Hello everyone, I’ll be hosting the megathread while un_mask_me is out.
I completely forgot I had to post it until just now.
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“Disability” is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.
Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
i have once again defeated a psychiatrist in the battle of being too complicated for them to diagnose
Psychiatrists are all useless. I saw a book advertised called “Psychotherapy won’t help you: Mental Health, Mind Control, and the Exit Door You Were Never Meant to Find” by Marina Karlova, but I haven’t read it.
yea, i have been muuuuch more successful in improving my mental health by accepting im disabled and surrounding myself with kind and understanding people.
buuuut that doesn’t really work for capitalism since i’m not working, so i just need them to diagnose me so i can get aid, but they just keep on going “aw jeez girl ur kinda cooked huh”
Same here. All the therapy I received just consisted of being told to write lists of why I shouldn’t feel depressed or anxious and look at those reasons when I feel bad, or draw a picture of what I’m feeling today, or do a pointless guided meditation. Absolute rubbish and like you I only continued with this crap for the full 6 months to help my benefit appeal.
Thomas Szasz, you’re back?
mental health’s most powerful soldier > the pitiful forces of “psychiatry”*
*latest fad
(sorry if this is too cavalier btw, i know it can be grueling to find a mental health professional that understands you well enough to help)
(no it’s okay i thought it was pretty funny!)