Tw: “self-harm”, suicide: self-harm & self-destruction are inaccurate & moralizing terms re mental illness

This is archiving a Twitter thread I wrote [suicide, “self-harm”]Possibly hot take: I really don’t like words like self-harm & self-destruction when talking abt mental illness. Ppl are learning to say dying by suicide instead of committing suicide [as if it was a sin/crime] to highlight it as due to a medical issue. 1/ [“self-harm”]Saying […]

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“Biospsychosocial” model & #MedicalGaslighting

This post is to archive a Twitter thread [https://twitter.com/hellozeik/status/1602017019993260032?s=46&t=jIQSmBcZHUcffcA8RmZhxw]: What pisses me off extra abt the “biopsychosocial” stuff is it had potential to actually do so much good…instead it’s just morphed into latest iteration of hysteria worldview in medicine but w a veneer of systems thinking / social justice language. Healthcare providers have convinced themselves […]

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Insight & Control: 2 extremely important mental illness concepts

This post is to describe some concepts I’ll be referencing in other posts & which I think are extremely important for the general public to understand. They’re common knowledge in psychiatry/psychology but rarely show up in mental health discussions among the wider public. This includes many progressive & leftist spaces that promote discussions on mental […]

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What’s the opposite of conflicting access needs? Tw: suicidal ideation

You know how there’s the concept of conflicting access needs in the disability community? Including with yourself? Like, for example, I need background music to focus on certain tasks but I can’t put it on because of hyperacusis. I don’t know if there’s a term for the opposite of that? Where symptoms of one illness […]

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My finding psychiatric care saga or how hard it is to “get help” even with immense social privilege

This is traumatic to write about because it’s tied up emotionally with what happened next, which is me getting hospitalized in a psych ward, which I don’t wish on my worst enemies. I can’t write about that, not yet. So this saga will end in a bit abruptly till I can get out the rest […]

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