1) I’m neurodiverse, chronically ill and a (hopefully vaguely effective) advocate for others. I’ve seen some stuff as a result.
2) I’ll take anyone to task who claims any of the above make anyone else lesser in any way.
3) But – because I’m also an irony magnet – I’m still biologically wired to experience Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and conditioned from past experiences to feel toxic shame personally that I would never apply globally.
4) If I can’t beat the Bully-in-My-Brain, I can at least learn to laugh at it.
5) Puns are awesome.
I guess everyone has their opinions on the stigma of mental illness but I was diagnosed with PTSD based on the DSM (whatever number they are on now) and I have every one of the symptoms. That would be like saying, in my opinion, that central core disease (the muscle disease I have) is not TRULY a muscle disease because in my case they have not found the genetic link even though my biopsy says that is what it is. Either way I am F’ed up physically and mentally by things totally out of my control. And reversible? Well we shall see because if that were true I want ALL my thousands of dollars back from all of these therapists and psychiatrists because I am far from cured or reversed. I would say I have some better coping skills but how do you take away a memory that triggers a response? How can we reprogram the brain. If so I’d stop these damn seizures.
Oh god I’ve completely lost it on your blog!!!! Talk about a rant!!!
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Heh. Rant away. Now you’ve got me mentally tallying how much I’ve spent on treating PTSD – and that’s before the cost of flying back to Hell to face the damn abusers – and I’m realizing there’s probably a whole second blog post any of us could write on the financial toll of trauma. All that money, and I *still* manage to dissociate anytime anything reminds me of those memories at *the worst* possible times…ugh…
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Same!absolute same!!!!
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