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Ten years ago I started a blog I was too scared to put my name on. Now Diary of a Flopping Fish is an LLC — still one woman, no ads, no AI articles, no data collection.
What started as creative writing became a space for survivors of coercive control to have a voice.
The fish is still flopping. Just forward now.
Full update at diaryofafloppingfish.com
CW: mental health, self-diagnosis
When mental health language gets hijacked, it strips away the words real patients rely on. And self-diagnosing from TikTok can mean walking away from treatment that could actually help.
https://www.diaryofafloppingfish.com/post/social-media-and-mental-health-the-folly-of-self-diagnosis
I wrote about this recently — including the post-2020 research on tics, the DID trend, and why "gaslighting" doesn't mean what the internet thinks it means.
#MentalHealth #SelfDiagnosis #SocialMedia #MentalHealthAwareness#MentalHealthAwareness
When I took Abnormal Psychology at Delta Community College it wasn't long before I was questioning whether or not I had every disorder in the book that I had never even considered that I might have or heard of before. When the book stated something along the lines of "most people diagnose themselves with various disorders while reading this book" I breathed a huge sigh of relief
When I took Abnormal Psychology at Delta Community College it wasn't long before I was questioning whether or not I had every disorder in the book that I had never even considered that I might have or heard of before. When the book stated something along the lines of "most people diagnose themselves with various disorders while reading this book" I breathed a huge sigh of relief
Today I’d like to write a bit of an update and to reassure everyone that I’m not gone. Diary of a Flopping Fish is still moving along, thought it is going quite slowly. As I have written about before, it if very hard to balance other obligations and expectations while still have enough left in […]
Managing symptoms of CPTSD can be difficult, especially since medications have such a low success rate and the symptoms are so pervasive. Trying to regulate ourselves and manage our various symptoms leads to self-isolation, which often keeps us stationary indoors. Because of physical trauma, many who live with CPTSD feel uncomfortable and disconnected from their […]