May 2013
4 posts
[Trigger Warning: Discussion of deaths/abuse in... →
The Adebowale Commission published its findings today (pdf behind link above). Lord Adebowale is the Chief Executive of social care charity Turning Point and chaired this group of 13 experts to independently examine cases of death or serious injury of people with a mental illness, after contact with police, within the last 5 years.
Previous research suggests that approximately half of all deaths...
BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind →
Super interesting radio show available in the UK about the upcoming new DSM-V (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Volume V) and its implications, as well as a feature on the relationship between mental illness and sleeping patterns. Check it out!
ourcatastrophe:
I’m really mad/sad about how many women are having (consensual, but) unsatisfying sex b/c of inconsiderate partners, heterosexism, trauma, dysphoria, other mental health issues that make it hard to inhabit your body, etc
I believe that someday we can talk about this without it devolving into “have more sex to be more liberated” but I’m not holding my breath
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[Trigger Warning: Discussion of violence and... →
Hello loves, you may remember my asking for people to share their experiences of intimate partner violence and mental illness a few weeks ago for an article I was thinking of writing.
Thank you so much to everyone who got in contact with me, your openness and eloquence in explaining your various situations and experiences was totally humbling.
I was worried I wouldn’t be able to do you...
April 2013
26 posts
genderedintelligence:
‘Domestic Violence: A resource for trans people’ was produced in 2009 by The Greater London Domestic Violence project, in collaboration with the LGBT Domestic Abuse Forum and NHS Barking & Dagenham.
The resource has been written primarily to assist trans people who experience domestic abuse. There is information as well as links to UK resources.
To view the full...
This is your daily reminder that self-indulgence can be a form of self-care.
That ‘because it makes me feel better’ is a completely valid reason to do something.
That if something makes you happy then it is not pointless or a waste of time.
That if doing something makes you feel better then it is not something that is unproductive to do.
And that doing things that make you feel okay is just...
“Be kind to yourself. Stop telling yourself that whatever you are struggling with...”
– How to keep moving forward, even when your brain hates you.
bartonesque:
friendly reminder that you don’t have to be around people who upset you or make you uncomfortable, even if those people are “friends” or “family”. you don’t owe them anything and you don’t deserve to be treated that way. you should surround yourself with people that are emotionally supportive because you deserve to be happy.
strangelanguage:
Study Reveals Depression is a Miscommunication Between Brain Cells
A new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine suggests that depression results from a disturbance in the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other. The study indicates a major shift in our understanding of how depression is caused and how it should be treated. Instead of focusing on...
freemints asked: I just think everybody should be aware that the autism-vaccination research was literal fraud. Like, Wakefield's medical license got taken away because of it. He falsified medical histories and results for the purpose of financial gain. There is ACTUALLY no basis to his research, and it's clear the kind of damage it has done to public health. It all just makes me very sad.
allibys asked: Thanks for clarifying it for me! That's exactly what I meant, and I definitely could have worded it better :)
allibys replied to your post: @bonesandwhatnot: autism is _not_ a mental illness- that implies that it can be cured...
@everyone: You’re right. I’ve been doing some thinking and autism, in a technical sense, is a mental illness I actually have clinical depression and an anxiety disorder, and I feel like my autism is somewhat… “separate” from those? They’re things that I WANT to be rid of. I want...
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allibys asked: @bonesandwhatnot: autism is _not_ a mental illness- that implies that it can be cured. And preventing their (our) "pain"? Fuck that. I _like_ the way my brain works, and most of the autistic people I've spoken to online like theirs, too. We don't want to be cured! And we (everyone) don't need people like you perpetuating lies and putting children at risk.
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bonesandwhatnot asked: My brother is severely Autistic. As a result, my mother has opted to never vaccinate us unless it is required by our schools. I receive the necessary vaccinations but abstain from the optional vaccinations. I never felt unsafe or not well-protected by this decision from my mother. Also, I never perceived it as a negative reaction to Autism. Rather, I viewed it as my mother attempting to be...
tattooed-yogi replied to your post: What you just posted about autism and the MMR vaccine is very controversial!...
“plenty of research out there to suggest a link”…um WHERE!? what peer-reviewed research journals are you (not) reading?
raptorallen replied to your post: What you just posted about autism and the MMR vaccine is very controversial!...
“There is plenty of research out there to...
Anonymous asked: What you just posted about autism and the MMR vaccine is very controversial! Everyone's entitled to their opinion but if parents choose not to vaccinate their children then that's their business. There is plenty of research out there to suggest a link, so of course many parents would be worried and think it's risky. Don't you think that in some children vaccinations overwhelm...
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mindovermatterzine:
[Trigger Warning: Discussion of violence and abuse against people with mental illness, particularly intimate partner violence]
Mental illness and experience of intimate partner violence: A call for submissions
I just want to clarify: “intimate partner violence” doesn’t just cover physical aggressions.
I’ve had a couple of people write to me with...
[Trigger Warning: Autism discrimination]
mirrored-mazes:
mindovermatterzine:
If you would rather put your children at (proven) risk of death via Measles than (unproven) risk of Autism via the MMR vaccine, you need to re-examine your attitudes to disability and neurodivergence because essentially you are saying you’d rather your child was dead than autistic.
(The measles outbreak in Swansea, Wales, has hit over 800 this week in a...
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[Trigger Warning: Discussion of Eating Disorders...
Officials at one of the largest eating-disorder treatment centers in the world have complained that modeling agencies have been scouting for “new talent” among their patients.
“We think this is repugnant. People have stood outside our clinic and tried to pick up our girls because they know they are very thin,” the chief doctor at Sweden’s Stockholm Center for Eating...
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[Trigger Warning: Autism discrimination]
If you would rather put your children at (proven) risk of death via Measles than (unproven) risk of Autism via the MMR vaccine, you need to re-examine your attitudes to disability and neurodivergence because essentially you are saying you’d rather your child was dead than autistic.
(The measles outbreak in Swansea, Wales, has hit over 800 this week in a ‘missing generation’ of...
GlaxoSmithKline accused of paying rivals to keep... →
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Mental illness and experience of intimate partner...
[Trigger Warning: Discussion of violence and abuse against people with mental illness, particularly intimate partner violence]
Some of you may have seen an anonymous message I received yesterday from a person with mental illness who has been experiencing intimate partner violence. Unfortunately this is far from the first correspondence of this nature I’ve received through the zine, and...
danny-the-merghost:
til-butts-do-us-part:
You can’t always tell whether somebody has a mental illness by the way they act.
And “but you seem so happy/confident/well-rounded/normal” isn’t a compliment.
“but I would never have been able to tell!”
….thanks? (no thanks) like….no.
Anonymous asked: when i was younger my mom used to tell me i had "avoidance issues" wasn't sure what that meant until now. now when i wake up everymorning ifeel depressed and unmotivated, and iconstantly worry about going to class b/c people will see me and see what i'm doing, so lately i've been avoiding class/socialization and it's been adding up. ilive alone and it's getting...
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Anonymous asked: hi! a few things [TW- ABUSE]: 1) i love this blog. <3 2) i'm in an abusive relationship currently (likely getting out of it soon), and my mental illness(es) are often used against me i.e. "i don't really treat you that badly; you're just crazy," said to me after i was choked, shoved and dragged across a floor. are there any statistics out there on the rates of violence...
Sorry for the recent paucity of posts and high percentage of those as reblobs. Life has kind of got in the way lately. Will try harder. xo
princetryingto:
Safe spaces are kind of like ghosts. I don’t trust anyone who is super into believing they actually exist
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raspberrying:
Why is social anxiety associated with being “cute” because my sister has had it her whole life and watching her grow up locking herself in closets because she couldn’t go out in public and seeing her nearly cry at age 23 in the supermarket because she’s too scared to ask for help with something is not cute it’s sad and horrible
March 2013
2 posts
vastderp:
Being skeptical that another person can be incapacitated by a mental illness because you cope just fine with your problems is basically the same as saying “I don’t understand why other people’s brakes fail, because my car works great.”
Submitted by ftmbiter:
I was assigned as female at birth but I identify more with a boy than a girl. I have this gender identity disorder that is one of the causes for my eating disorders and since I feel abandoned by the other ftm guys I am always scared and anxious because non-trans people don’t understand that I have these problems because I’m not too self conscious about my...
February 2013
141 posts
Huzzah! (In the UK at least)
Fantastic news today as the Mental Health (Discrimination) Bill gets Royal Assent, putting an end to archaic laws that discriminate against people with mental health problems. This is an historic step towards ending the widespread discrimination that people with mental health problems face. Obviously laws are only part of the battle, but they’ll certainly make a huge difference.
Read more...
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[Trigger Warning: Self harm, self injury, suicide...
kateordie:
This is a comic about self-injury…And though it is not especially descriptive, trigger warnings apply.
Anonymous asked: My apologies if this question is too personal to answer, but I was wondering if/how your mental health impacts your relationships?
Watchmindovermatterzine:
“Elefriends is a supportive online community where you can be yourself. We all know what it’s like to struggle sometimes, but now there’s a safe place to listen, share and be heard”
So excited to see that Mind have launched a new mental health support site elefriends.org.uk today: check it out! xo
I’ve just joined & my profile’s here. Hope to see some of you...
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand...”
– Adam Elenbass
PSA from someone who is literally, physically lame
prudeboy:
entegegenwartigung:
STOP CALLING THINGS “LAME.”
If you are not LITERALLY lame yourself, you don’t have the right to say it’s not offensive. You don’t have the right to use the word as a pejorative (meaning “bad,” “ain’t shit,” and so on). I don’t think a lot of people who have disabilities that affect their ability to walk would be thrilled about you using it to describe them,...
“Nobody ever looks at me and thinks instinctively that I must be genderqueer, or...”
– Pass/fail: Navigating a World that doesn’t Believe your Gender Exists (via ninjabikeslut)
anatomy-of-recovery:
I kind of hate a lot of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week programming because I feel like other people are speaking to my experience and thinking they understand it when they don’t. It’s not a problem with the week, because awareness saves lives; it’s a problem with how things are presented. At my college, it’s a bunch of girls who are like “I have totally hated my...
Mental Health First Aid Act 2013 - petition →
impromptuonedykedanceparty:
captain-ray-assbutt:
ameliaearharts:
Hey, look. It’s another Whitehouse.gov petition on your dash.
This one’s about mental health. And a thing that I - as a perpetual sufferer of unfun things like anxiety and depression and dissociation - feel pretty strongly about. Right now, it has a little over 1,000 signatures. The one about building a Death Star had...
escapeeintothenight:
okleave:
mycatisabunny:
like if someone has social anxiety, don’t get mad at them for being afraid to do “simple things”
if someone is depressed, don’t get mad at them for being “a downer”
if someone has had a traumatic experience, don’t get mad at them for being “so sensitive”
I could go on and on
fucking this
THIS.
bitchez-brew:
kvteghost:
i deserve to be happy
i’m allowed to be sad
Important.
New Study Links Childhood Bullying to Adult... →
scienceofeds:
jaycereinhardt:
scienceofeds:
A significant study from Duke, out today, provides the best evidence we’ve had thus far that bullying in childhood is linked to a higher risk of psychological disorders in adulthood. The results came as a surprise to the research team. “I was a skeptic going into this,” lead author and Duke psychiatry professor William E. Copeland told me over the...
People of Color and Mental Health (Edited...
cereal-for-supper:
Edit 2/24/2013 - added two links and citations for most articles
wretchedoftheearth:
Edit 5/22/12 - added many links upon request
Please let me know if any of the links go down. I have most if not all of them saved. Also if you have any articles, books, or fact sheets you recommend, add them or message me. Also message me if there is something specific or a specific group...
prudeboy:
bunnypunx:
my preferred form of activism is “sometimes i cry abt it”
#like every night i’m rly dedicated to the struggle
bring the anarcry
karengillan2:
the best kind of friend is the kind that understands that sometimes you might not talk for days on end or sometimes you just disappear and they dont take it personal
