#The chemical imbalance

[purplelurkinghini]

Twitter terrifies me because there's always a chance the IRL people behind any of these Batman projects have come across me being unhinged about their work.

#One of the Batman Unburied writers reblogged my fanart #along with all the other early fanworks under the hashtag #and I was listening to Sam Witwer talk about them being friends and sending each other stuff #AND FROZE #AS MY ANXIETY KICKED IN #because OF COURSE IT DID #The chemical imbalance #or the ancient family curse #OR WHATEVER #is making me paranoid #about my own shitposts #ANYWAAAY #what do I even tag this as #??? #Hashtag MAKING UP SCENARIOS TO SCARE MYSELF #Twitter #? #I just noticed I said 'reblogged' #instead of 'retweet'

[neuroticboyfriend]

do you have "treatment resistant depression" or are you just fundamentally living a life that would make anyone depressed?

are you just dealing with abuse, poverty, and oppression? are you just dealing with a lifetime of trauma? do we just live in a society where peoples basic needs are neglected, and the completely understanble response to that is pathologized? on purpose? so that it's just an individual problem and people arent Trying Enough... so nothing about the system has to change?

...do you have "treatment resistant depression," or do you just need real community, support, resources, and protection?

#yes depression is multifacted so if this post doesnt resonate with you.. just keep fucking scrolling #dont come at me like itS A chEMiCaL imBaLanCe.. #come back to me when you understand the point being made and dont derail. thanks #softspoonie #depression #depressed #treatment resistant depression #depressive disorder #major depressive disorder #oppression #systemic inequality #systemic injustice #systemic ableism #ableism #mental health #mental illness #mentally ill #trauma #complex trauma #ptsd #cptsd #traumatized #abuse survivor #abuse #survivor #antipsychiatry #antipsych #anti psych #anti psychiatry #psychiatry

[metaphysix]

(in my brain!)

{get this as a sticker on redbubble!}

#2000s emo #mcr #the black parade #my chemical romance #gerard way #ray toro #mikey way #frank iero #emo #emo scene #emo blog #mental illness #neurodivergency #my chemical imbalance

[suddenlytennant]

Do I really want to start an OF/Fansly or am I just unmedicated?

#me #my thoughts #I'm not even sure what I would put on it #it may just be my chemical imbalance and grief speaking #the serotonin is calling to me though

[girlcalledwhatsername]

One of those "is it worth it" debates i find myself having with myself is about mental health related posts that may make good points otherwise but subscribe heavily to and reference and frame mental illness through the biomedical model and the widespread (but false) idea that a chemical imbalance causes these issues. Comprehensive explanation for this + resources here. (Also worth looking into this activist's work where she describes what paychiatric gaslighting looks like)

The thing is I do not want to spread that misinformation anymore. It was presented to me as fact despite there being little proof of it, for a long time in my life from psychology teachers to therapists to psychiatrists of course. Just treated as a natural fact when it was literally pseudoscience on the same level as most rudimentary psychoanalysis.

So I have to make the decision to either simply not reblog it and therefore not engage with the wider mental health discourse and let people be mistaken from what is possibly just an honest mistake as something that has been taught to us all so so largely, they very well might just honestly not know it not be true, and then by leaving it alone I am letting that myth perpetuate from well-meaning people...

Or...

I actually correct the person, get a bunch of people who find their worldview so suddenly challenged being angry about it and calling me anti science as often happens and get retraumatised over my experiences with Psychiatric abuse at large.

And although I mostly choose the former and simply don't engage it leaves me feeling uneasy because I know I was that person once who didn't think to question the validity of chemical imbalance theories and if someone had told me about it honestly it would have saved me a world of pain. But too many people are progressive only on the surface and hate to have to consider abolitionist approaches to oppressive systems, too many people genuinely believe a host of more stigmatised symptoms and disorders to be deserving of incarceration or erasure, and i have no way of knowing who these people would be. And this is why pop psychology and liberal mental health advocates have run the anti-psych movement into the shadows - a movement to which we owe every step of our liberation as mentally ill people.

So how do you make this a bigger conversation again?

Like. Tell me this isn't blatantly a mass misinformation campaign at this point

[linked here]

#mental health stuff #anti psych #anti psychiatry #mental health advocacy #neurodivergent #actually autistic #psychotic #psychosis #bipolar #depression #mad liberation #bpd #npd #adhd #adhd tag #funny thing is i think talking about shit in terms of 'ooh neurotransmitters' and 'brain chemistry' makes it sound believable and sciency #because that was Psychiatry's attempt to align itself with the natural sciences #and we all fall for it! #oh they're talking about chemicals they must be right they must know what they're talking about #I'm sorry but serotonin imbalance doesn't cause depression #what it does do is give you that headache you get when you oversleep trivia of the day

[zocchini37]

Tried to draw but the only thing I managed to create was tears

#i need to get formally evaluated for depression so bad bc no way in hell normal people feel like this and actually get shit done #i have been trying to draw for days and it is just not happening #screw yall who aint got chemical imbalances #I'll steal your chemicals I'll become the best damn alchemist the worlds ever seen and then ill be unstoppable

[fandom-smoothie]

I cannot keep being into Ace Attorney because WHY am I giggling and kicking my feet over FICTIONAL LAWYERS

#I have. a chemical imbalance probably #atlas shitposts ace attorney #ace attorney #phoenix wright #apollo justice #miles edgeworth #klavier gavin

[yaoisaint]

Anyone else feels like having your life taken by your lover is the most romantic thing one can do or is it just me

#sorry i have chemical imbalances in my brain

[transmutationisms]

i mentioned lying to my doctor to my grandma (horrendous decision btw) and i just got stuck thinking like. in her day if i had disclosed how i feel to a doctor truly and honestly it would result in me being brought to a ward against my will and given electric shocks to “correct” me. something most everyone agrees with as despicable. and yet it doesn’t occur to her at all that if the medical world back then was so violent and wrong about so much that today’s logically could not have gotten rid of all of its problems in the course of less than a century lol

it's honestly interesting imo that you say "most everyone agrees" that forced institutionalisation/treatment are wrong, because like.... these things still happen! fundamentally the medical encounter is not structured to protect patient autonomy or even patient health; it is structured to promote physician authority to enforce social and medical standards of normality and wellness upon the patient's body and mind. there are specific modes of doing so that have declined in popularity (electropuncture, lobotomy [tho it's not true that the latter never occurs anymore either]) but there are others that are on the rise (psychotropic drugs, bariatric surgery). standards for patient consent have certainly changed, but these have never been equally applied (consider the de facto and de jure carveouts for patients who cannot read or speak in the physician's language; who are uninsured in countries w/out universal healthcare or non-citizens in countries with it; or, and this is crucial, who are simply declared to be too sick-insane to act in their own interests and whose consent is therefore explicitly not sought) and the standards are fairly toothless anyway, not to mention incapable of addressing the massive social-economic power differential between physician and patient, and also designed more to protect the physician from legal liability than anything else.

anyway my point is just that violation of patient autonomy is not something that can be fixed by, like, telling doctors to be nicer or care more, and it's not something that's lessening over time because the medical profession as it presently exists is coercive and authoritarian structurally and philosophically. an actually liberatory provision of medicine and health care requires a total paradigm shift (sorry) in terms of how we understand health, patient authority/autonomy, and the valuation of human bodies and lives.

#wrt psychotropic drugs i do not oppose drug seeking or taking lol #i am in fact so pro drugs that i think even the ones prescribed by physicians sometimes have value #my point is just that their widespread use is part of a neuropsychiatric discourse of normativity and productivity #and that patients should be given actual information about what these drugs can and cannot do (ie not a 'chemical imbalance' lie lmao) #and should be flying the plane so to speak when it comes to any tx plan but esp under the psychiatric umbrella

[cannibalismyuri]

yeah your email is NOT finding me well ❤️ hope that helps

#fucking hate hormonal imbalance. wdym the chemicals in my body make everything hurt. #my period cramps are like full blown punches to the gut continuously because i'm depressed. girl. #that's fucking worse 😐😐😐😐😐 #sara says

[gothhabiba]

The discovery that general paresis was caused by a bacterial microorganism and could be cured with penicillin reinforced the view that biological causes and cures might be discovered for other mental disorders. The rapid and enthusiastic adoption of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), lobotomy, and insulin coma therapy in the 1930s and 1940s encouraged hopes that mental disorders could be cured with somatic therapies. Psychiatry's psychopharmacological revolution began in the 1950s, a decade that witnessed the serendipitous discovery of compounds that reduced the symptoms of psychosis, depression, mania, anxiety, and hyperactivity. Chemical imbalance theories of mental disorder soon followed (e.g., Schilkraudt, 1965; van Rossum, 1967), providing the scientific basis for psychiatric medications as possessing magic bullet qualities by targeting the presumed pathophysiology of mental disorder. Despite these promising developments, psychiatry found itself under attack from both internal and external forces. The field remained divided between biological psychiatrists and Freudians who rejected the biomedical model. Critics such as R. D. Laing (1960) and Thomas Szasz (1961) incited an “anti-psychiatry” movement that publicly threatened the profession's credibility. Oscar-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Douglas & Zaentz, 1975) reinforced perceptions of psychiatric treatments as barbaric and ineffective.

In response to these threats to its status as a legitimate branch of scientific medicine, organized psychiatry embraced the biomedical model. [...] The publication of the DSM-III in 1980 was heralded by the APA as a monumental scientific achievement, although in truth the DSM-III's primary advancement was not enhanced validity but improved interrater reliability. Psychiatrist Gerald Klerman [...] remarked that the DSM-III “represents a reaffirmation on the part of American psychiatry to its medical identity and its commitment to scientific medicine” (p. 539, 1984). Shortly after publication of the DSM-III, the APA launched a marketing campaign to promote the biomedical model in the popular press (Whitaker, 2010a). Psychiatry benefitted from the perception that, like other medical disciplines, it too had its own valid diseases and effective disease-specific remedies. The APA established a division of publications and marketing, as well as its own press, and trained a nationwide roster of experts who could promote the biomedical model in the popular media (Sabshin, 1981, 1988). The APA held media conferences, placed public service spots on television and spokespersons on prominent television shows, and bestowed awards to journalists who penned favorable stories. Popular press articles began to describe a scientific revolution in psychiatry that held the promise of curing mental disorder. [...]

United by their mutual interests in promotion of the biomedical model and pharmacological treatment, psychiatry joined forces with the pharmaceutical industry. A policy change by the APA in 1980 allowed drug companies to sponsor “scientific” talks, for a fee, at its annual conference (Whitaker, 2010a). Within the span of several years, the organization's revenues had doubled, and the APA began working together with drug companies on medical education, media outreach, congressional lobbying, and other endeavors. Under the direction of biological psychiatrists from the APA, the NIMH took up the biomedical model mantle and began systematically directing grant funding toward biomedical research while withdrawing support for alternative approaches like Loren Mosher's promising community-based, primarily psychosocial treatment program for schizophrenia (Bola & Mosher, 2003). The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a powerful patient advocacy group dedicated to reducing mental health stigma by blaming mental disorder on brain disease instead of poor parenting, forged close ties with the APA, NIMH, and the drug industry. Connected by their complementary motives for promoting the biomedical model, the APA, NIMH, NAMI, and the pharmaceutical industry helped solidify the “biologically-based brain disease” concept of mental disorder in American culture. Whitaker (2010a) described the situation thus:

In short, a powerful quartet of voices came together during the 1980s eager to inform the public that mental disorders were brain diseases. Pharmaceutical companies provided the financial muscle. The APA and psychiatrists at top medical schools conferred intellectual legitimacy upon the enterprise. The NIMH put the government's stamp of approval on the story. NAMI provided moral authority. This was a coalition that could convince American society of almost anything… (p. 280).

–Brett J. Deacon, "The biomedical model of mental disorder: A critical analysis of its validity, utility, and effects on psychotherapy research." Clinical Psychology Review 33 (2013), 846–861. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2012.09.007

#Brett J. Deacon #psychiatry #readings #chemical imbalance model #medical model

[chikkiarts]

#wip #3d #animal jam #oc #original character #she has many chemical imbalances in her brain #meme #work in progress #art #rigging moment

[lazykebabvagina]

Today on.... WHY AM I SAD

a) my parents hate each other

b) I kinda hate myself

c) I lost my best friends

d) I'm unemployed

e) all of the above

#unemployment #university dropout #i feel useless #worthless #divorced parents #dysfunctional family #depression #chemical imbalance #prozac #antidepressants

[blue-rick24]

my dash is full of peace and love and joy and cock but i’m still sad

#chemical imbalance who? #chemical inbalance… me 😭😭😭 #probably #i dont know i’m just broken #ehe #my post #vent #txt #ooc #i feel fucking miserable its the worst #it just makes everyone feel worse

[oliversrarebooks]

Is there any chance mayhaps we could get more of "chemical imbalance"? 👀

This is at the top of my non-Bookseller story list right now! I'm really glad other people enjoyed it. It got delayed because I didn't like how my first draft was turning out and need a rewrite.

The next part I've been working on is from the point of view of someone getting abducted, but I'm happy to hear more ideas for what you'd like to see.

#ask #chemical imbalance

[howldean]

wondering why everything is shitty then realizing i’m four days late on my testosterone shot schedule and therefore. dying

#not dying. hormones. evil. depression. chemical imbalances everywhere.