gavi
gavi@bagel.ing
people are always like "support mental health" until its the non-cutesy mental illness like bpd, bipolar, or schizophrenia
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Octavia Con Amore 
Succubard's Library
OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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@mynameistillian @gavi "your symptoms actually just mean you're a bad person and we won't recognise it let alone give you help for it" 
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eli, vampire kitsune
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@OctaviaConAmore @mynameistillian @gavi “wait supporting mental health means i cant use stigmatized disorders for political expediency and personal convenience?”
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i literally thought my partner was an alien and didnt sleep for a week. does that make you uncomfortable? good. mental health is uncomfortable.
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Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️🌈
5klp471@4bear.com@gavi
My mother, I call her Jocasta, was bipolar 1 with psychotic features. She didn't want any support for her mental health.
People have to actually WANT the support.
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@5klp471 agreed, unfortunately. some people reject support completely
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Inderix Neocat Edition
inderix@booping.synth.download@gavi yeah that fucks me up too
“yeah ! i support people with mental health issues !” and then shy away when someone with genuine schizophrenia begins screaming because their brain is tormenting itself and they have no choice but to fucking take it. abandoning people with these conditions when its inconvenient for you happens to be the worst time to abandon them.
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Packets From The Void
UntaggedTransmitter@aberrantwinds.bond@gavi
Soon as someone's actions or thought processes are "scary" then "support" disappears and its all back to carceral violence.
Everyone's an abolitionist until they are made uncomfortable by someone else's suffering.
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Packets From The Void
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@gavi
A memory that will never leave me is watching a friend being handcuffed and chained to the back of a police car because the hospital policy was entirely liability avoidance.
She certainly wasn't dangerous to anyone, just terrified by the traumatic processes being inflicted.
Her delusions at the time weren't well managed, but the vast majority of the suffering she described was generated by the trauma of incarceration and the threat of homelessness upon her release.
Neither the ER or state hospital did much to help her manage the delusions either, just drugged her until she wasn't coherent enough to talk about them.
I was happy to have her live with us but she deserved a more reliable support system than hoping her TTRPG acquaintances could drive 4 hours on a weekday with next to no notice to pick her up and give her a place to stay.
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2something@transfem.social
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When they say “support” they actually mean “imprison, for your own good.”
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let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}
Alephwyr@chitter.xyz@gavi People are always also like "support trans people" until they want surgery.
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Pixel Refresh
PixelRefresh@masto.ai@gavi Brains are a complex organ capable of hosting a conscious mind. It is incredible they don't go awry more severely and more often.
Be kind to the mentally ill. No matter thier symptoms, they are still a person and still deserve to be respected as such.
If you wouldn't mistreat a disabled person for being in a wheelchair, why would it be different if their disability is in their brain instead of thier legs?
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@PixelRefresh 10000% agreed, couldnt have put it better myself
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Violet Madder
violetmadder@kolektiva.socialBrains are also RATHER NEW at this whole, prefrontal cortex, thinky thinking, thing.
Ain't exactly great at matching it up with the limbix system, feely irrational stuff that's built much closer to the metal than the thinky bits that want to THINK they're really in charge.
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Pixel Refresh
PixelRefresh@masto.ai@gavi The discomfort it brings me is merely empathy knowing you must live with that. Your experience sounds terrifying. I hope you were given support and not ridicule.
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@PixelRefresh I was 
, im very lucky that i have supportive family and friends who understood what was happening and convinced me to get help
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@PixelRefresh im on a cocktail of medicine to help it, and thankfully ive found the cocktail that works with minimal side effects!
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@gavi for real
it's probably similar to how people treat physical disabilities as well. it's all sexy and respectable when you're walking with a stylish cane, until you shit your pants in public due to the very same damaged nerve connections
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@gavi society will never forgive you for any mental health issue or any sign of neurodivergence. I don’t think it ever will.
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Li ~ Crystal System
Li@tech.lgbt@gavi asihash another thing is that sometimes some are perceived as 'cutesy' 'fun' whatever, when they actually kinda suck to live with, because sometimes people with them dare try make light of a shitty situation,
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