Tag: mental illness

1dietcokeinacan:

1dietcokeinacan:

One last hot take and then I’ll shut up: the reason adhd is framed first and foremost as a learning disability when it is in fact more apt to call it an emotional processing disorder is bc our society is only concerned w the ways neurological disorders impede a person’s ability to “function” aka get a job and contribute positively to capitalist society. How adhd affects interpersonal behaviors and emotional health is only relevant insofar as it relates to a person’s level of societal functioning PERIOD. There is no interest in improving our actual livelihoods

This is why girls are often not diagnosed w adhd until they are much older, bc they are forced to develop certain social awareness and self-surveillance capacities at an extremely young age and thus don’t perform “poorly” in the areas usually looked at to signify the disorder. But that doesn’t mean girls don’t take that distress out thru other avenues, just that the many alternative iterations of the disorder are ignored by professionals bc they don’t matter as far as society is concerned, as long as a girl is performing “well enough”

cornerof5thandvermouth:

c0ffeekitten:

strawberryspoons:

Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future

Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go

It gets even weirder when you hit 30.

velvety-secret:

Like most people don’t like to admit this, but one of the reasons a lot of us have so many mental health issues is because we live in a world that has basically become untenable. People can’t afford basic necessities, let alone to cultivate their interests or take breaks and rest or do any of the things necessary for good mental health. People my age are wracked with debt, working at jobs they hate or studying topics they hate, living in a shitty apartment with five roommates. We live in a world that’s very hard to be healthy in. So while yeah, a lot of people obviously do have mental illnesses that would need medication no matter what, they are greatly exacerbated by these issues, and a lot of people have basically just been thrust into an eternal situational depression. So if that doesn’t change, medication is just a band-aid. 

superstitious18:

vyvantsy:

filthy–as–charged:

adhighdefinition:

“binge watching” or as my adhd ass likes to see it….. i’ve 3 partially watched things open and i actually managed to get a few minutes into each of them!!!!! 

“Binge watching” aka letting a show play for 4 hours in the background while I do 6 different things on my phone the entire time

“Binge watching”; hyper-focusing on a show for 26 hours straight because I can’t stop, I haven’t eaten since yesterday, I’ve delayed going to sleep 7 hours past when I should’ve just to watch this, I need help, please send help

I can’t start a new show without someone to watch it with me so i dont wander off. Like, hold me accountable

republi-kun:

Concept: A dystopian novel where the government is able to read the minds of its citizens in order to spy on them. The protagonist is a person with ADHD and the mind-reading technology doesn’t work on them because their thoughts are too disjointed and change so rapidly that they’re impossible to read.

WANT TO HELP ME WIN A SCHOLARSHIP?

poplitealqueen:

poplitealqueen:

***YES, YOU CAN REBLOG THIS PLEASE DO***

An essay I sent into a scholarship contest for school was approved and is officially in the second round of the contest! But I need your help if I have any chance of winning. Essays with more “likes” on them have a better chance of getting noticed (if your’s becomes the “Audience Favorite”, you’re guaranteed a prize even if the final panel of judges doesn’t choose it, and lord knows I need whatever help I can get to pay for school).

So, I’m humbly asking you all for help. The essay that’s currently in the lead has 268 likes. I have over 3,000 followers on here. I think we can beat that. Maybe? Hopefully. It’s super easy, takes less than a minute, here’s how you can help a Pop out:

Step 1: Go Here

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23ws18e-s3d3/

Step 2: Find the Essay Titled “The Invisible Disability”

Step 3: Click the +1 Button On the Bottom Right-Hand Side of the Post

Step 4: Tell Me So I Can Hug You

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REASONS THIS IS TOTALLY WORTH DOING

#1. It helps me pay for college, and a financially stable Pop is a more productive and happy Pop.

#2. I can put it on college applications

#3. The essay is about the difficulties young girls and women with undiagnosed ADHD due to sexism in the medical field face both during school and after they leave, and how their lives and the educational system as a whole can be improved if more time and effort were to be given to teaching faculty how to spot less-overt signs of this disability. That’s a topic worth supporting. Yes? Yes.

#4. My eternal gratitude and adoration.

Thank you, everyone! A lot of people might say it’s a bit early for me to be saying that, but I’m going to anyway. Thank you. I trust you guys enough to know I have to say it early, because you’re just awesome like that ✌🏽

PEEPS!! Thanks to all of you, I officially have the second highest amount of likes already *blares party horn* there’s still a ways to go until I’m even close to the number 1 spot (268, I’m coming for ya), so keep at it!!

I’ve also been made aware that the link I’ve included makes it a bit difficult to find the actual essay, so here’s a more intuitive link:

https://plus.google.com/+WritersSquareOrg/posts/KjSHnrpmz9E

(I’ll be making a smaller post that’s less likely to clog the dashboard up later as well, so keep an eye out for it if you don’t want to reblog this one!)

You will need a Google+ account to do this, as a heads-up.