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Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:

When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —

This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!

You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.

And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.

But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?

We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.

Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.

Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.

Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.

Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.

Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.

There are some unhelpful habits people have adopted whenever we talk about abuse.

It is often that we fall back on insults and jokes that decry the IMAGE of the abuser (or oppressor), rather than the SUBSTANCE of the abusive and coercive behaviors.

People fixate on their physical appearance (fatness or ugliness or physical ability).

They focus on harmless quirks that they have (speech patterns, dress, or stimming-adjacent idiosyncrasies). ➡️

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we would like a dual boot system so that if there's trouble, we can go to #Linux Mint, but perhaps we're not thinking this through the right way. I can't remember whether it was Daria or Cathode Ray Dude (we all live together) who suggested that rather than dual booting I should run other OSes off removable drives. I rather like that idea, then I can just make a #GhostBSD system the main, make sure the file system is something Linux can read, and then boot off a thumb drive for Linux #gaming

Wow. I can think about this stuff again! I must be less insane. Uh, sorry for being insane everyone. I know it's...(*sighs*) we've lost a lot of friends.

~Chara of Pnictogen
#plural #mentalillness

I've been so tired lately. My psychiatrist and I think it's partly because of some of my medications. We are still in the (quite slow) process of taking me off of some medications. I've been feeling crappier in terms of mood, though. And my Escitalopram is being lowered again today, so I expect it will get worse. The psychiatrist thinks antidepressants may be making me feel worse, but I'm skeptical. #Depression #MentalIllness

«As Andrew sees it, his wife dropped into a “hole three months ago and came out a different person.” He doesn’t think the companies developing the tools fully understand what they can do. “You ruin people’s lives,” he said. He and Allyson are now divorcing.»
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More cases of #AI-induced #psychosis (free link). nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technol

#articles #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #MentalIllness #capitalism

Eugene Torres used ChatGPT to make spreadsheets, but the communication took a disturbing turn when he asked it about the simulation theory.
The New York Times · They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.By Kashmir Hill