The next fucking person who says that female on male rape doesn’t happen is going to get fucking socked by me don’t fucking DARE say that my best friend who I’ve known for fucking 16 years just talked to me about his rape and he was close to tears. He didn’t deserve that. Those cunts who raped him need to fucking die in a ditch I want them all to fucking rot.
Me: yeah so I just don’t have the energy to get up and make myself a sandwich or wait for something to cook so I just. Don’t
Her: why don’t you just eat the sandwich components without putting them together
Me:
Her: you can just eat a handful of cheese and some sandwich meat. You don’t have to make a sandwich.
Me:
Me: what
Therapists finding loopholes for mental illness things is one of my favorite things about dealing with mental illness because it really helps me understand that just because a reaction is Common doesn’t mean it’s Right. Does doing dishes stress you out a lot? Buy paper plates. Do your obsessive thoughts make you worry about leaving your curling iron on so you drive home from work to check? Just put the curling iron in your purse and bring it to work with you while we work on tackling where this worry comes from. Symptom management doesn’t have to look like drudgery.
i used to go days without showering because seeing my body was so upsetting that i would end up spiraling and then i realized i could simply turn the lights out. it took some getting used to but i’ve been showering with the lights off for years and it’s now one of my favorite parts of my day.
do whatever you want nothing is real and there’s no need to inflict unnecessary suffering on yourself just to try to seem “normal”
I love this post
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These kinds of loopholes make life so. Much. Better.
One of my favorite stories is this lady had extremely bad OCD. Every day she’d be late to work because she was convinced that her hair dryer was going to burn down the house so would always have to turn around and check it. Multiple times a day even. A bunch of doctors tied to “fix” her of that fear, until one day she got a doctor that suggested she bring the hair dryer with her. Other doctors were annoyed, saying that wasn’t a the correct way to help, but she gave it a go. When she had that fear, she’d look over and see the hair dryer unplugged in the seat next to her and was able to carry on. I think it’s such a perfect example of actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard.
That story helped me stop repeatedly checking if my front door was locked. Instead of checking that the door was locked over and over I would check my security system app. If it’s on it will alert me if the front door opens.
“…actually helping someone instead of forcing them into a neurotypical standard” should be added to the Hippocratic Oath.
Started reading about the door and I thought they were gonna say they took the door with them
My uncle was a cop with LAPD for years, and one time he and his partner answered a 911 call from this lady who was convinced that some agency (the government, Illuminati, aliens, whatever) was listening in on her thoughts, and she was an emotional wreck and hadn’t slept for a while.
My uncle wasn’t a therapist and this was way before mental health awareness was what it is now. Nevertheless he and his partner wanted to help so they let her in on “a little secret” that only government people knew and they “weren’t allowed to tell her” but would anyway. They told her to pick a closet in her house, line the walls with aluminum foil, and sprinkle baking soda on the floor. Then, whenever she felt like “they” were listening in, she could go into the closet which would “disrupt the waves” and keep her safe.
A couple days later the lady called into the station to thank my uncle, saying that his instructions had worked and that she felt much better. Perhaps it wasn’t the solution a therapist would use, but it was enough to help one mentally ill woman get a little peace and rest.
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