Okay but it blows my mind that there are actually people that only feel anxiety sometimes???

TW: ABLEISM

Since being diagnosed with BPD, I’ve begun looking for resources to figure out more of how I can best help myself as I’m able, or at least how I can ask others to support me. I’ve found some great resources, but I’ve found a disturbing amount of other resources mixed in, and it’s horrific. It makes my stomach twist, and I honestly don’t know how to respond. Below, I’m going to list just a few of the pages I found when looking for support resources.

A Guide to Leaving a Partner with Borderline Personality Disorder

At Any Cost: Saving Your Life After Loving a Borderline

How To Train Your Borderline

Divorcing Borderline Psychopath

I feel sick. Normally I would have a long, well-articulated rant in response to something as awful as this, but all I feel is ill. I have no words for this. This is what people think of BPD.

Boy howdy I sure do love anxiety attacks. Anyone who ever uses OCD as an adjective is going to get a pencil through the trachea because OCD isn’t some temporary thing that you feel when you clean- it’s a fucking illness and it’s a nightmare.

I Need to Follow More People

I’m only following like 120 people and I need more non-fandom content on my dash. I mean, if you post fandom stuff that’s okay, I just need something to break up the Undertale revolution. :’D

I want to check out and maybe talk to more spoonies, non-binary people, and so on. Basically I’ll just list what I’m looking for- feel free to reblog as a signal boost, just tag it as ‘signal boost’. Tag otherwise or don’t tag and I’ll go check your blog! 

Looking For People Who Are or Who Blog About:

• Spoonies/Chronic Illness ((All kinds, but narcolepsy, cataplexy, and chronic pain specifically are relevant to me.))
  
• Transgender/Nonbinary People
• Neuroatypical People ((Again, all kinds, but the ones specific to me are BPD, OCD, PTSD, GAD, and Depression))
• College Students ((I just started college and I just keep blogging about my experience and would follow people who blog about their, too!))

So, if you’re any/all of the above, hit me up with a reblog! Mention in the tags which apply to you, and if you’re just boosting, tag as signal boost.

Having a mental illness does not give you a “get out of jail free” card. It provides context and an explanation for your actions. It shows that you need to review the problem much differently than if you’d done something intentionally, but you still need to be held accountable for your actions.

If your mental illness causes emotional abusive outbursts, don’t use your diagnosis to justify this time after time. Remind the people around that this is why it happens, but work together on a way to handle the situation and prevent it. Once the situation settles, apologize when you know you need to. Even when you didn’t mean to do something harmful, intent doesn’t matter. Apologize when you do something hurtful.

Be responsible for your actions.

You should be treated with care and with patience, but you should not dismiss the consequences of your actions just because they are caused by your mental illness.

Breaking News: Mentally ill people don’t have to hate themselves and the illnesses they have in order for you to see them as a “genuine neuroatypical™”.

It’s actually much less common for a neuroatypical person to only have one diagnosis, really. A lot of neurotypical people don’t care to realize just how much mental illnesses tend to intersect. So, honestly, it’s not that far-fetched for someone to have depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and other illnesses in tandem.

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graciegirrl014:

Having depression does NOT mean you are sad 100% of the time.

Having an eating disorder does NOT mean you have to be skinny

Having social anxiety does NOT mean can’t ever talk to people.

Having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder does NOT mean you are constantly cleaning.

Stereotypes of these serious mental illnesses and many others need to stop.

HAVING TOURETTES DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU RANDOMLY YELL CUSS WORDS

I will 100% judge you by the way you talk about/treat people on the autism spectrum, people with mental illnesses, and people with learning disabilities. 

I am perpetually fluctuating between complete emptiness and insurmountable sadness.

Things Nobody Talks About, About OCD

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There’s starting to be a lot more option discussion on disorders that aren’t GAD, disorders with more stigma, and that is absolutely great. Yet, somehow, OCD is still getting thrown under the bus. The main reason for that being people like to water OCD down and lump it off as something two-dimensional, when it’s anything but. So here’s a little comprehensive to give a rundown from someone with it, rather than the paragraph explanation you get in a textbook.

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((TW: Self-harm.))

Today’s episode really hit home for me- and I think it did for a lot of other people, also.

Mike’s been my favorite character since I first saw him. I’ve always related to him, and to an extent, his struggles. I guess I could go as far to say that I see myself in Mike.

Although I don’t have MPD, I do suffer from multiple mental disorders, primarily anxiety, depression, and panic disorder. I think it’s because of this that I really resonated with him.

In today’s episode (and throughout the season thus far), the series has taken a dark turn. Although the show is normally lighthearted in nature, the truth of the matter is that this show is dealing with mental illness- something that is dead serious.

We saw Mike hit an extreme. He’s struggled all his life to just be himself- hell, I’m sure a lot of his adolescence was desperately trying to figure out who he was in the midst of all of his alters. Then in the last season, something clicked and he was finally beginning to get a handle on his disorder. He gained a sort of confidence, even allowing his alters to take control of his body as needed. Though all of a sudden, something has happened, and Mike has lost that control he worked so hard to grasp. He thought he was well on his way to recovery, and now he’s more lost and confused that he was before.

A lot of people struggling with mental illness know this experience too well. And like Mike did, they caved in and turned to self-injury to try and make it better. I don’t care how the show wants to go about describing it or explaining it- Mike intentionally injured himself out of the desperation and pain that was holding his heart in a vice grip. And to top it off, what pushed him over the edge was the thought of burdening and hurting the ones he loves.

This is some dark stuff we’re getting into- and sadly it’s a haunting reality for myself and many others. We’re talking about the vicious cycle of losing control, desperation, giving up, self-injury; the fear that you’ll hurt the ones you care about. This is some really scary shit.

And it’s a bit jarring that this is all coming from a show like Total Drama.