum #psychosis #psychotic #actually psychotic #cute #canon #(idk i'm Old i have never quite figured out exactly what canon means lol) #soft toys #stuffies #mental health awareness #flying squirrel #Flaps Palm Pal #advocacy #end stigma #stigmatized illness #stuffed animals #squirrel #hidden gems #schizophrenia coded #only strange thing is why Boomer #Boomers in my experience tend to be the most ableist to us #stereotypical ones anyway #mental health advocacy #I'm sorry if you're a kiwi and want her but i just ordered the last one available online in NZ today #disability

[realityhop]

"Some researchers are trying to do away with the term “schizophrenia”. In an article titled “The slow death of the concept of schizophrenia and the painful birth of the psychosis spectrum,” European scholars advocate for a gradient phenomenon similar to autism. They want to be rid of distinct categories of psychosis altogether."

— Sarah Myers, Why Psychosis Is a Spectrum (2023)

#psychosis #schizophrenia #psychosis spectrum

[objectlovernonhuman]

Psyaffect Para & Psyaffect Paracosm

Psyaffected Para/Psyaffect Para/PApara is a term for a para ("daydream character") that is in some way affected/related/linked to the daydreamer's psychosis.

Psyaffected Paracosm/Psyaffect Paracosm/PAparacosm is a term for a paracosm ("daydream world") that is in some way affected/related/linked to the daydreamer's psychosis.

The specifics of what these terms mean/the experiences of them depend on the person experiencing it.

This term is exclusive to those with psychosis. It can be used by anyone who has psychosis and Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder or is an psychotic Immersive Daydreamer or Neuronarrator.

Flags: PApara main + icon variants, PAparacosm main +icon variants.

#very nervous posting these because nonpsychotics can be mean abt psychosis experiences having a non-psychiatry term & a flag for it but #weve had our psychosis n madd interact in various ways for all our life and we cant just pretend they dont. #term coining #flag coining #maladaptive daydreaming disorder #maladaptive daydreamer #maladaptive daydreaming #madd #actually madd #neuronarration #neuronarrator #immersive daydreamer #immersive daydreaming #psychosis #psychosis spectrum #actually psychotic #schizo spectrum #mad pride

[queermoths]

tw for sanism, specifically against those with psychosis and mentions of abuse (non-detailed, purely mentions)

note before reading: this is written by a person with psychosis/psychotic person. please understand this is coming from personal experiences and my unique perspective of the world as someone who has psychosis and experiences this stigma and discrimination. in other words, non-psychotics you may reblog and be polite but you may not argue or perpetuate more harm on this post. i will delete and block. us people with psychosis need to be at the center of this conversation.

furthermore, although i am a writer and that is my passion, my mental health is struggling at the moment and so if this is hard to read/repetitive please be understanding and just ask for clarification politely if needed.

man, i cannot stand the trope of “this person is psychotic and therefore abusive and dangerous and a horrible person.” like, wow, way to stereotype a symptom that already is already so stigmatised and one that often means the person who has it goes through discrimination, including medical violence.

i hate it so much. it perpetuates the dangerous assumptions people have about those with psychosis, that our psychosis makes us inherently bad or abusive or dangerous.

like, yes. psychosis can involve delusions/hallucinations of harming oneself or others. but thats not for every psychotic person nor is it the only part of psychosis!!

and everyone deserves help, if they have hallucinations/delusions like that or not.

and making media where psychosis is always represented as dangerous to *others* and abusive and only harmful to the non-psychotic people around the person with psychosis centres non-psychotic people in the conversation of psychosis. it also normalises tropes of us being abusive and dangerous, so that that becomes all that people see when they see us.

and no one ever talks about being a danger to oneself with psychosis. its always about people around us, because of the fear that has become rooted in our society from the discriminatory stigma and stereotypes we are forced into.

psychosis doesn’t inherently mean someone is dangerous.

if someone is abusive, thats not their disorder or symptom. thats them. blaming the disorder or symptom makes it an excuse.

(this is coming from me reading a comic where the horrible evil abusive villain of the story hallucinates voices telling him to harm people and then he harms people and thats used as the “reason” hes abusive. and people are in the comments calling him a “psycho.” its fucking awful.)

#sanism #tw sanism #abuse tw #tw abuse #actually psychotic #psychosis spectrum #psychosis #mentally ill/mad #actually mentally ill #mentally ill #mental illness #mental health

[psychotic-mushroom]

Monday, 1:49 pm 25/4

So, it's been a long time without posting here. I've news. It's been a long way through psychiatrist to psychiatrist and therapist to therapist, but I'm finally finding my balance. My new psychiatrist said I could have schizoaffective disorder. And based on the information I had, that's just one type more of schizophrenia, so yeah, I'm living with schizophrenia, just as I thought all this time but no psychiatrist nor therapist could say. I'm easy about it, I'm happy someone could finally find the right diagnosis, and I'm happy cause I don't have to wonder "what's wrong with me" anymore. So, to give a final diagnosis of the situation, I have BPD (borderline personality disorder), STPD (schizotypal personality disorder), MDD (major depressive disorder), anxiety, and schizoaffective disorder, the depressive type, tho my psychiatrist said she could see some bipolar traits but I personally don't see it. I'm taking some new medication and I'm feeling really bad with the side effects but I guess they'll pass soon. Other than that, my depression's kicking hard this month, but I know I'll be better soon.

That would be it, hope you all have a good rest of the day :)

#psychosis #psychosis spectrum #schizophrenia #schizo spec #schizo edpectrum #schizoaffective #actually mentally ill #mentally ill #neurodivergent #neuro divergent #schizophrenia spectrum #BPD #Borderline #actually borderline #blog #mentally ill blog #mental health awareness #mental health blog #writing #actually schizophrenic #schizophrenic

[tortiefrancis]

hey fun fact did you know that if you're on the schizophrenia spectrum, have psychosis, have psychotic symptoms or traits, etc, that you're loved and your symptoms and traits should not be vilainized or seen as evil or ugly?

#sam.txt #sam.neuro #psychosis #schizospec #schizophrenia spectrum #schizophrenia #szpd #stpd #neurodivergent #schizoid personality disorder #schizotypal personality disorder #schizoaffective #nd #persodivergent #interdivergent #positivity

[doomsdayradio]

btw shout out to people with disorders that are stigmatized as dangerous killers who actually have homicidal thoughts and urges. people with DID, ASPD, schizospec disorders and psychosis, ect. you're not perpetuating stereotypes or ableist by existing and having your personal experience and anyone who blames you for that is an asshole. take care.

#words words words !! #did #dissociative identity disorder #aspd #antisocial personality disorder #schizophrenia #schizo spectrum #schizospec #psychosis

[villain-disorder]

Unfortunately, I think stigmatised disorder (personality disorders, psychotic disorders, etc) culture is realising something you experience has a name and finally feeling seen, but you go to google it for more resources and only find people talking about how horrible and morally evil you are for daring to have that symptom you never chose in the first place.

#psychotic #disability #actually psychotic #psychosis #schizo spectrum #personality disorder #cluster b #cluster b safe #npd safe #actually schizoaffective #aspd safe #bpd safe #actually bpd #actually cluster b #neurodivergent #salem speaks #schizospec

[thecorvidforest]

to my psychotic/paranoid/OCD/other friends - you might start seeing posts in the next few days about how the rapture supposedly happened or is going to happen very soon. a group of evangelical “rapture watchers” think the rapture happened 9/22/23 for a handful of reasons, such as the dates lining up in a way that’s somehow significant.

i promise the rapture didn’t happen. i don’t personally believe in the rapture and i have nothing against those who do, but it for sure didn’t already happen. if it did everyone would know. there would be tons of footage. anyone who tries to claim it did happen or that they know the date is either lying or misguided.

#corvidforest avian’s posts #tags for reach #ocd #obsessive compulsive disorder #paranoia #psychosis #psychotic spectrum #paranoid delusions #pdd #paranoid personality disorder #schizophrenic spectrum #schizophrenia

[dysmotility]

please please please don’t forget to include intellectual disability, psychosis / schizospec disorders, level 2-3 autistics, folks w dissociative disorders, and others with “severe mental illness” from ur conversations about mad liberation.

these are some of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised mad people, and we need to give them a voice.

these are the places where liberation is needed the most

#mad liberation #mad pride #psych survivor #autistic #disabled #sanism #cripplepunk #intellectual disability #psychosis #actually schizospec #schizo spectrum #neurodivergent #level 2 autism #level 3 autism #level 1 #actually autistic #disability #queer cripple

[schizoetic]

Just because something you experience in psychosis isn't happening in reality, it doesn't mean it wasn't real to you. The trauma you get from those experiences is real.

#psychosis #psychotic #schizophrenia #psychotic break #schizophrenic spectrum #schizo spectrum #schizoaffective #schizo speaking #schizo spec

[rachymarie]

Does anyone else on the schizospectrum get alien eyes sometimes, where your pupils are extremely dilated, even in broad daylight? Think it's our meds? It always freaks my sister out 👁️👁️

Like I needed another excuse to believe I come from another planet/realm 😅

#schizospec #schizospec things #spoonie #antipsychotics #dilated pupils #help #alien eyes #i got them crazy eyes #reclaimed #reclaimed slur in tags #schizospec sweetie #psychosis spectrum

[herbal-scout]

People on the schizophrenia spectrum are 14 times more likely to be victims of crime, not the perpetrators.

There is the ableist assumption that "schizophrenics are all dangerous", and a lot of people don't know how false that is.

Please help stop the stigma.

#schizophrenia #schizophrenia spectrum #mental health #mental illness #psychosis #actually schizophrenic #disability #disabled #disability justice #disability rights #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #invisible disabilities #invisible illness