#positive symptom

[bisexualseraphim]

You know what, fuck it. Let’s show some love for the “unpleasant” autistics.

For the autistics who are always accused of being angry or moody when all they’re doing is sitting there.

For the autistics who take everything literally and respond sincerely.

For the autistics who come across as “blunt” or “rude” for being honest.

For the autistics who are called “control freaks” for needing a sense of order and routine.

For the autistics who get told to shut up for infodumping about uncomfortable topics.

For the autistics who find it too exhausting to mask and pretend to be sunny and friendly.

“Unpleasant” autistics, I love you.

#It becomes more and more apparent to me that everyone’s an ally until an autistic person displays these symptoms #And I’ve fucking had enough #I also need a bit of self love here too tbh lol #autism #autistic #actually autistic #autism positivity #ableism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #disabled #disability

[badwaves]

based on true events because i've been thinking about ford having a seizure disorder since 2016 and still yearn for fanwork where his relationship to said seizure disorder is as stupid and slapstick as my own. Hugs and kisses to all my friends who have hurled me into bed like a javelin over the years

#gravity falls #ford pines #stanford pines #i have PNES personally and am roatating its links to (C-)PTSD in my midn as well. positioning ford in front of my symptoms beam

[willgrahamscock]

So turns out, if you eat moldy bread and take expired medication you do end up developing severe intestinal issues! It’s not the update I wanted to give, but it turns out I am not invincible and in fact, I am incredibly unwell. Stay tuned.

#alex says things #I’m getting tested soon so please wish me luck #if my test comes back positive I’ll give a run down of my symptoms maybe it can help someone

[cupidreamexe]

this disability pride month i wanna give a shout out to the people who 100% KNOW theyre disabled but have to deal with going through the tedious process of getting a proper official diagnosis. especially if youre just barely on the cusp of not quite meeting the diagnostic criteria so they dont want to diagnose you just yet. the ones who have to monitor their symptoms for months, even years, but the symptoms have melded so much in your daily life that its hard to keep track of whats a symptom and whats 'normal'.

i see you. you are strong. you are not overreacting. you are not faking it. you will get through this. you are not alone.

you are your own best advocate and you deserve to be heard.

#dreamy broadcast #disability pride month #actually disabled #chronic illness #chronically ill #neurodivergent #disabled positivity #im going through this right now. because im just out of bounds for a lupus diagnosis even though i have many symptoms that line up with it #all i know is i definitely have an autoimmune disorder

[clinically-kitty]

Ppl who have issues with hygiene ily. Ppl who cant brush theyre teeth regularly. Ppl who dont shower for months. Ppl who wear the same clothes for days.

If all u can do is brush or shower once every few weeks or months ily. If all you can do is change into a different pair of pajama pants today ily. Or if you cant do any of it ily.

Ik ppl will be like “its not healthy to spread positivity now my teeth are rotting bc I didnt care” which I understand to some extent for some ppl but no amount of scaring me about how my teeth health will suffer is going to make me do it more, my brain quite literally can’t foresee the positive outcomes and will refuse to make it a daily habit no matter how much its barked at me over and over.

Sometimes its not something that can be helped. And its not bc I dont care or i like being disgusting or dont understand the risks I literally just cant.

#mrmidnightmeows #positivity #negative symptoms #schizophrenic spectrum #schizophrenia #schizoeffective #actually schizospec #psychosis #pseriouslypsychosis

[furiousgoldfish]

abused kids getting positive attention for the first time:

Don't know what's happening right now. Complete confusion.

if I ignore this for long enough it will go away

I will not fall for this

I don't know with what intention this is being done but I don't trust it and I will defy it

aggression and hostility

it's too late for this I needed attention years ago, take it back where it came from

attention I've heard of this. never seen it in person

what the hell do I do. how do I react. What is EXPECTED OF ME

someone is interested in giving attention to me? what does this mean?

I'm going to take this in and then I need to forget it ever happened because this is the only time I will get attention ever. I need to remember how this feels for forever.

This is probably a mistake, and this person is just doing this by accident. I just need to wait until they figure out I'm not worthy any of their attention.

I need to take this attention. I can't have it stop. I will do anything to keep this going. Please don't get bored of me. I will change anything to not be boring.

My entire life is now focusing on this moment right here and how do I have more of it.

What if it's my fault when this person stops liking me? What if I say the wrong thing and they hate me? What do I do to not chase this away?

I will go out of my way to do things that will ensure I get more attention. No matter what it is.

I can't go back to my old life, being neglected and ignored and feeling like I don't exist. I now know how attention feels, I can't lose this.

If I lose this attention I will go absolutely rabid.

I felt like a person today. I wonder if I'll ever feel this again.

This person who gave me attention must be special, nobody else has ever seen anything good in me. I'm going to latch onto them like I've never latched to anything ever before.

Is it possible I could be special to this person? That I'm not all bad? That I could be good as long as I keep doing whatever got me here?

I don't think I can repay this attention. I don't know how to make it up. It meant the world to me. I want to do anything to make it worth it.

I'm scared if I keep getting this attention I will bond to this person, and then they'll be able to do anything to me. I'm scared I'll become attached and then they'll get sick of me and abandon me. I don't feel safe receiving more because it puts me in a dangerous position. I should end this but I can't.

#neglect #child abuse #emotional abandonment #positive attention #vulnerability to predators #hijacked instincts #not knowing how to deal with attention #fearing attention #fearing bonding #craving attention but also fearing what will happen once you lose it #abuse #abusive parents #aftermath of child abuse #neglect symptoms #emotional abandonment symptoms

[bugcouncil]

May 21st through 27th is Schizophrenia Awareness Week, and what makes that so important is that there is still a truly abysmal level of stigma and misunderstanding surrounding schizospectrum diagnoses which makes it difficult for people like me to be open and frank about our illness.

in any case, I wanted to do something for it, so here's a personal piece regarding the specific experience of when positive symptoms (i.e. hallucinations, delusions) aren't as debilitating as the negative ones - anhedonia being chief among them;

"I'm hallucinating but that's okay as long as I still get to feel happy."

#that's not to say positive symptoms can't also be extremely disabling too #i could get way too into talking about this but i'll keep it short and sweet LOL #schizophrenia awareness week #mental health awareness #bugs art

[landprince]

make sure you think about soriku so hard that you give yourself a stomachache from it

#ark.txt #soriku #this is a positive post #love things so hard it gives you physical symptoms

[irrealisms]

shoutout to everyone with a complicated or negative relationship to antipsychotics. to everyone who’s “noncompliant”. to everyone who’s on them due to force or coercion. to everyone who’s on them because they’re afraid of not being. to everyone who’s going through withdrawal without medical supervision & against medical advice. to everyone who hates the side effects but still prefers them to being unmedicated. to everyone who dislikes them for “disordered” reasons. to the people on them who don’t think they need them & the people off them who think they do. to everyone who doesn’t like them but does better at school or work on them & to everyone who likes them but does better without them. to everyone who gets them on they grey market. to everyone who self-medicates with illegal drugs instead. to everyone with medical/psychiatric trauma. to everyone refusing to go to doctors (even if they would be helpful with other things) because they don’t want to be put on antipsychotics. I see you & im here with you. no matter what your diagnosis is you deserve bodily autonomy.

#pseriouslypsychotic #pseriouslypsychosis #actually schizophrenic #idk what tags ppl use now. whatevr. #it’s been ages since I made a positivity post but I was feeling one tonight. #in a few weeks I’m moving across the country to get away from my psychiatrist #so that’s where I’m at. #therapists dni #a symptom superficial to what they call knowing you #psychiatry tag

[brucespringsteendotcom]

#for context. my friend tested positive yesterday. we were at two parties together last weekend #somebody in one of her classes has it so she could have caught it there #i have mild cold symptoms but tested negative yesterday. #and i havent seen my friend since saturday night #im going to test at 2 (24 hours since my last negative test) and go from there

[friendofthecrows]

Hey I know I focus on low empathy disorders (esp. because I have ASPD) and this sometimes extends to talking about how many empaths demonize us but:

Shout-out to people with high empathy/hyperempathy that aren't perfect angels 24/7

I can't talk on it much because I'm Literally The Opposite but the people who have been most accepting about my lack of empathy have been people with "too much" of it.

Whether you *are* super sweet or whether your empathy manifests in difficulty controlling anger or pain you feel from others (or both, as is common) you have just as much of a right to your struggles as all of us without empathy. You're not overemotional, you're reacting proportionally to what you feel. Even if you were, you deserve to be treated with kindness and without judgement!!

Solidarity between people with low/no empathy and people with hyperempathy forever (つ˘◡˘)づ💚

#empathy #hyperempathy #positivity post #i never see positivity for hyperempathy people #which i guess is because no one knows about/acknowledges the negative symptoms you guys can experience #so i decided to make a post #hopefully it comes across right! #feel free to let me know if you think anything should be changed #i know a fair amount about it bc of my siblings (we went in opposite directions with the trauma) #but i am by no means an expert!

[catfindr]

(not cat related) i saw your post and i recently started effexor and oh god. what. what are the withdrawals like.

usually effexor withdrawals feel like sparks going through ur brain, but also headaches and after a few days my body just started to hurt all over

#not a cat #but at least i dont want to die every day like before i started taking effexor so positives definitely outweigh the withdrawal symptoms #qna #im also on the highest dosage tho so another thing to consider

[rxttenfish]

what will it take for people to realize that schizophrenia isnt just hallucinations + delusions, or like, just a way of saying "severe psychosis"

when will people remember that negative symptoms and cognitive symptoms also exist and are, like, important

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #this is all rhetorical i know people will never learn #no matter where you go people will never learn #anyhow point and laugh every time someone doesnt know that schizophrenia has positive and negative symptoms or what they are #bonus if they didnt know cognitive symptoms were also a thing too

[pocketgalaxies]

C3E31 || C3E32 (requested by @sharkodactyl)

#critical role #criticalroleedit #fearne calloway #ashley johnson #ashton greymoore #imogen temult #fresh cut grass #gifs #* #*cr #*request #*parallel #cr3 #cr spoilers #r: bells hells #laugh tag #scheduled #3h27m c3e31 #3h46m c3e32 #for some reason all i'm thinking is that THIS is the difference between a positive and a negative symptom. SKDFJSKDFS

[creepyscritches]

Back at the cancer clinic and it remains an amusement park for me. Hiiiiiii let's talk hematology and oncology heehee wroaw you also have the same autoimmune illness as me? Girlies let dish, how cold are your fingers

#Creepy chatter #A lot of practitioners here can speak with first hand experience and it's very refreshing! #So you DO understand what the unmeasurable subjective symptoms feel like #Idk I have fun at the cancer center appts I've been looking forward to this all week #Even the lab techs are different #:') idk after my last doctor I actively try to appreciate everything positive at Vanderbilt #Cw medical

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

is it not hard to just wear a mask? or call out if you don’t feel well? “oh i only felt a little off” wear a fucking mask or call out i don’t give a shit. “it’s not that big a deal” if you go out somewhere sick with no safety measures to protect other people you need to know you could potentially kill someone and i know this because people close to me have died because someone wasn’t careful when they got sick and went out and spread it

#my birthday is in 6 days and i was just informed one of my coworkers yesterday had early symptoms and tested positive today #i have 4 tests at least so i’ll probably test tomorrow afternoon (that’ll be 48 hours) and then again friday morning #im just tired of this. ‘i didn’t feel that sick when i went out’ I don’t give a rats ass #if you’re even feeling remotely sick and can’t get out of going somewhere you at minimum need to be fully masked up #if you go out sick and didn’t mask i hope it stays on your conscience forever #I hope it haunts you every day that you could’ve ended someone’s life #and i mean that genuinely. i hope you never escape your thoughts that you could’ve killed someone #coronavirus