Gotta say, it's been a while since i felt straight up "mentally ill," but that's where I've been sitting this last week. Usually, it's more of a mental health condition to manage or there are life circumstances to address, but lately it's disordered my life and left me feeling downright mentally sick.
Heck, off and on for months, my major depression, with borderline and dissociation sprinkled in for good measure, have been flaring up and leaving me effectively disabled for days at a time. Might be time to adjust my meds again (seems like i gotta do that once a year and always wind up at the same med and dose anyway 🤷🏼♀️), or maybe it's something else (hormones have been stable as far as i can tell).
Anywho, not fishing for support or advice, but rather to be transparent and destigmatize talking about mental illness.
It's okay to not be okay, and it's okay to talk about it. 💖
Sharing our stories fights stigma, enlightens others and gives them permission to enter our world, and helps people on a similar journey feel less alone.
Could not agree more with this review. #Mentalhealth is a complex multilevel problem. The idea that social media is a key factor has no scientific basis yet. Also the idea that its causes and solutions reside molecular mechanisms of the brain are equally simplistic. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2
Experts ignoring the elephant in the room, younger generations are sick and tired of CAPITALISM, it's not 'smartphones' or whatever bullshit excuse the Media comes up with, it's the very toxic society you've forced on us which is making us ill.
@Lazarou
"Ministers however believe that doctors are part of the problem for diagnosing minor ailments as serious illness."
Long COVID and countless debilitating but invisible ailments (fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome) are not minor ailments, you arrogant bastards.
Just say it - you want anyone not actively making the rich people holding your leashes to die.
After my first month of daily oral (buccal) ketamine treatments, my GADS scores for both anxiety and depression are pretty dramatically improved. They say there's still a lot of room for improvement, but I take comfort in knowing that it's actually helping (or that I've gotten better at gaming GADS scores) #MentalHealth
you probably don't need to stop any existing mental health medications, you can continue to use cannabis (just not within 2 hours before and after the ketamine) and the actual dosing process is extremely pleasant.
My only regrets are:
I wish I'd done Joyous sooner, and I wish Joyous didn't require VCs hoping to cash in on people's mental health problems to even be a thing in the first place.
Over on BSky, Rahaeli (who is amazing) made a post about how sometimes present them sticks a potato in the oven, because they might not want a potato right now, but future them often is really happy to have a baked potato.
The Future Me Potato is now a big part of my self care plan.
Does Future You need a potato? Maybe there's something else you can do to help Future You?
Here is the download link for the first report coming from the CAMHS survey I did (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). It looked into Autistic peoples experiences of CAMHS.
It's a long report, but has some really important statistics in it
Self-care is watching The Brady Bunch spinoffs and movies because of the need for entertainment where I don't have to think. I'm not even watching the original series! For one, Paramount+ is missing a number of episodes, probably because of music rights in those episodes.
@LEAD_Coalition My advice knowing the situation: Beyond green, don't listen to tricks and tips but search for professional help as fast as you can! Up from a darker yellow level, you have no more energy to help yourself or try any "tricks to convince yourself".
And then ... better don't live in a country with a burnt-out helping system and waiting lists for months.🙄
The word was first mentioned in 1651 & described as an #illness in 1688.
In 1710, it was claimed that music of Swiss #Alpine herdsmen & the Guggisberglied (a #folk song), led Swiss soldiers to desert. The singing of the same resulted (allegedly) in capital #punishment.
One doctor thought that the low air pressure made the Swiss sick with longing & would lead, if not returned home, to their eventual #death.
@Snowshadow thanks, friend. I have good days and bad. And, yeah, the state of the world isn’t helping. At least there are some good people in the world. Gotta make them the focus however possible.
For those of you that like to take online quizzes and assessments, here's a mental health one...
Mine didn't tell me anything I didn't already know regarding depression and anxiety. Those have been with me off and on my whole life, and I came by them honest, as the saying goes. As for ADHD, well, one of my kids was actually diagnosed, so I did suspect it.