#mental illness – Lavender and Levity

Trust in Mental Health Treatment #6: Axe to Grind

Posted on August 31, 2019September 5, 2020 by lavenderandlevity

Actual texts sent to my Partner from my psychiatrist appointment: Lavender: "Mental health treatment is bullshit. I got the first appointment with my psychiatrist at 8:30am - knowing how ridiculously early that is – and I honored that commitment to wake up on a weekend to be available for rehearsal. It’s 9:45am and he hasn't … Continue reading Trust in Mental Health Treatment #6: Axe to Grind →

Fully Reversing My (Claim to) Mental Illness?

Posted on July 21, 2018April 16, 2019 by lavenderandlevity

Do these two Pinterest pins seem equivalent to you? I'm going to ignore for a moment the implication by a UK PTSD charity that PTSD is "fully reversible" with CBT and EMDR. I've tried both, and I'm still waiting for that reversal. (Of course, given how many unique traumas the 9th Circle of Hell as … Continue reading Fully Reversing My (Claim to) Mental Illness? →

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.