#schizophrenic
Not only is it Mspec Lesbian Week— it’s also Psychosis and Schizophrenia Awareness Week.
A special shoutout to Psychotic Mspec Lesbians
Enjoying the morning sun with my best friend.
Five years this week since you left. Just as when you were with me, being with you is the only time that I experience total calm.c
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The latest A Broken Coda vlog is now available to watch on my YouTube channel. . In this video I talk about my last appointment with a psychiatrist and my frustrations with it being another locum. . YouTube: youtube.com/c/domlyne
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The Maze is an interactive multimedia introduction to my work about my mental health difficulties.
Presented in a non-linear, maze-like fashion, The Maze also features previously unpublished written material.
You can enter The Mazeat:themaze.dominiclyne.com
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My three week holiday ended today. It was a much needed break, and this week I have had several deep and meaningful conversations with my mum.
I told her about my addiction problems and was 100% open and honest about it, and although she had already worked out what I was doing/using a long while back, she was thankful that I had finally come clean.
A massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders and she told me the one thing I needed to hear above all else: That she is proud of me.
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Figurine interpretation of the Shadow-man and I.
I have seen the Shadow-man since I was 4. For 31 years it has followed me, directed my life path, and made sure I have always done what the darkness wanted.
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I rarely talk in depth about the reality of my world.
What those in control of my care refer to as my main delusion, is for me my reality.
Watch the full video on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/domlyne
The time has finally come. I’m now in the pre-order stage of my memoir. If you can contribute it would be the world to me. Please share this with everyone you know, and please, reblog. My story is important to me and I believe meaningful to many others. Thank you so much in advance!
schizoaffective disorder has been a wild fucking ride. I’ve seen/dealt with so much bullshit because of it. But for years I’ve been hallucinating my childhood cat every time I’m very upset or not doing well. And it’s the most beautiful calming thing in the world. And that’s not the only beautiful thing I’ve ever had happen to me because of schizoaffective disorder and some days I just need to remind myself of that.
Whenyouchoosetosupportpeoplewithpsychosisyoudon’tgettopickandchoosewhoyousupport.Youhavetosupportlower-functioningandunstablefolkstoo.
Clara Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965)
Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film “It” that brought her global fame and the nickname “The It Girl”. Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.
Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York, the only surviving child of a dysfunctional family afflicted with mental illness and dickensian poverty and physical and emotional abuse.
In 1949 she checked in to The Institute of Living to be treated for her chronic insomnia and diffuse abdominal pains. Shock treatment was tried and numerous psychological tests performed. Bow’s IQ was measured “bright normal” (pp. 111–119), while others claimed she was unable to reason, had poor judgment and displayed inappropriate or even bizarre behavior. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The illness debut, or “onset”, as well as her insomnia, the analysts tied to the “butcher knife episode” back in 1922, but Bow rejected psychological explanations and left the Institute. Bow did not return to her family after leaving the institution. Bow lived alone in a bungalow, which she rarely left, until her death. Bow spent her last years in Culver City, Los Angeles under the constant care of a nurse, living off an estate worth about $500,000 at the time of her death. She died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
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just saw a post where the creator was trying to raise acceptance for “scary” mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bpd, npd, etc., and the sentiment was nice, but they weren’t schizophrenic and used the term “schizos”. as a schizophrenic myself, i absolutely hate when non-schizophrenic/non-psychotic people use that term. it’s not your term to use because it’s been used to demonize and dehumanize us for years.
please y’all, if you’re not on the schizophrenia spectrum, don’t use the term “schizo”. it’s really not that hard to say schizophrenics/psychotics or people with schizophrenia/psychosis (if you like person first language that is). if one day the stigma goes down and we can use that term without the societal implications, great, but today is not that day.
genuine question just to help me broaden my understanding: are you comfortable with people who aren’t schizophrenic but are schizoid or schizotypal using that term? cause my understanding is that it’s not really used against those people, it mostly targets schizophrenic and schizoaffective people, but the PDs come from the same root, so I just don’t know.
thanks for any answer you give!
