February 2012
2 posts
Let the Naysayers Be Damned: I'm Out
I think it is about time to out myself. I go around all the time talking about how society should stop the stigmatization of different mental/psychological statuses, and how we should be comfortable talking about our own mental health concerns. Even with these strongly-held beliefs, I find myself hesitant to out my own madness. I fear that the legitimacy that I do have could be lost if I do. I...
January 2012
5 posts
“You can’t save a damsel if she loves her distress.”
– Unknown
tillomania
A layer of skin flakes covers my bed like powdered sugar sprinkled over a piece of chocolate cake. It falls from my arms, my legs, my face like it is being poured from a paper bag into a mixing bowl. I run my fingers over my skin and search for blemishes, for tougher hairs, for imperfections of any kind. so I can scrape them with my fingernails. I pick them off like people crusted food being...
December 2011
23 posts
Musings: I Really Hate Ableism →
justthissideofsane:
and it just really bugs me, more than I know how to explain.
For example, I was in the car with my mother this morning, going to pick up my younger sister (she’s 7); I noticed that, when she came out of the building, she was paired with one of her friends, and began thinking about how I know all of her friends personally because they’re often over after school, sleeping...
Just This Side Of Sane- Musings: A Lot Of People... →
justthissideofsane:
and I can’t help but feel saddened by that, because it’s something that I feel very passionately about. There are so many reasons, the first of which is that we are human and, therefore, deserving of respect and lives and happiness.
But the second is much more historical. I think we have to…
55 gentle ways to take care of yourself when... →
tonedcurves:
We all have times in our lives when we just have too much stuff going on. There are always deadlines, exams, due dates and just too many priorities to juggle. And when everything is going wrong, the world is screaming for your attention and you just don’t have time – the last thing you need…
Just Read An Article By The Wall Street Journal... →
justthissideofsane:
and read so many bullshit comments about how people with mental illnesses need to man up, that I had to leave my own small manifesto as a comment:
“So many of these comments are complete bull. Having a mental illness is not a matter of “being a little stressed out” as many of you seem to think-mental illnesses are serious and sometimes debilitating disorders that can...
TW: suicide, incarceration. Bei Bei Shuai... →
My friend’s mom started a petition on change.org to help BeiBei Shuai, a mentally ill Chinese immigrant who has been imprisoned without bail in Indiana since April. She is accused of murder because she attempted to kill herself while pregnant, and miscarried her fetus. She is being charged with “feticide”. The whole situation is terribly unjust, but at the very least, she should be released on...
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adifferentkindofhero:
I want children to be taught about mental health, I want children to bought up and raised not to shun against it and be so ignorant about it. I want them to learn to understand what it is and how it effects people, I want them to know what it’s like.
I’m sick of seeing and hearing people insult those with a mental illness, Sick of people making jokes out of it, sick of...
just trying to evolve: Things that are important... →
treevolve:
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
Inevitably, suffering happens
It is not my choice to be (manic) or (depressed) or (anxious) or (whatever)
What is my choice is how I cope, how I manage, how I treat people—including myself. What is also my choice is how quickly I address red flags when I recognize them.
I am always responsible for my actions, no matter what mood state I am...
Understanding
love-pride-peace:
I’ve never felt this way before. Quietly, sneaks into my brain. Changing chemicals What is this? Awake at nine AM. That’s a first. Dressed, clean, presentable. Out, interaction, enjoyment. Calm, peaceful, stable. Doesn’t know the person staring back at them in the mirror. Who is this? This is someone who is ready to live their life. This is someone who wants to get better...
November 2011
6 posts
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Watchmy trEvolution: The Pitfalls of Western Medicine (an experimental performance art piece)
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel (via eadrom)
Here's a little poem I wrote while in a bout of... →
bipolar-problems:
I am here But I am not I’m gone more than I think Longer than you thought What if reality Is really just a dream And when I awaken I will be living as it seems I am lonesome When I am with you But when I’m with myself I’m accompanied By my corpse’s crew My heart and mind to name a few I’ll continue To remain a statute Among my loved ones Because I am dead In my head But alive...
“Schizophrenia rolls in like a slow fog, becoming imperceptibly thicker as time...”
– The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn R. Saks (via highwaytosomewhere)
October 2011
26 posts
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The ward
A place where you can learn about realities previously unnoticed
A place where you can bring headphones and hide in the bathroom
A place where artistic expression is paramount, but formal art groups are dumbed-down.
The inpatients are the sane ones.
Corruption is rampant.
Meds are pushed.
A place for respite.
It is hard to sleep even with sedatives.
There is violence.
Knocking their heads...
selfharm-support:
698. Today I got very upset during school and my friend came to comfort me and it caused me to cry. She sat there with me and listened to me but when I finished she said, don’t go home and do that thing you usually do okay? And I told her I wouldn’t. Later on I said I was going to punch a wall and she came up to me grabbed my arms and whispered, don’t self-harm, don’t...
A woman falls down a hole
thatqueerchick:
And the walls are so steep she can’t get out.
A doctor walks past and she shouts for help. The doctor writes a prescription and tosses it down the hole.
A priest walks past and she shouts for help again. The priest writes a prayer and tosses it down the hole.
Then a friend walks past, and again she shouts for help, and the friend jumps in with her.
“What did you do that for?”...
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“No one really needs to study that!”
– My aunt, to me after I told her I was taking a couple disability studies courses in University this year. I felt like my experience as a disabled person has no value and that there is nothing anyone could gain from learning about the social oppression of disabled people in a society that is supposed...
“Every beginning
is but a continuation,
and the book of events
is never more...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “Love at First Sight”, translated by Walter Whipple (via the-final-sentence)