Reminder that I have a super emo book out there where I basically torture my main character (sorry, Kali) as an outlet for my serious & enduring mental illness ๐๐ก
Some people have enjoyed. Can't guarantee you will enjoy. I hope you enjoy.
"Ask for help" but the services are full when we reach out.
"Talk to someone" but the waiting lists are months long.
"It's ok not to be ok" unless we show any "weird" symptoms.
"Take time to get better" but the system punishes us if we take time off work.
They're going to spend an absolute fortune on a ceremonial funeral while thousands go hungry and struggle to pay their energy bills. Then they'll tell people it's disrespectful to be angry or jaded.
Oh the anti-medication lot are out AGAIN
I'm L. I'm 30. I've been in & out of talk therapy multiple times. I (generally) eat well. I exercise regularly. I have a decent career. I own my house. I'm in a loving marriage.
These lil guys still save my stupid lil life every day ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Lots of men asking how to help rn.
Call your pals out. I mean it, this is the biggest one. The single biggest and easiest one you can ALL do.
Derogatory joke about women? Call it out.
Predatory behaviour you rationalise away as "boys being boys"? Call it out.
Not to be too "the youth of today" but tik tok has pathologised every single human behaviour and absolutely trashed the meaning of almost every clinical term relating to neurodivergence or mental illness.
TERFs are imagining that cis men will live as a woman for 3 whole months to get a certificate that let's them bypass imaginary security into womens' bathrooms just to harm women when men already harm women in any location they want without consequence
Found that depression / suicidal ideation takes on a much scarier form as you get older.
The realisation it hasn't got any better and maybe never will. That your life is on a loop despite every attempt to break the cycle. Such a specific & visceral kind of hopelessness
I've been disenchanted recently but after the way Nicola Sturgeon has been treated and how she's carried herself throughout, I'm away to join
@theSNP
for the first time since 2015.
We are entering a point in the UK where mental health awareness days are actively harmful bc it gives the public the false belief they're helping by sharing a post saying "it's OK not to be OK" whilst actually doing nothing and bc it takes away the focus from service failings.
Disabled/sick people shouldn't have to offer up their life story in an attempt to re-humanise themselves to you before you think their life is worth protecting ffs.
Hey baby girl, are you a historic Glasgow building that a private developer was recently denied planning permission For? bc you are on FIRE ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Truth is that people get fed up of you being mentally unwell eventually. The sympathy turns to apathy or frustration. They'll act sad when you die, maybe they'll even genuinely BE sad. They'll call it a tragedy & a waste. But when you're alive? A chronic inconvenience
Honestly you can rarely just graft your way out of a chronic serious & persistent mental illness. That's not defeatist, it's pragmatic & it's acceptance that lets you move forward
When you're chronically suicidal for years and years, living is a choice you make every single day.
It sucks that if one day you make a different choice, that's all people will see. Like it was one choice, one time, instead of hundreds over and over again.
S/O to the people who've been chronically mentally ill their entire life and thought they weren't really *that* unwell until they got some kind of wake up call in adulthood & were left like "oh...OK then"
Davina McCall tweeting WAAAAH why won't someone think of the MEN?? in a week that started with IWD and saw a pregnant woman accused of lying about racism, bullying & suicidal thoughts and another murdered by a police officer whilst walking home is the shit cherry on top of it all
Rumour has it that the queue for the Download car park is now so long it has merged with the back of the queue of people still queuing for food at Slam Dunk
@GlasgowNPolice
Milton & the surrounding area is one of the most deprived areas in Glasgow but thank christ they've got you looking out and protecting them from folk stealing milk. Another win for Glasgow police.
I was so terrified to go on sertraline bc of fear of side effects and let me tell you the biggest side effect has been not wanting to kill myself anymore. Big wins in this camp.
Talk about women in a dehumanising, over-sexualised way? Call it out.
Calls women derogatory slurs? Call it out.
Blames victims because they "should have/shouldn't have"? Call it out.
Call out your friends and your relatives and your colleagues.
Don't shout at women in the street. Don't leer at them or stare at them. Don't toot your stupid wee horn at them as you pass. Don't whistle at them. None of that is "harmless". If you do any of those you're actively contributing to a society of dehumanising women.
@metpoliceuk
IDK if anybody told you but Wayne Couzens was literally a serving police officer, as were the officers implicated in the group chat, so this would have made no difference. No matter how much you try to confuse the issue, we won't suddenly forget he was a police officer.
@elfbiter
@Tanukitsune
Would understand folk camping out for a burger more than I do for an unelected nonce-protecting family of inherited coloniser wealth in a country where people are starving tbh xxxxxxxx
It's every mentally ill persons least favourite day tomorrow
Happy empty-awareness-campaigns-whilst-we-continue-to-die-lost-in-insufficient-services day!
TW // suicide
How hard is it for crisis teams to say something like "a part of you reached out to us who wants to stay here so let's try to talk to that part" instead of "you phoned us so you must be fine really bc if you wanted to then you would".
As a mentally ill person I feel trapped between full time work which I'm too unwell for and financial difficulty with no safety net.
This country hates us. Don't call yourself an advocate for suicide prevention if you aren't for a universal basic income.
It is interesting that a specific demographic on Twitter finds this mild criticism of the monarchy institution "vile" but deaths of thousands or millions and its crickets ๐ค
I really want to stress to younger people that it does get better. My life is night and day compared to my teens & early 20s. Its so so much better.
But its just...different. When it feels like you've hit the same low point over and over for decades
@babsbear
@AnneAnnaAnnie
Please do NOT go through her phone. As a teenager who hid self harm and suicidal ideation I'm an adult who still panics when people go through things even though I have nothing to hide. Young people need to know they're supported and also have somewhere they feel safe to "vent".
Bc this is Twitter & every single human experience must be captured:
Not saying there's not helpful communication, information or peer support on there.
Just saying that there's also a ton of misinformation on there and no, drinking coke isn't self-medicated ADHD ๐
The amount of privacy William and Kate are getting right now when there would have been ENDLESS speculation about Harry & Meghan proves everything H&M said about the media machine + palace was completely accurate
I get incredibly frustrated with people (even when well-meaning) who insist you can just "get help" from the NHS for your mental health. Like literally you can just call any GP or CMHT team and ask for an immediate fix.
Like that's such a fairytale it's unreal.
I hate when people confuse "mentally healthy" with "mentally strong" bc I guarantee I'm mentally stronger than people who've been mentally healthy their whole life for the same reason people who lift weights everyday are physically stronger than me.
Oh hey fellow mentally ill lovelies ๐ glad this has resonated with people
If you want to support a girl in her mentally ill endeavours & enjoy reading fantasy, my book is a giant metaphor for my experience with mental illness & has some nice reviews!
I'm so jealous of people who have their life together but are also mentally ill. Literally what am I doing wrong that I feel like I'm sprinting as hard as I can and moving nowhere
I've worked full time during a mental health crisis
@RishiSunak
. It made me far more unwell & took years to recover. I think I did permanent damage by forcing myself to work through it.
You've never done a day of hard work in your life. What the HELL would you know about it?
Can't bring myself to share something I've just read about the Croydon stabbing but this is awful awful proof that misogyny kills.
Your Andrew Tates, Laurence Fox's, Donald Trumps of the world foster this & it has real world consequences.
I hate being 30 and truly not knowing if I want kids. I will not put my body through pregnancy or bring a human being(s) into the world "just in case" but I turned 30 last month & am very scared the decision will be taken from me?
Hello. I'm sick of
#WorldMentalHealthDay
I want mentally ill voices centred today. I want to boost multiply-marginalised mentally ill people. I want to focus on complex, severe & enduring mental illness.
Drop your art, articles, blog, stories below. Connect with each other
There is literally NO need for predatory men to pretend to be women when they hurt us all the time without punishment already you just want to hate a marginalised group
It's funny how "hard choices" for the economy are always targeted at the elderly, the sick, and the poor but they never start with MP expenses or their subsidised lunches
Watch the UK media fall over itself to crucify Nicola Sturgeon whilst barely blinking an eye at the fact Boris Johnson lied to Parliament and his cabinet gave PPE contracts to inexperienced pals during a pandemic that saw us have the biggest death rate in Europe (World?).
People now using "mental health" as a dog whistle for anti-COVID restrictions/COVID denial when they did not care about mental health or illness before has given me a new kind of rage.
@bmthofficial
@adtr
@poorstacy
@LornaShore
ADTR have never once addressed the multiple allegations about their band mate, to the point they stopped tweeting to avoid accountability. Please do the right thing by your female fans and make the scene safer for us and don't tour with them.
There is no crushing hopelessness quite like being chronically mentally ill when services have failed you multiple times & you know there's no point reaching out anymore.
Happy
#WorldMentalHealthDay
!
It's officially been 1 whole week since I drove to my cmht suicidal & crying saying I didn't think I could keep myself safe & they sent me home without seeing me.
But ๐ซ it's OK to not be OK ๐ซ
Drove to CMHT & called them to say I didn't feel I could keep myself safe & was in the car park.
Duty nurse phoned me back, didn't ask me to come in so had a convo over the phone in the car. Said I didn't know where go but I felt unsafe.
"Right. And why are you here?"
TERFs love a "We are the daughters of the witches you couldn't burn ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ"
Lmfaoooo please, you're the daughters of the women who threw other women on the pyre bc you valued your own safety in the status quo more than other women.
As a chronic mental person, I genuinely couldn't give less of a ๐ฉ if you said "wow that crazy!" or "it was insane!!" bc I'm far too concerned with year long waiting lists and inadequate treatment options but whatever makes you feel like you're helping I guess.
What is more believable?
That Alex Salmond in an arrogant and misogynistic creep or that the SNP made up a conspiracy about him for no reason during a pandemic, Brexit and an upcoming election? ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Watching Scrubs back in the day is thinking Dr Cox is the bad guy and watching it as an adult is realising he's the only one who's not an absolutely terrible person.
I just turned 30. The idea of being in a relationship with a 16 year old is utterly utterly utterly repulsive. He is a groomer
and a predator, can't understand how anyone is defending this creep.
#C4dispatches
Being rich would not cure my mental illness, but not having to worry about the ability to stay housed, fed, and safe would eliminate most of what makes my mental health worse.
BTW not all men but yes:
- Your pal that calls women "slags" etc
- Your pal that thinks it's a "laugh" to shout at women as they drive past.
- Your pal that gets spiteful when a woman rejects them.
- Your pal that shares or shows private images without consent.
Truly baffled by the rage this has elicited from people. It's a general criticism of the mass inequality perpetuated by British institutions like the monarchy & HoL, not a dig at one individual or making fun at anyone's expense, and it was tweeted hours before any announcement
The tories are dehumanising refugees, banning your right to protest, starving people in their homes whilst giving themselves pay rises, and controlling state media to silence their critics.
We are not on our way to fascism. We are already there.
Fuck. Every. Single. Tory.
@SumerianRecords
Literally when did anyone ask Sumerian Records the music label to give a formal statement on public health and science in general, though?
Being mentally ill in the UK is basically choosing between working yourself to death or living in poverty, frequently sub-standard or non-existent NHS treatment, and anti-suicide campaigns designed to tell people to "reach out" without addressing any of these issues.