SuperfreqAug 8, 2023
I'm confused. As someone who has 2 close family members with #DissociativeIdentityDisorder previously called #MultiplePersonalityDisorder Where did all of these people with #plural in their bios come from recently? Is this a common perception of other #MentalIllness too? Is it a lifestyle thing? Are people just more comfortable to be seen now?
#OSDD
#DID
#Plurality
#PluralTalk
#pluralgang
#psychology
#psychiatry
#MentalHealth
#psychotherapy
#Therapy
#neurodivergent
#neurodiversity
Show threadKat RavenwolfAug 10, 2023
@Superfreq I have seen that...some people know that they have different personalities in their head, and before (or if) they are even diagnosed with a mental disorder, they do that so that they can deal with it better on their own...At least I think from knowing some folks who see themselves that way. I, too, am neurodivergent, though I have no interest in seeing what the medical establishment would potentially label me, because guaranteed they would. That's my thoughts on it, anyway.
Show threadSuperfreq
@cambridgeport90
Can't really blame them given the state of mental health support honestly. We shouldn't have to DIY it but sometimes that's the best way anyway.
Thanks for sharing your POV.
Aug 10, 2023 at 12:10amWeb
Show threadKat RavenwolfAug 10, 2023
@Superfreq No problem at all. Psychiatrists, and to a lesser extent, psychologists, need to start looking at things a bit differently. Just because someone is different, doesn't make them ill.
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
It is horribly tough though and some harm will always be done.
Do you say if it's hurting them it's bad? Okay but how much of that is society causing the problem. Should we push people to change just for others? And what if it's more good than bad.
What if they want to change. Well okay, but is it for good reasons? Do we even have the right to say what's a good reason? And what about those who don't want to change, yet are still harming people. How do you measure harm anyway?
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
Really, the only way to make sure you aren't screwing people over by imposing "normality" on them is to never attempt it at all. But you can't do that if they threaten you, and morally you can't let them hurt them selves or others either.
If you live in society, you are expected to follow it's rules. The problem is when you can't help but not, or the rules are shit.
Show threadKat RavenwolfAug 10, 2023
@Superfreq You have to learn to resist, if you can; though I agree, the ones who are hurting others, something definitely needs to be done for them. Note how I say for them, not about them. I though about suicide a few times in 2014, but I never spoke to a psychologist about it. Because I knew who it was taunting me, and that was purely what it was. Most psych professionals probably also don't believe in either demons or the spirit world, for that matter. Their training probably squeezes it out of them.
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
IMO a good mental health professional doesn't care what you believe in, they care about how it's effecting you. They will learn all they can about the way you see the world and try to draw the information out so they can make sense of it in a way that they can understand, so that they can use it to help you.
A good MHP is willing to be a little bit insane when it counts.
Show threadKat RavenwolfAug 10, 2023
@Superfreq Plus, most stuff that happens to me is in my minds eye, so they would have that going for them. I believe that there are beings all around us, and most of them we can't see. The reason for that? Because humanity would try to crush their existence by hiding them behind, say, meds or something. Way too many people are on unnecessary meds as it is.
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
You're ultimately always going to have to choose some guidelines even if they're arbitrary. I guess the best you can do is try to choose the least harmful ones, based on majority rule, expertise, or both.
Show threadKat RavenwolfAug 10, 2023
@Superfreq The cruelest thing I believe that psych professionals do is keep people in some cases sedated on a constant basis. I believe that rehab, not prison, should be the way going forward for those who were clearly diagnosed as insane during trials. It could always be made up, but I have to believe that the majority of people would want to tell the truth. No one is pure evil, in my opinion.
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
Assuming rehab is possible with the techniques we have in their lifetime...
The line is between making them as comfortable as possible and making them safe around them selves and others.
Some DR's just give up and use sedation for convenience because they don't care about the patient any more. Some can't guarantee safety otherwise because of lacking resources. Some patients are genuinely so constantly destructive that we can't do anything else for them except kill them.
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
Not saying it's right, just laying it all out. Either way, it's fucking terrible for the patient and will probably make them far worse than they were before.
Show threadKat RavenwolfAug 10, 2023
@Superfreq It's basically signing up for intentional brain damage when it's long term. A friend of mine was put on Haldol, briefly, and she hopes to never be put on it again. I forget why they did that, though. She didn't like it.
Show threadSuperfreqAug 10, 2023
@cambridgeport90
Ideally it's supposed to be temporary for most conditions, but I agree. We generally have a quick fix, get back to work, shake it off culture in most of the west, and at this point it's hard to say how much of the medical system was formed from that, and how much of the culture has been changed because of the medical system.
Either way, under resourcing mental health assistance isn't helping.