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the sexual tension betwen me and never speaking to anyone again

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i don’t know anything about culture i am just at my house

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little miss obsessed with love but doesn't believe it will happen to her

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Dialogue Prompt #265

“When I imagined this year, aliens were not on my list of possibilities.”

“They’re not aliens.” 

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I feel myself coming unstitched from the world. I can’t seem to make myself adjust.

Molly McCully Brown, from Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays

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“She never saw God in her fits— not the way the others did: what if God was a vulture licking her clean, her words a machine-hand rigging her legs back as she sang, her mind a sack of apologies emptied.”

— Rochelle Hurt, “The Humility of St. Teresa of Ávila,” published in Tupelo Quarterly (via ratmessiah)

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andrei tarkovsky

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also if anyone knows some good resources on psychology, specifically ones that criticize current clinical psychology, please lmk!

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Somatic disorders may be diagnosed in cases where people are experiencing physical symptoms with no identifiable medical cause.  It’s very important to note that in Somatic Symptom Disorder and Conversion Disorder, the individual is experiencing very real symptoms that often cause significant distress.  Somatic disorders are one way that we are able to see that the body and mind are connected and have heavy influence on each other!

Want to see more?  Check out my other DSM-5 posts by clicking the links below!

Paraphilic Disorders

Personality Disorders

Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Critiques of the DSM-5

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can i crack open your ribcage and nestle inside it btw. as friensds