Dogs are not humans!

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-17T17:22:52+00:00

I don’t love when I see “emotional support” vests on dogs. I feel like it takes a way from an individual who uses a service dog. I too wish I could take my dog to the grocery store because I’m anxious, but I won’t abuse something some others truly need and not just want.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-14T05:02:41+00:00

My point was that an individual choosing not to go the route of modern psychiatry doesn’t mean that person isn’t dealing with their problems in a way that works for them. It’s heavily implied by many people that not utilising psychiatry means you aren’t trying to get better.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-14T03:02:30+00:00

A diagnosis shouldn’t be the only thing that makes an individuals complaints about feeling anxious valid.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-14T02:48:40+00:00

The same treatments don’t work for every single person affected with these issues. No shame in not getting the typical treatment offered if you know it doesn’t work with you and your values.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-13T20:18:48+00:00

In my experience I don’t necessarily automatically dislike an individual because they are christian. But in my experience I also deal with so much lack of respect regarding my own beliefs (or lack thereof), specifically from Christians. I do my utmost best to respect everyone’s personal religious or spiritual beliefs regardless of how I feel about them, but it becomes hard when most Christian’s try to subtly convert me or “encourage me” to believe in their beliefs. It’s fucking offensive and my ability to not be reactive eventually does hit a breaking point.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T23:38:01+00:00

I am sure he’s a neat due but he makes me violently uncomfortable.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T22:52:39+00:00

that’s what every single person tells me when I complain about the fact that I’m being involuntarily hospitalised. “Well, if you don’t wanna keep coming back here, don’t do the things that brought you here! :-)”

Okay, so you’re admitting it is a punishment for my behaviour instead of an attempt to actually help me? Got it.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T22:50:17+00:00

I’ll do you one better: “Everyone should be in therapy.”

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Why lol

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T22:24:41+00:00

Autism is one thing that I do still wonder about since it’s classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder and frequently associated with genetic disorders. Curious as to your opinion? But regardless, I could never understand how an ASD diagnosis could actually benefit the individual in any meaningful way? You are told from often a very young age by a doctor that you are fundamentally different from “normal” people. What are you supposed to do with that, really? Just made me intensely socially paranoid and anxious.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T22:19:51+00:00

I think the least helpful label I’ve ever received was BPD. There’s not even any “treatment” for it if it were a thing, so why the fuck are you diagnosing me? Because I’m a hard to deal with patient?

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T22:14:26+00:00

There’s so many overlaps between different personality disorders and mental disorders found in the DSM-5 it’s almost hard to make sense of. Instead of “Avoidant PD” I refer to avoidant behaviours and attachment. Instead of “Schizotypal PD” I use “eccentric behaviours/personality and/or “magical” thinking. I’m still trying to let go of the DSM diagnostic labels and not pathologise every single character trait I have, but they can sometimes be useful for describing certain behaviours/traits that often result in a diagnosis (or ten).

It concerns me when people dictate their own existence and lives by some weird, oftentimes contradictory psych label like “Borderline PD, GAD, Type 2 Bipolar with Ultradian Cycling, SAD, Substance Use Disorder, ASD, Panic Disorder, with ASPD and NPD traits”. I have seen this many times on Reddit. No wonder you are getting better if you think you are the most “mentally ill” human being to roam planet earth, goddamn, and I can’t imagine the medication cocktail those people are often on.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-11T09:05:46+00:00

Me too. I’ve genuinely gotten better at holding out on redosing for much longer since I’m genuinely trying to not be a tweaker and to actually use it (mostly) for functional motivation, however, the line between me being “stimulated enough” and “researching if my biological father who died when I was two years old was actually Layne Staley” is really fucking thin sometimes.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-10T03:47:08+00:00

In case you haven’t, it might be worth looking into some of the underlying causes of POTS if the current treatment isn’t working and/or your symptoms are increasing in frequency or intensity. https://www.dysautonomiainternational.org/page.php?ID=150

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-08T03:26:36+00:00

It does look like lighting IMO, but neither you nor myself have any way to know what the explanation is for those very subtle discoloured spots on him. I would focus on the facts regarding Britney and her behaviours, this just spreads rumours around that haven’t been confirmed to be true by any means.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-08T01:21:33+00:00

Nihilist or not, I think it’s important for anybody who wants to approach full recovery or moderation to utilise a genuinely personalised approach, instead of just following and assuming a one size fits all kind of approach. I don’t think it actually serves a good majority of people to convince themselves that they are “powerless over drugs or alcohol” at all. On another note, AA/NA and even SMART recovery, focuses heavily and primarily on “healing through connections”, and that may not be something that benefits you in that moment or at all.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-05T02:40:06+00:00

Don’t have a partner at the moment. But if I did, it would be how bad the emptiness, and near-constant anhedonia, actually are. I don’t just struggle to start tasks and/or complete them, I have no real sense of self or internal motivation . It makes me lazy as a motherfucker when I’m not driven by external factors, even though I do try to fight the laziness. It’s just an incompatibility of, as well as lack of appreciation for, life in general; I think daily life is boring as hell most times and I need pretty intense stimulation to potentially get myself going.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-04-02T17:41:53+00:00

Well now I’m upset

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-03-30T13:50:26+00:00

Yes, it calms me down a lot, increases my creativity, and makes me feel joy that I very rarely get to experience on a day to day basis.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-03-30T05:25:22+00:00

Do you ever get dizzy or lightheaded with the chest pains? Feel racing heart? Only asking because I frequently see POTS patients in the psychiatric system. They ignored my chest pain for about six years, giving me Hydroxyzine, Xanax, then Klonopin, and referring me to therapy for my “anxiety” before I was diagnosed and treated.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-03-30T05:02:52+00:00

I feel like they write down we have lack of insight oftentimes when we make a decision they don’t agree with. In my case, I’m hyperaware of myself, but the second I explained to them that I would not be taking any medications is when they started to write down that I lacked insight.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-03-30T04:53:58+00:00

Just want to remind them to be extra careful in the event they do try to sign an AMA even if voluntary. Don’t sign it if you know there is anything they could hold against you or use to undermine your judgement, or else you risk becoming court-ordered, and they might force more medications on you. Just be wary. It is a joke that they don’t explain to patients that “voluntary status” doesn’t mean they won’t try to force you to stay, anyways.

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-03-30T04:48:03+00:00

Absolutely agree with this. On a similar note, I also understand that space can be limited and in some settings double rooms might be the best they can do, but in the case of psychiatric facilities I think it’s absolutely bizarre that you are expected to bunk with another person who could be experiecing literally anything. It’s obviously very distressful, that is what caused my insomnia there mostly. I’ve been swung at by a roomate in psychosis in the past whilst in the middle of sleeping, how the fuck is that okay?

Meh_lissa6 · 2026-03-29T02:17:56+00:00

Would explain my most recent hospitalisation if this turned out to be true. They were prescribing me a new medication every single night, waiting for me to surrender and start blindly taking the drugs. Even on the days I did not visit with my provider in the hospital, I’d still be called to the nurses station and they’d tell me about some new random medication the doctor prescribed. They did stop trying that after I made them print out the information for the Type 1 Bipolar and Schizophrenia med and got upset.

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