Hi darlings, I’m still fundraising for survival funds while I pursue a diagnosis (I already have 2 autoimmune diseases but have been having new symptoms). Sharing and support is much appreciated, thank you 💗💕

Sooo, while pursuing my GI issues and other symptoms, they found a tumor. I’m meeting an oncologist this week, to schedule surgery to have it removed. I could still use your help while I’m dealing with my health issues. My symptoms are increasing and I haven’t been able to seek employment because of it. Sharing this post is appreciated

Thank you

Aggressive reminder that the reason why schizophrenia is stigmatized as a dangerous and violent disorder is heavily linked with racism and anti-blackness as it was popularized in the 60’s as a diagnosis forced on civil rights protesters who refused to accept the rampant discrimination, marginalization and racism they faced in their daily lives. If you want to fight the stigma of schizophrenia, that MUST include fighting racism and anti blackness as the reasons why white and non black schizophrenics face so much hatred today is deeply entangled with its history as a tool of racist institutions.

Reblogging this again because I remembered there’s a book that was written about this called “The Protest Psychosis” by  Jonathan Michel Metzl in case anyone wants a book to read on it.

If you don’t have means to a therapist or mental health professional

Check out therapistaid.com. There’s worksheets there that you can download for free.

Of course it would be a lot more beneficial if you have a therapist to help you through it but not everyone has access to one.

It’s a free site where you can have free downloads of worksheets on many things.

If there’s something there that you think would be helpful, print it out and complete the worksheet on your own.

It’s hard to be accountable for yourself but at least there’s a way for you to have some insight and work on yourself.

Also if you use these in conjunction with the app Wysa

therapistaid is great, i get resources from there to use with my clients. here are some others

https://psychologytools.com/

https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/

https://www.actmindfully.com.au/free_resources_worksheets,_handouts_and_book_chapters

https://www.anxietybc.com/

http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/consumers.cfm

http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/

Thank you.

Seconding Wysa. I love that little owl.

Your mental health is important. There are people that can help you, even if you can’t help yourself.

One of the many stupid feelings humans are capable of having is the private, repulsive rage of seeing someone getting support and sympathy for a problem no one helped you with when you were having it, either because you didn’t have anyone or because it never occurred to you that you could ask for help. Suddenly the world seems to split into two – the realm that contains people like them, the connected and loved – and the realm that contains you, the miserable and the alone, who must suffer in solitude. This is sufficiently horrible that you start grasping for reasons to make this reality acceptable, and a mentally available one is that it is superior to be in the miserable solitude realm, that the problem is one that should be solved with self sufficiency and dignity. That this other person is pathetic for being aided and loved when you were not. Scorn is more palatable than confronting the notion that you could have received aid (if you had made different choices or been luckier), that you desperately wish you could have been aided but were not. Scorn is more palatable than the howling hunger for things to have been different for you. So your mind chooses scorn.

It is also a bad place to be. Human existence is full of such traps.

when the whole squad’s flourishing

One thing that gets ignored a lot when it comes to mental illness is conflicting symptoms. I sleep both too much and not enough. There will be weeks or months where I’m averaging three to four hours of sleep on a weekday, but on weekends I sleep until 1 pm. Some days I don’t eat my first meal until 4 or 5 pm, while other days I comfort eat all day. All of those are symptoms of depression, and none of them invalidate each other. Manifestation of symptoms can change as a person ages, but it can also change day to do depending on other factors in a person’s life.

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way to go comrades, congrats!!!

Oh hell yes

How to Develop Resilience

1. Work on developing a positive self-image, and accepting and loving the person that is “you”.

2. Develop a network of friends whom you can trust – who’ll be there to support you, and give encouragement.

3. Work on developing a positive mind set. Be grateful, optimistic, and focus on success.

4. Believe that you can change things, and make a difference. You’re not a helpless victim; you can take some control.

5. However, don’t waste your energy on things you cannot change. Walk away from toxic people and hopeless situations.

6. Take a long term view of things, and try to maintain your perspective. We all encounter obstacles and challenges in life.

an introduction to concepts and compassion-focused exercises

sometimes you have to accept that you have done wrong in the past, and you may have hurt people without intending to

you can apologise, but remember it’s ok for them not to forgive you

sometimes an apology can never be enough, even though you truly are sorry and didn’t see or understand the pain you were causing

don’t try and gain forgiveness for selfish reasons

if they do not accept your apology, dont try again, dont bring back those memories for them

leave them be, let them live without pain

you cannot change what you did, you can only learn from it

silently promise the people you have hurt that you have changed and would never do something like that again

let them live their life in peace, and move on and live yours