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Studies have already shown that fake smiling and surface acting (pretending to be happy when you're not) produce a very short-lived dopamine boost. Long term, it's actually horrible for your mental health, even if you're not openly neurodivergent.

True fact: unmasked, I am not a smiler. Do not make me "smile more"

Finally! A book bursting with my dear friend ~ echolalia!!

...& what a relief that is.

This really is spot on. Thank you @shrinkingtrump.bsky.social

Have done a lot of research on good stereos to get tho so get in touch if you need tips x

My quality of life has massively improved since I shifted the way I listed to music, by ditching streaming & reverting to CDs. Seriously! Better sound, more conscious listening, burden of choice relieved. Oh, and NUMBER ONE: artists get paid more.

The only pain in the ass is the initial outlay.

online :-)

Neuk Collective Bipolar Creative meet up later this month! neukcollective.co.uk

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I love stim culture for embracing our bodies’ rhythms. But we need to talk about how racialized surveillance changes what ‘safe stimming’ means. Not all of us can stim in public without fear

Jon Day · Gloomth: Haunted Houses Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone...

‘For many stately homes and historically significant buildings, ghosts continue to be marketable commodities, even if this sometimes makes things awkward for historians and curators.’

Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I'm full of taps, can't hold you in

Adding to the stash

We've Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren't necessary.

Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba has long called prisons “death-making institutions.” The rise in incarceration coupled with the nation’s lax approach to Covid-19 makes this characterization (yet again) a frighteningly accurate prophecy.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Psych Lit classics: From Esmé Weijun Wang's foreword to "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" (Joanne Greenberg, 1964)

Oh & there's also this, too.... (CW: Islamophobia)

Just one example (CW: transphobia)

“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”
― Joanne Greenberg

worth reminding folks here that Pregabs mixed with opioids = a really bad idea. Be careful out there.

Of course I'm forgetting I've tried to reduce on the Pregabs many times before. Oh how the mind skippidy skips n trips over the horrors.

Shake me + I'll rattle no.1: 10 days til I see consultant psych (awkwardly, a friend's husband...classic Shetland situation) & certain he'll agree to a Pregabalin reduction. Manic depressive jangles eradicated vs. being able to fully focus. In this game the choices are frustratingly endless.

David and his co-guest editor Helene Speyer, put together a compelling group of articles ultimately called Broadening Understanding of Individual Choices About Psychiatric Medication Use in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. You can find it here: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Theo pinched my seat already

The Truth About IFS, the Therapy That Can Break You Internal Family Systems is a widely popular trauma treatment. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives.

The mental health field is packed with pseudoscience and unsupported treatments. Exhibit XXXX. www.thecut.com/article/trut... @jonathanstea.bsky.social

On MKUltra: "Cameron destroyed the lives of his subjects, many of whom were exceptionally vulnerable, & achieved nothing of scientific value. His work is a catalogue of exploitation & abuse. Yet there is no comprehensive account of Cameron’s studies to be found anywhere in the bioethics literature."

Interesting so many occultists are returning from Occulture Berlin raving about "community". Ftr I pulled out of lecturing this year because I don't support embracing or even platforming Scarlet Imprint's transphobic founders. That's not my community. #occult #occulture #witchsky

My anorexic, pre~teen body was a very public, unconscious & runaway train protest. My tattooed 17 yr old body became a force for autonomy & privacy

I know people who study far right extremism professionally, I’ve done a little bit of that work myself, and if there’s one thing everyone in that circle agrees on it’s “there is zero need for the general public to expose themselves to cognitohazards and doxxing gangs for the sake of being informed.”

I have walked this body to the rim of its ends
From there I have seen everything else