littlemissciswitch: grantaire-put-that-bottle-down: jemimamallard: thought i would create a powerpoint on this since the post went down well yesterday  Quite good, but I do suggest fetching them something cool (water would be best, but a bottle of soda could work to). Drinking can help, as can resting the bottle on the back of their neck important very important I: am in fact the biggest dick ever (I ALWAYS tell people [read: Jess] to calm down because I don’t know what to do and I feel like a failure when I can’t fix everything. I know, way to make it about me. I’m working on it).  But, I wanted to add that the cold thing is absolutely true. Putting something cold completely over your face or on the back of your neck helps slow your heart rate. When I was a preteen I had totally uncontrolled panic attacks (not even things I could link to anything - I would just start shaking and hyperventilating) and my mom did this. To this day even washing my hands with cold water is one of the ways to chill me out best. It’s also important to talk to people (when they’re not panicking) about their specific triggers since this advice is super good but won’t work for everyone. Asking me what I want you to do during a panic attack would freak me RIGHT the fuck out. Asking me what I want you to do ANY time would freak me out.
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littlemissciswitch: grantaire-put-that-bottle-down: jemimamallard: thought i would create a powerpoint on this since the post went down well yesterday  Quite good, but I do suggest fetching them something cool (water would be best, but a bottle of soda could work to). Drinking can help, as can resting the bottle on the back of their neck important very important I: am in fact the biggest dick ever (I ALWAYS tell people [read: Jess] to calm down because I don’t know what to do and I feel like a failure when I can’t fix everything. I know, way to make it about me. I’m working on it).  But, I wanted to add that the cold thing is absolutely true. Putting something cold completely over your face or on the back of your neck helps slow your heart rate. When I was a preteen I had totally uncontrolled panic attacks (not even things I could link to anything - I would just start shaking and hyperventilating) and my mom did this. To this day even washing my hands with cold water is one of the ways to chill me out best. It’s also important to talk to people (when they’re not panicking) about their specific triggers since this advice is super good but won’t work for everyone. Asking me what I want you to do during a panic attack would freak me RIGHT the fuck out. Asking me what I want you to do ANY time would freak me out.
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littlemissciswitch: grantaire-put-that-bottle-down: jemimamallard: thought i would create a powerpoint on this since the post went down well yesterday  Quite good, but I do suggest fetching them something cool (water would be best, but a bottle of soda could work to). Drinking can help, as can resting the bottle on the back of their neck important very important I: am in fact the biggest dick ever (I ALWAYS tell people [read: Jess] to calm down because I don’t know what to do and I feel like a failure when I can’t fix everything. I know, way to make it about me. I’m working on it).  But, I wanted to add that the cold thing is absolutely true. Putting something cold completely over your face or on the back of your neck helps slow your heart rate. When I was a preteen I had totally uncontrolled panic attacks (not even things I could link to anything - I would just start shaking and hyperventilating) and my mom did this. To this day even washing my hands with cold water is one of the ways to chill me out best. It’s also important to talk to people (when they’re not panicking) about their specific triggers since this advice is super good but won’t work for everyone. Asking me what I want you to do during a panic attack would freak me RIGHT the fuck out. Asking me what I want you to do ANY time would freak me out.
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littlemissciswitch: grantaire-put-that-bottle-down: jemimamallard: thought i would create a powerpoint on this since the post went down well yesterday  Quite good, but I do suggest fetching them something cool (water would be best, but a bottle of soda could work to). Drinking can help, as can resting the bottle on the back of their neck important very important I: am in fact the biggest dick ever (I ALWAYS tell people [read: Jess] to calm down because I don’t know what to do and I feel like a failure when I can’t fix everything. I know, way to make it about me. I’m working on it).  But, I wanted to add that the cold thing is absolutely true. Putting something cold completely over your face or on the back of your neck helps slow your heart rate. When I was a preteen I had totally uncontrolled panic attacks (not even things I could link to anything - I would just start shaking and hyperventilating) and my mom did this. To this day even washing my hands with cold water is one of the ways to chill me out best. It’s also important to talk to people (when they’re not panicking) about their specific triggers since this advice is super good but won’t work for everyone. Asking me what I want you to do during a panic attack would freak me RIGHT the fuck out. Asking me what I want you to do ANY time would freak me out.
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littlemissciswitch: grantaire-put-that-bottle-down: jemimamallard: thought i would create a powerpoint on this since the post went down well yesterday  Quite good, but I do suggest fetching them something cool (water would be best, but a bottle of soda could work to). Drinking can help, as can resting the bottle on the back of their neck important very important I: am in fact the biggest dick ever (I ALWAYS tell people [read: Jess] to calm down because I don’t know what to do and I feel like a failure when I can’t fix everything. I know, way to make it about me. I’m working on it).  But, I wanted to add that the cold thing is absolutely true. Putting something cold completely over your face or on the back of your neck helps slow your heart rate. When I was a preteen I had totally uncontrolled panic attacks (not even things I could link to anything - I would just start shaking and hyperventilating) and my mom did this. To this day even washing my hands with cold water is one of the ways to chill me out best. It’s also important to talk to people (when they’re not panicking) about their specific triggers since this advice is super good but won’t work for everyone. Asking me what I want you to do during a panic attack would freak me RIGHT the fuck out. Asking me what I want you to do ANY time would freak me out.
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littlemissciswitch:

grantaire-put-that-bottle-down:

jemimamallard:

thought i would create a powerpoint on this since the post went down well yesterday 

Quite good, but I do suggest fetching them something cool (water would be best, but a bottle of soda could work to). Drinking can help, as can resting the bottle on the back of their neck

important

very important

I: am in fact the biggest dick ever (I ALWAYS tell people [read: Jess] to calm down because I don’t know what to do and I feel like a failure when I can’t fix everything. I know, way to make it about me. I’m working on it). 

But, I wanted to add that the cold thing is absolutely true. Putting something cold completely over your face or on the back of your neck helps slow your heart rate. When I was a preteen I had totally uncontrolled panic attacks (not even things I could link to anything - I would just start shaking and hyperventilating) and my mom did this. To this day even washing my hands with cold water is one of the ways to chill me out best.

It’s also important to talk to people (when they’re not panicking) about their specific triggers since this advice is super good but won’t work for everyone. Asking me what I want you to do during a panic attack would freak me RIGHT the fuck out. Asking me what I want you to do ANY time would freak me out.

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yousexything-tardis:

babascupboard:

Note: The cure for asthma is not, “Just breathe!”, and the cure for cancer is not, “Stop growing those cells!” Similarly, the cure for depression is not, “Just be happier!”, and the cure for anxiety is not, “Stop worrying so much!” These are not phases of life for teenagers and the weak-minded - they are serious and chronic medical illnesses.

And the cure for trauma-related issues like PTSD and dissociation is not “Let it go!:

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timetochangecampaign: Time to Change campaigns to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination by getting people talking about mental illness. One in four of us will be affected by a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Often the fact that it’s difficult to talk about mental health problems can be one of the hardest parts of having a mental illness. It can lead to the loss of friendships, feeling isolated, not seeking help and slower recovery.  It doesn’t have to be this way. Talking about mental health can strengthen friendships, aid recovery, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects us all. Find out more about us, read stories from our incredible bloggers or pledge to talk about mental illness.
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timetochangecampaign:

Time to Change campaigns to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination by getting people talking about mental illness.

One in four of us will be affected by a mental health problem at some point in our lives.

Often the fact that it’s difficult to talk about mental health problems can be one of the hardest parts of having a mental illness. It can lead to the loss of friendships, feeling isolated, not seeking help and slower recovery. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. Talking about mental health can strengthen friendships, aid recovery, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects us all.

Find out more about us, read stories from our incredible bloggers or pledge to talk about mental illness.

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Source: time-to-change.org.uk

taking a tumblr break.

it’s nothing anyone has done, i just tend to use this site as a giant black hole of avoidance and i get nothing done, which then makes me feel terrible about myself, which then makes me want to look at tumblr more instead of doing things.

that and my anxiety about not being worthy of friendship is getting to the point where just watching other people interact makes me feel lesser and where every time i have a dissenting opinion i hate myself or get irrationally upset.

i’m tired of being completely nonfunctional, especially when i’m AWARE how stupid i’m being. i need to get off the internet and clear my head.

TW: institutionalized ableism, abuse, violence, torture (potential seizure trigger in the video)

update/more info on the earlier info I posted, from Mother Jones, via disabledtalk

disabledtalk:

We had already planned to focus a week on education, disability, and ableism.  Unfortunately, this coincided with fresh news about just how much a problem ableism and education are. Please be warned that the video included in this article is extremely difficult to watch, and very triggering. The trigger warnings also go for the text, but especially for the video.

Teen Is Tied Down, Shocked By Teachers at “School” for Autistic Kids

“In 2007, we ran a devastating exposé of the Judge Rotenberg Center, a “school” that took mentally and psychologically troubled kids from across the country and treated them by hooking them up to electrodes and shocking them whenever they misbehaved or displayed symptoms of their disorders, like autism. Reports from former students and staff were horrific, and Jennifer Gonnerman’s extensive reporting helped launch or fortify state and local investigations into the school, and its founder Matthew Israel. Yet despite the investigations and ongoing lawsuits, the school managed to stay open.

Last month the school was targeted by Anonymous, which released a video condemning the “torture” of its students. But the video that may truly take down Rotenberg for good is below. Just yesterday this footage of a Rotenberg student being restrained and shocked for hours was played in a Massachusetts courtroom:

(EDIT:  We received a message pointing out that some people have been reporting seizure triggers in the video, so please be warned.  It can be seen at the source, motherjones.com,  but again be aware that it is extremely triggering.)

The disturbing video, which Boston’s Fox 25 received permission to air despite the objections of Rotenberg’s lawyers, shows a 2002 incident in which 18-year-old Andre McCollins was restrained, face-down, on the floor of a classroom, and then given 31 shocks—all because he had refused to take off his coat.

McCollins is currently suing Rotenberg. His mother Cheryl testified yesterday, “I never signed up for him to be tortured, terrorized, and abused. I had no idea—no idea—that they tortured the children in the school.” More footage is expected to be shown in court today.

source @ motherjones.com

As a note, JRC isn’t JUST for kids with autism (kids with mental, behavioral and physical disabilities of all kinds are enrolled there), but that’s how MJ ran it and probably kids somewhere on the autism spectrum do make up a majority of the attendees there, so. Nitpicking.

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handprinted662:

whichisyourplanet:

An updated version of “The Nutritionist” by Andrea Gibson. 

This woman could yawn more eloquently than anything I will ever write or say or hear or experience in my entire lifetime or in any lifetimes to come. 

Beautiful. I wish this version had been on her album.

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy
I have never met a heavy heart 
that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside
Some people will never understand 
the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside
Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house

Full text/lyrics here.

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fiveroundsrapid: ladyyatexel: therothwoman: quiethoof-bookpony: dysfunctionaltavros: literatetaurine: qichi: pyrrhiccomedy: All of my internet friends have had a horrible day today and I didn’t know how to help so I drew a worried owl for you all his name is Boggle oh!! ;_; thank you boggle Boggle,  you’re such a cutie. It seems that I am this owl when it comes to some people I know I love Boggle. I love Boggle so much. This is the best idea. I am in love with this owl. yes yes yes I am this owl. I am probably also in need of reminders from this owl. Loooove.
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fiveroundsrapid:

ladyyatexel:

therothwoman:

quiethoof-bookpony:

dysfunctionaltavros:

literatetaurine:

qichi:

pyrrhiccomedy:

All of my internet friends have had a horrible day today and I didn’t know how to help

so I drew a worried owl for you all

his name is Boggle

oh!! ;_; thank you boggle

Boggle,  you’re such a cutie.

It seems that I am this owl when it comes to some people I know

I love Boggle. I love Boggle so much.

This is the best idea.

I am in love with this owl.

yes yes yes

I am this owl. I am probably also in need of reminders from this owl. Loooove.

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Exclusive: Could DSM-5 Be Harmful to Your Mental Health? – WMC blog

The APA diagnostic manual revision process, in the news recently over the definition of autism, holds other potential threats for women’s health. Elayne Clift investigates the gender issues in DSM-5.

After a reread, I will comment that I think the lead-in is an unnecessary example; while it’s a perfectly legit experience for someone to be misdiagnosed or overdiagnosed a few times, it comes off a little bit …smarmy or self-righteous. But there are important points in here: the US pharmaceutical and psychiatric industry definitely has flaws in diagnosis and especially treatment. 

Also I’m not sure why BPD got brought up, as it’s still in the DSM-IV. Probably because it’s been so controversially used, and often has become the subject of “crazy lady” media stereotypes like Fatal Attraction, a way to pathologize and stigmatize women for being volatile and self-destructive in a society that expects them to both be nothing but emotional and stop being emotional all the damn time. The problem is, a few of the disorders they’re complaining about being added to the DSM-5 are legitimate for many people as well as being pathologizing for them and others who are not legitimately ill, whereas the criteria for something like “sexual dysfunction” is hugely misogynist and not likely to be a symptom of mental illness.

Sooo yeah. I recommend the article, but with a critical eye.

it would be amazing if i could not have panic attacks for like, a day.

like, it’s not even ABOUT anything at this point. just, constant panic. followed occasionally by depressive slump and/or angry-at-everything.

unfairly enough, one of my seizure meds is more commonly used as an anti-anxiety medication, and i know from having to take an extra one that it chills me out (it’s a weird experience to go “hmm. something feels different? OH SHIT IT’S THAT I’M NOT WORRYING”). but if i started doing that kind of unprescribed stuff not only would i run out sooner and have no doctor monitoring it, i KNOW i’d be addicted to doing that emotionally and probably physically shortly thereafter (it’s EXTREMELY addictive and a couple days without it once sent me to the ER).

so that is not a solution. and yet i just want someone to hand me a goddamn -azepam of some kind and shut up my brain.

a life of fragments: (trigger warning; talk of eating disorders)

vikkiage:

Can there be like a Tumblr Fat-People-Who-Had-Eating-Disorders-And-Are-Willing-To-Talk-About-It Action Team and like whenever someone says “but thin people have it just as bad; sometimes they suggest that I have an eating disorder” we jump into our superhero costumes and explain…

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When Is Suicide Not Suicide? When You're Pregnant | Care2 Causes

Today, the Indiana Court of Appeals heard testimony on the case of Bei Bei Shuai, the pregnant woman who ingested rat poison in a suicide attempt, causing her to go into preterm labor at 33 weeks to a baby girl that died soon after.

Shuai, who survived her attempted suicide only to be arrested and held without bail since this March, has become the poster child for the question as to whether the rights of a fetus actually outweigh the rights of the woman who carries it.  Ironically, she has now been imprisoned for nine months — longer than she ever carried the baby girl that she is accused of murdering.

Numerous groups have filed friend of the court briefings, asking for the state to release Shuai because you cannot be prosecuted for a suicide attempt.  But the state has been determined to see the case not as a suicide attempt, but as an act of murder of a viable fetus, and is punishing her to the fullest extent that they can.