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lothor:

The ward at night is a creepy place hearing the cries of the patients in their rooms. Either crying for to be saved or crying in their sleep. Walking past their rooms to get to mine, I can hear them muttering, I don’t know if they’re asleep or awake. I dash as fast as I can back to my room because I know the doors aren’t locked. It’s now 12:00am, it’s lights off. Don’t dare leave my room past this time, I barricade myself in. Locking the door, who knows who it what lurks on the other side. I’m currently sitting alone in a dark room, alone, thinking I need to stay strong to get out of here. The harder I try the faster ill be out. Each day is a struggle, but there has to be light at the other end of the tunnel, there just has to be. I’m putting all my energy in “getting better,” well that’s what they say. I don’t think ill ever get better, ill just learn to deal with life in a different way.

transgalacticwanderer:

vegannvagina:

my-infinite-catharsis:

pajamaprodigy:

mh-things:

californiaexpatriate:

drugsandanarchy:

mh-things:

Unfortunately true.

It’s a bit unfair to compare something life threatening to something not immediately life threatening.

Also, psychiatric care is really just a nice way of saying, “mind-altering drugs”.

Not life threatening? You’ve clearly never experienced or known someone with a severe mental illness. Up to 90% of people who commit suicide have a mental illness.
Eating disorders, mood disorders, anxiety and self harm have many life threatening effects on the body, e.g. malnutrition, gastrointestinal complications, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, risk of wounds becoming infected, nerve damage. People struggling to get the mental health care they need find themselves in ER’s, jail cells and psychiatric hospitals for their immediate safety.
The risk of this can be minimised with proper treatment, which can consist of medication but also includes psychotherapy, occupational and social work, emergency care and other treatments as appropriate for each patient.
Kidney patients can be kept alive on dialysis for years while awaiting a transplant.

Also, your “mind-altering drugs”? These are part of why I can go to school, have an internship, maintain friendships, and be a reasonably responsible family member. Meds are a complement to therapy and make it work better. Honestly, if I were not taking prescribed medication, I would probably be taking some “mind-altering drugs” that had worse side effects than dry mouth.
Mental illness is in part both caused and reflected by physical/chemical disturbances in the brain. In physical illness, medication is often used to aleviate symptoms or address causes. Psychotropic drugs do the same thing. They are a medical response to a medical problem.

People need to stop thinking mental illness isn’t serious

They also need to stop thinking psychiatric drugs are all useless.

Bolded for A+ commentary, this bullshit that physical medical issues are more valid than psychological medical issues needs to end now.

“k”, “ok”, and “okay” are 3 very different things

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broken-from-memories:

flesh-on-flesh:

thisisforalittlewhile:

wildd-fl0wers:

donest:

cuteys:

freespiritw0lf:

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holy fucking shit. i never thought of it this way..

I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry.
by Cat Stevens

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