#our true struggle

[heymacy]

IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

#happy world bipolar day to all my bp babies #(more thoughts at the end of the tags) #shameless #shamelessnet #shamelessedit #ian gallagher #cameron monaghan #*macygifs #bipolar disorder #hello pals how are we doin #i made this gif set in july of 2023 and never posted it because 1) i was terrified to share it and potentially see Bad Takes in the tags #and 2) because my hyperfixation was waning. and while both of those things are still mostly true (the fixation comes and goes) #i feel like it's really important to share as ian's bipolar storyline was not only so vital to his character it was a bit of representation #that isn't often given to the disorder and those (like myself) who live with it every single day #world bipolar day is a day where we can both celebrate ourselves and our resilience and also raise awareness of the reality of the disorder #which is both terrifying and beautiful at its core. this disease is not a death sentence or a sentence to an unfulfilled and miserable life #while there are challenges galore when it comes to balancing life with this disorder it IS possible to live a full and productive life #and i think it's really important to have representation of that in media - and while shameless dropped the ball on a LOT of storylines #over the years THIS is the one they really fucking nailed and i am incredibly grateful #i first started watching shameless while in the midst of a major depressive episode and i was later (finally) diagnosed during an extended #hypo/manic episode - this show and ian's storyline got me through so much and made me feel so seen and validated in my struggles #world bipolar day is also vincent van gogh's birthday (happy birthday buddy) who was posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder #and who experienced both depressive and hypo/manic episodes during his lifetime (and was regularly institutionalized) #it takes a lot of help and support to keep us going. it takes the support of our family and friends and *most* of all #it takes patience and kindness and understanding - which is so so so easy to give if you are willing to love and listen #so please. be willing. listen to our stories. be patient with us. show us love without conditions. support us in any way you can. #we are worth it #i promise #anyway. that's really all i wanted to say. happy world bipolar day to those who celebrate (me) and may all of us living with this disorder #go on to live happy fulfilling beautiful magical lives

[ataykiri]

Our stay on this earth is so so short, we’re in such a dream state that we keep forgetting this truth

#there’s this girl in my area who died two days ago just like that #collapsed due to the heat and then had a heart attack and died #الله يرحمها #she’s like 19/20 #people our age are dying right next to us #yet we think we’re safe and still have time to improve to change to repent #what great regret it’ll be if we don’t die in the state of true sincere repentance but in one of ghaflah and self deception and sin #being consumed by your nafs by this world and sucked into it #اللهم اني اسالك حسن الخاتمة #we’re so lost in our worldly struggles and ideas and desires that we forget what we’re here for #you can live on this earth and engage with people and enjoy your stay even if you always keep your heart in check and your deeds aligned #with what Allah swt wants #you can turn all your actions into worship by having the right intention #eating sleeping -> to gain strength for worship and be of benefit for people #studying working -> learn about the beauty and intricacy that Allah has put into His creation #work to achieve what Allah has written for you #that’s true life connecting everything to the Creator the One who gave us life #everything else is just deception and will go to waste #and cannot be called a true life

[terrytheinsane]

Me tormenting the captive borrower with infodump rants

#g/t #Cortana: What is that? #Gravemind: I? I am a monument to all your sins. #Arbiter: *struggling* #Master Chief: Relax I'd rather not piss this thing off. #Arbiter: Demon... #Gravemind: This one is machine and nerve and has its mind concluded. #This one is but flesh and faith and is the more deluded. #Arbiter: Kill me or release me parasite but do not waste my time with talk. #Gravemind: There is much talk and I have listened through rock and metal and time #now I shall talk and you shall listen. #2401 Pentinent Tangent: Greetings! I am 2401 Pentinent Tangent. I am the monitor of installation 05. #Regret: And I am the Prophet of Regret...councilor most high... hierarch of the covenant. #2401 Pentinent Tangent: A reclaimer? Here? At last! We have much to do. This facility must be activated if we are to control this outbreak. #Regret: Stay where you are! Nothing can be done until my sermon is complete! #2401 Pentinent Tangent: Not true. This installation has a successful utilization record of 1.2 trillion simulated and one actual. #it is ready to fire on demand. #Regret: Of all the objects our lords left behind there are none so worthless as these oracles! They know nothing of the great journey! #2401 Pentinent Tangent: And you know nothing about containment! You have demonstrated complete disregard for even the most basic protocols! #Gravemind: This one's containment *shudders in disgust* and this one's great journey are the same. #Gravemind: Your prophets have promised you freedom from a doomed existence but you will find no salvation on this ring. #Those who built this place knew what they wrought. Do not mistake their intent or all will perish as they did before. #Master Chief: This thing is right. Halo is a weapon your prophets are making a big mistake. #Arbiter: Your ignorance already destroyed one of the sacred rings Demon in shall not harm another. #Gravemind: If you will not hear the truth then I will show it to you. #There is still time to stop the key from turning but first it must be found. #Gravemind: *gestures to Master Chief* You will search one likely spot *gestures to the Arbiter* and you will search another. #Gravemind: Fate had us meet as foes but this ring will make us brothers. #was gonna do the part where master chief gets teleported to high charity but I ran out of tags

[magnifiico]

literally copy/pasting this from one of my other blogs where i made this post YEARS ago, but it still applies, so i want to communicate it again (ꈍ ‸ ꈍ✿)

i’m not asking anyone to do anything or requesting this be done for me specifically, but i do want to just sort of encourage this among folks in the rpc willing to engage:

please just… when someone writes you a starter, replies to an ask you sent, replies even just to a thread you have going on, let them know you like it and appreciate it.

now, tumblr makes that easy for us. we can literally just “like” the post and let the person know we’ve a) seen it and b) approve in some way/shape/form. but for anyone who doesn’t get anxious doing so, actually approaching the person or leaving a lil comment on it really is such a sweet thing to do, imo.

in my experience, i’m always more engaged and eager to write with someone who shows they appreciate my writing and characterization. and you really don’t have to jump through hoops to show it. you don’t have to be someone’s best friend or therapist or any of that; even just being in a strictly “writing partners” relationship leaves room to tell your partner:

hey, that starter you wrote for me was perfect and i love it; tysm for writing it. i can’t believe your character just said that!! i’m screaming omg can’t wait to reply. your ask response killed me; i adore the way you write your character. and so on.

the point i’m trying to make is that i think everyone here deserves to be told they’re doing a great job. everyone here deserves to feel accomplished and wonderful for the time and effort they put into their muse. but i also think 99% of the people here don’t actually get to hear that as often as they should.

so if you have it in you, let your rp partners know you appreciate them, their character, their writing, their headcanons, any of it. because you do. otherwise you wouldn’t be writing with them—just go that one extra step of point-blank expressing it. <3

#˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ 《 ooc 》 #this is entirely random and absolutely not a callout or a vague post!! #it's just an aspect about the rpc that remains true in my personal experience in YEARS of being here #and i am guilty of not being as engaged as i should be sometimes so i'm not saying i'm doing this as much as i should #but i DO try to let my writing partners know i appreciate them whenever i can <3 bc you all dESERVE that acknowledgment #and i know plenty of us do struggle with negative feelings and thoughts of inadequacy #sometimes all it takes to brighten our day is just someone simply reaching out #and saying something like “i LOVE YOUR REPLY OMG” #it's simple but it means something yknow? #it can be SO EASY for rp to start feeling like a transaction instead of an actual fun hobby #and i think the fun side of it IS engaging with your rp partners and being EXCITED together #SO LET'S BE EXCITED !!! #you all are incredible and deserve to feel appreciated -- let your mutuals know you appreciate them too ;v;/ <3 #ok sammy out -- random word vomit concluded

[otwdfanfic]

I’ve been sick for days and am finally recovering and feeling motivated to write, and I was really in the groove on itpn when I suddenly spilled tea all over my laptop like an idiot 😭 it’s not looking good for my laptop so far, please pray for me because I really do not want to replace it😭

Anyways now I’m stuck writing on my ipad which is both annoying and also more painful because the Bluetooth keyboard I have is really tiny and my wrist is already in a brace from overuse in the past month (between writing, typing, drawing and filing papers all day) 😭😭 I’m endeavoring on but hopefully my laptop will miraculously live so I can edit and post a chapter next week bc I have no idea how’d I’d manage that on an ipad

#overuse of the emoji 😭 but its really the only way to describe my struggle #I also spent a lot of money on my cat at the vet today and had to donate all my childhood stuff last week bc our garage flooded #what’s the joke about fanfic writers having the worst luck in the world…. its true #i wanted to post chapter 4 last weekend or this week but those are all my excuses why I cant lol

[hella1975]

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#be deadly fucking serious rn PLEASE whatttt. that post that's like 'parents will say something that shapes you as a person #but for them it was just another tuesday' like WHAT JUST HAPPENED #basically if you've been following me since i went to uni then you know first year was an... interesting time for me and my mum #we rowed all the time and it's the most unsettled our relationship has ever been and i do truly believe it was just some unfortunate #external factors like me leaving home would rock the boat enough it was always gonna rejig our dynamic #but on top of that i was her LAST child to fly the nest which she hated AND my sister was in germany being insanely dependent on my mum #so i got sidelined a lot which was shitty at the time but i get it now like im still a bit bitter bc being the eldest everything my sister #does is an exciting first and our age gap means typically our academic big moments tend to cross over #so my a-levels happened during her first year of uni so for me a-levels were the biggest thing ever but ofc her thing was bigger #but when she did HER a-levels it was the biggest thing ever and i was /just/ doing gcses etc and germany was the same #like it was JUST my first year of uni bc meanwhile my sister was living alone in a foreign country. so that sucks and my mum was #defo focused on my sister and i wasn't in a position to be like 'hey i know it doesn't seem like it now you've got one kid through it #but going to university and settling in for the first year is still an insanely stressful and lonely time so please pay attention to me' #and all in all me and my mum just STRUGGLED we fought A LOT and not petty rows either they were really emotionally heavy all the time #and basically what's caused this post is that she said about america 'it'll be the longest ive been away from you' #and i know what she meant like a month out of england is the biggest thing ive ever done and im not even in EUROPE so this is huge #but i kinda said like 'im pretty sure i went a month in first year a couple times without visiting?' AND I MEANT IT CASUAL #BC I AM PRETTY SURE IT'S TRUE LIKE I WASNT EAGER TO GO HOME I WENT SOME WEEKS NOT EVEN RINGING #which REALLY shows how strained it must have been at the time. and she responds with confusion so i pointed out that first year #wasn't a great time for us and again still being casual bc it's such a fundamental truth for me that first year was Bad for me and mum #and she just blinks at me like 'what are you talking about' what. WHAT. like i knew she wasn't paying much attention to me then #but it made me MISERABLE for an entire YEAR like boom can testify bc they had to deal with my bs over the phone the entire time #and my mum just. didn't even notice that we weren't doing well. what. what the fuck even..... baffled by this actually #like i am REELING from this i feel like she just tipped the fundamentals of my world with that #hella goes home

[stormyoceans]

LITERALLY INVENTED COMMUNICATION CARE WARMTH SUPPORT TENDERNESS UNDERSTANDING AFFECTION HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS LOVE!!!!!!!!! WHO IS DOING IT LIKE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#HAD TO STOP THE EPISODE AND CRY FOR 15 MINUTES SYRAIGHT ABOUT YHSI #IM NOT COHERENT EBOUGH TO TALJ ABOUT IT BUT THIS #THIS JS WHY I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #sincce the very beginning their relationship has always felt so real so genuine so mature #and their conflicts have always been so believablr and true to the struggles couples go through #you make plans and sometimes they fall through and your jov absorbs all your. energies so you end up neglecting the most important people #in your life and it's not really anybody's fault because that's safly how life is sometimes #but it still hurts and the most important thing js always to talk about it and find a way to be together #and just like always puen and talay aren't letting a misunderstanding get the better of them #but they're communicating and meeting each other in the middle because they love each ither so much snd that's the most important thing #GOD I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE FHEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEJ I L #vice versa #our skyy 2 #puentalay #m: txt

[piscadilly]

i think honestly transmascs should be able to talk abt the hatred of transmasculinity and their unique experiences of transphobia but not while also implying that cis men also suffer from people hating masculinity, or that misandry is a real actual thing. anyway.

#the stuff genderkoolaid and others say about 'transandrophobia' feels a lot like it's just saying 'men are oppressed trans or cis!' #and i need fellow transmascs to actually sit back and think about what theyre saying for at least a minute #people hate transmascs (and trans men/men aligned especially) because of toxic masculinity; misogyny; and the forced assignment #of male privilege #not because we are men or men adjacent #and saying otherwise implies that cis men have the same struggles and implies that cis men are oppressed for this #we are not the same as cis men and we do not experience manhood or masculinity the same way they do and that's okay to say and acknowledge #that last point isn't saying that trans men aren't real men it's acknowledging that our experiences and identities are oftentimes #completely different than cis men #and will never be the same even if we pass extremely well in various ways #we are not hated for being men but we are hated for being the type of man that we are #men of color are not hated for being men but for being not white #gay men hated for being gay not men #bi men etc etc etc #misandry isnt real sorry tldr #well i say not hated for being men but extremely literally not true #i mean systemicly oppressed or suffering as a man FOR being a man #insert shit about mental health and abuse here also

[gramforgram]

I don't care who you are or how much clout you have. if you endorse "TME" rhetoric and especially connect it to the Tumblr CEO and his fetish for targeting trans women you are not cool in my books. faggot feds fuck off

#greenhrt speaks #think critically please I'm begging you #trans women are victims but are not the ONLY victims #in this weird reactionary conspiratorial division you erase our collective struggles #as well as inadvertently whitewash them if I'm being honest #I've had to unfollow multiple queers I like and even respect over this #solidarity and community to hold our true oppressors responsible #they aren't derived from infighting but from power structures we know and see (eg a ceo with an agenda)

[tiefling-queer]

it's been 0 days since i saw someone think that transandrophobia is supposed to be transphobia+misandry even though multiple posts that explain it will tell you that it's to describe the specific overlap between transphobia and misogyny that trans masculine people face, because it feels reductive and shitty that we must either say our transphobia is universal transphobia or we have to misgender ourselves to be taken seriously.

anyway, it's literally just a fucking word and if youre twisting your panties up about it i think perhaps it is time to touch grass.

#emo poetry #it's like. either all words are necessary or none are? #it's like. i personally dont think ive been the target of transmisogyny for the times im mistaken for a transfem #but others think i have been #because we have different understandings of what these words mean #Which means the words are failing #which means it's all queerphobia and there's no need for more words. which of course is both true and not true #we are simultaneously all persecuted on the same grounds as outsiders of the cisheteropatriarchy #and the nuances of our fears are different #your opposition to a term coined because a portion of the community that feels they are w/o language to describe their struggle #ultimately isnt going to stop them from using it #aphobia isnt a useless term just because homophobes use it to be homophobic #and transandrophobia isnt a useless term because transmisogynists use it to be transmisogynistic

[dedahblog]

About the "ichiruki being BFF" debate

Blech fandom is a joke.

(Just some thoughts I wanted to get off my chest. Basically me rambling)

People are calling Ichigo/Rukia just friends or BFF as an attempt of restraining how much they mean to each other while IRs fans are getting triggered every time writing essays as if this is the worst insult ever made.

Like ... seriously ?

Let's be logical. Is it really worth having a debate about ? Is the opinion of fans of sh1tty pairings like RR and IH really relevant ?

I'm not trying to roast them or anything (ok ... maybe a little) but their standards are pretty low : getting this euphoric when their only ship canon validation is porking. All you have to do to invalidate their crap is tearing off the last two pages where the porking products appear and that's it. Nothing to see.

I block / don't interact with anyone of those guys not because I'm a "salty IR fan". Actually I loved Blech much more than IR. And God knows how much I love IR. If anything, I'm more of a Blech salty fan and I don't want to discuss anything related to Blech with people happily dancing on its ashes claiming "they won".

Is the opinion of those who are euphoric about an ending where Yuzzu is molesting her nephew that important ?

People who think a final chapter that ended with a random character yelling "whaaat " has any credibility ?

Or people who can't read crystal clear facts

Juha back : I will come back when you feel happy Ichigo !!

then Akon: wow this is the first time JB reaistu appeared in 10 years.

What about Porking Product Number 2 idolizing Mayuri who killed and tortured innocent souls ? (as mentioned in the hell chapter)

As for their passive aggressive way of insulting IR fans, let's just set it straight

Rukia and Ichigo trust each other like no other since day 1.

They are each other's salvation from their guilt of not saving their loved ones (Kaien and Masaki)

No one has ever made Rukia happy like Ichigo since Kaien's death and the same with Ichigo since his mother's murder.

When he didn't believe he could defeat his hollow, it's neither Rukia kicking his butt nor her pep talk that gave Ichigo courage. He regained hope when Rukia told him how highly she thinks of him.

And Rukia trusts Ichigo so much that she has never shown her crying face aka her vulnerabilty to anyone but him.

Ichigo takes so much pride in being a shinigami because he places high value on Rukia's ideals

When she thought she was going to die in the SS arc, Ichigo was the reason Rukia cried when she said goodbye because it's Ichigo's existence that brought hope to her life.

There is no other relationship in this manga that had such a mutual positive impact on each other

Calling them best friends isn't really an insult, if a best friend is someone who helped you have faith in yourself, regain hope, learn from your trauma and move forward.

If that's how they define best friends, then Reji and Orhime are not even worthy of being called their friends at that point

".....w-well a-at least they f***ed !!".

.....RR and IH fans please enjoy your canon to its fullest. Kub0 had granted you the power of being associated with that crap till the end of time. Be blessed by this almighty gift .

Your low self worth is second to none

#I don't care about their opinion. But I'm salty that no one in the IR fandom has made a post how Ichigo and Rukia are #Really each other first true friends and no one has ever brought so much joy in their life #Do we have to set our standards to their level #I wonder what's worse having your otp child f Ed by his aunt or being called best friends ... the struggle #ichiruki #anti bleach ending

[mars-ipan]

honestly i don’t really think any mental illnesses have been like “destigmatized”- not fully at least. i think the stigma has just changed from demonization to “that’s not a real problem get over it god”

#obviously demonization is more Actively Harmful #but to say things like depression and anxiety have been destigmatized is. incorrect i feel #yes we are not treated like we’re evil. which is for sure an improvement #nobody deserves to be treated like they’re evil #but our illnesses are now being dismissed. ‘oh everyone has that’ not like me #‘you’re just being lazy’ i wish that were true #like. ok hold on let me use an example bc i’m worried abt reading comprehension on this website #(not my followers i trust u guys but i act as if every post i make will get popular) #my brother is autistic. i have GAD. #my brother was diagnosed when he was 2. he’s faced a lot of bullying from both kids and adults and it sucks and he didn’t deserve it #because of all that bullying (especially as a kid) he’s rejecting his autism and focusing really hard on being as ‘normal’ as possible #i was diagnosed last year at 17. i’ve been having these issues my whole life (my mom and i both saw it) but my issues were dismissed #by all the other adults around me (save for family) because i wasn’t visibly struggling and i was doing well in school #it made me doubt my convictions for a long time. what if i’m wrong? #as such i didn’t seek a diagnosis for a long time until my anxiety had gotten to a point where i knew i couldn’t keep ignoring it #now that i have that diagnosis i’m able to wield it as a weapon. my struggles aren’t made up #they’re real. and they always have been. and i can’t just ‘calm down’ like you can. and that needs to be respected #so while i think one is more actively harmful (bullying and harassment lead to self-rejection and loathing) #the other is also harmful- just passively (constantly being dismissed leads to self-doubt and not asking for help) #also why are people angry about the idea of a mental illness being destigmatized? #one group freeing itself from oppression isn’t gonna immediately forget about the groups who helped them get there #if i’m one day able to get perfect accomodations for my anxiety and nobody looks at me like i’m dramatic when i talk about it #i’m not gonna suddenly stop advocating for mental health issues to be normalized #if anything i’ll argue HARDER. you learned to understand me now learn to understand my siblings #learn to understand those with bpd. with psychosis. the sociopaths. the narcissists. the systems #i’m not gonna act like i have it worse than people who are heavily stigmatized. i’m not gonna get attacked for stuttering at mcdonalds #but that doesn’t mean i have /no/ problems and it doesn’t mean i think i’m better than anyone else #i don’t get why people fight each other about this. it’s a good thing so long as we remember where we came from

[zoldyckd]

need therapy again.

#tbt this friday when my supervisor asked me if smth bad was going on in my life just because I misundertstood #vague instructions two times that day (with no consequences btw) #and instead of telling her I’m struggling w our diff communication styles I told her I haven’t had rest since December began (also true) #and that my stress is totally manageable #and she told me some shallow shit abt how balance is important (or else) even after I admitted I couldn’t get any rest at home either #I feel horrible all the time and I’m trying to be a good boy by managing it but I rlly can’t. I feel stuck I thought I could handle 2 month #of this but I can’t believe it’s only been a week into january!! and I’m already like this!!!!! #and when I resign? what then? I still don’t know what to do with my life. will I get into another job in hr???????? it’s the easy route if #wanna find a new job and resign asap but #there are. so many things. #tapos bukas traffic pa kasi papasok na rin lahat so magigising pa ako nang maaga #tas may naisip na naman siya na ipapagawa na kailangan namin irush this week #walang katapusan

[lunarflare64]

I never claimed to be the responsible one in this body *takes a sip of whiskey on a completely empty stomach, having last eaten 11 hours ago and it only being half a bag of chips, no breakfast to speak of*

#look i dont think i was the one that fucked up breakfast but come on #who the hell looks away from food in this adhd ass body? #we all know if we dont immediately dig in we'll forget it exists and it'll get gross #so no breakfast and all i could manage to handle was the chips and nothing else sooooo #nothing went to plan today our life is in shambles #we should never rely on other people to do fucking anything and we should never plan around them either #didnt do chores didnt eat its a fucking miracle we took our meds #im gonna fucking drink and we're gonna TRY to not be snappish at our mum for not at least notifying us that the plans were cancelled #cant entirely blame her shes showing signs of VERY early stages of dementia. her memory isnt gonna last forever #and she doesnt have the coping mechanisms we have with our memory issues because shes used to having a reliable memory to fall back on #it'll take time for her to adjust to her brain being unreliable like this and it'll take longer than it took for us #amnesia from childhood is VERY different from amnesia appearing late into adulthood ('late' shes 41) #its gotta be weird and probably very upsetting #we were a little confused about it at first when she took our reminders as insults #if youre new to memory struggles reminders are helpful right? wrong. its not about practicality its about being deemed as unreliable #even if its true in a completely objective sense #whatever we know theres times where we wont completely understand what shes dealing with - different experiences and all that #the tism on our end doesnt help #we just cant tell when reminders are welcome so we dont give them at all anymore #even when it fucks us over - like today! ☆ #gods we're tired

[fvaleraye]

we've been rewatching Digimon lately, and have recently gotten to Frontier. we were thinking "oh, maybe it's not as bad as we remember, maybe the fact that it came after Tamers colored our perception of its quality." we even started watching it before Tamers, just in case. it's bad. there is so much potential here. there's so many ideas that we like. but it's bad.

#Faye Rambles #you wanna know what we completely forgot about until the rewatch? #the fact that the digi-destined get their asses kicked constantly until they don't #filler is fine; we have nothing against filler; but when the filler is the protags getting destroyed for several episodes accomplishing- #-nothing of note until they suddenly win; it's just. bro #this is not helped by the goggles lone wolf duo stealing the spotlight harder than any other in the series #while also spending seven episodes in a row getting thrashed #god. literally the rest of the team are relegated to cheer leading duty while the two of them eat dirt constantly until they don't. #like we don't hate it for being a henshin show- though we will admit the lack of true digimon partners hurts it a lot #there's so much potential here. you could have done anything with the spirits other than making them glorified transformation coupons #you could have some form of struggle with humanity #the spirits could have fucking spoke at some point; advised them #you could have had SOMETHING. #LOSING our MIND. #Tamers cannot come fast enough in this binge marathon asdfkljn

[uncanny-tranny]

so this is more of a personal ask than a public one and I want to make it 100% clear that you have No obligation to agree. anyways I saw your post about triggers and how you can react to them and I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about it, since I am working on a novel where a character has ptsd and I want to be as accurate/respectful as possible. tbc I would Not ask anything about like…trauma or anything. just stuff like ‘are certain triggers associated with certain symptoms or do they seem to be random’ and how long it may last/tactics to deal with them.

again, not at all obligated to say yes

I'm not certainly not opposed to the idea, seeing as how conversations like these ones can benefit more than just writers or creatives

#ask #trauma #i do try to start conversations and i think that's a lot of what this blog is #it's like improv - learning to say 'yes and' #so if that's where the conversation goes then so long as it's respectful (which i trust it will be) then it's like... why not? #also i find that conversations like these can help not only creatives writing fiction but like... real people too #and additionally i think these conversations are most beneficial when we remember there isn't a true 'right' or 'wrong' #my dad and i have ptsd from two completely different things and neither of us are better or worse off than the other... #...because our conditions have severely impacted our ability to live our day-to-day lives in many instances... #...learning how to look at people with similar struggles and not applying a 'good' or 'bad' moral judgment on them is so important #anyway tangent over (the tangent is not over; it is simply asleep)