All of you, whether friends from Twixter or new ones here, have been the best.
Lisa Wallace
@rwillowfish.bsky.social
I talk about my own mental illness treatment and psychiatrists and psychotherapy. I post my art, which is nicely odd and deep and poorly planned out, which is its greatest strength.
Did I leave the psych hospital when I shouldn't have? Thank goodness for a therapy appointment later today. Hard to make decisions when mentally unwell.
One of the last things on Xitter before I deactivated today was a reply where the anonymous acct told me I'm a horrible person. And they added a lecture about my past affiliations w antipsych, how I once sought support there before turning my back. Mostly I don't need others telling me I'm horrible.
on a psych unit prison pens and paper bags for drawing no door on the bathroom, no showering after 9pm no phone, no coffee, no pajamas (glad it was brief; glad to be back home)
So tired I could barely move and then I fall into my bed and it’s pain here, pain there, mild enough but everywhere I turned. I would cry if I could cry, but instead I get suicidal thoughts.
Asserting that psychiatry is just dumb use of the DSM, reducing everyone and everything to disorders and codes and destroying humanity and all meaning in life, lacks nuance. You can see that, right? I'm not being that funny or overly dramatic in portraying that view.
DBT: Your feelings are wrong. CBT: Your thinking is wrong.
My goal in psychiatric treatment is stability and in psychotherapy, to not feel so imprisoned within my self. Returning to work isn’t the goal.
When a movement that claims they are in favour of informed consent and against coercive treatment find themselves in a carnal relationship with MAHA/MAGA, things can get awkward. Be careful what you wish for.
I love how the antis act like CCHR is a legit organisation, when everyone knows it is an official wing of Scientology. It’s not even a secret. www.scientology.org/how-we-help/...
Bringing Reform to Mental Health - Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a nonprofit charitable mental health watchdog organization established by the Church of Scientology in 1969, is dedicated to eradicating psychiatric abuses ...
scientology.org
If Scientology is promoting your work, maybe it’s time to consciously uncouple from these bedfellows.
Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:
SSRIs aren't the worst! I also laugh at the notion. "He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth." Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters. Sikorav Against the World www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...
Sikorav Against the World
A French psychiatrist’s efforts to do right by his patients brought him into conflict with the medical bureaucracy
psychiatrymargins.com
Mental illness is all to real to those struggling with it, and to their families. Don’t accept denial as an answer.
Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social · 12mo agoSchizophrenia exists. Mental illness exists. Psychiatric medications can be life-saving. Psychotherapy can be life-saving. Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise. Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️
Got a proper haircut at a salon instead of whacking away with scissors at home.
Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign. It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.
The transphobic messaging completely failed to help Republicans tonight. The anti-trans propaganda was a losing strategy which the GOP pushed all their chips in on, and it failed miserably. They lost every major race tonight.
Some food that thankfully I already had cooked, so just a warming up. Because I feel like crap.
