Hey so like has anyone ever had basically an anxiety attack without the anxiety part?
Like I have all the physical stuff – heart beating too hard, chest feels tight, shaking slightly, etc. – but I’m not like…upset about anything? At all? And nothing has happened that would provoke this?
Of course the weirdness of it is now *adding* an emotional anxiety component to things, joy of joys. But that definitely came second.
Yes, husband has this happen. Sometimes it’s a building thing… little anxieties, things he’s not actively worried about, but that have him on higher alert. They pile up and he starts having a panic attack over literally nothing, except it’s not really nothing, it’s just that it’s not any one thing in particular. Sometimes it’s a response to stimuli he doesn’t consciously recognize – for instance, if the door is open, it aggravates his agoraphobia. But he may not realize it is… he just passes the open door and his body starts responding to it even though he’s not actually thinking about the thing.
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Nightmares end. They shouldn’t end who you are.
Sigyn, probably. (via incorrectedda)
Mental illness vs. Autism
Okay, so I’ve seen waaaaaaay too many posts lumping autistics in with mental illness groups and it’s not cool because they are completely different.
Mental illness is the equivalent of a PC with a virus. It is a working computer with its own personality that the virus has attacked and affected in its own unique way. My depression and anxiety are not a part of me and I do not like them and they change the way I think/feel/act from my ‘normal’.
Autism is the equivalent of a Mac or Linux in a world of PCs. PCs think you’re defective because you appear to be a PC with a virus but in reality you’re a WHOLE OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM with all the strengths and weaknesses of any other, that just happens to be different from the majority of computers. But being a Mac is not a problem in the same way that being a PC with a virus can be a problem.
Macs can get viruses–autistics can have mental illnesses, and people with mental illnesses can be autistic. But the two are not synonymous. We do not have the same terminology or community or anything. This doesn’t mean that it’s not okay to learn how to cope with mental illness or even be proud of it.
Some people are treated for or recover from mental illness. You cannot change being autistic. You cannot treat being autistic. You cannot recover from autism.
You cannot spend a lifetime trying to turn a Mac into a PC. You should learn how to protect and love both Macs and PCs.
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Stop referring to yourself as ‘disabled’ if you are only mentally ill
You are not disabled. You are an able-bodied person that benefits from ableism. You can physically accomplish everything that physically disabled people can’t. Stop using your mental illness as a way to completely dominate disability discourse.
Yes, people with mental illnesses are discriminated against, but let’s not pretend for a second that showing up to a job interview while suffering depression is anywhere near the equivalent of showing up to a job interview in a wheelchair.
As someone that has both severe mental illness and severe physical disabilities let me tell you: there is an enormous difference between not being able to go get groceries because you emotionally/psychologically can’t and because you physically cannot.
The word you are looking for is neurotypicalism. Not ableism. Unless you’re suffering from a mental illness that physically damages you, you are able-bodied. You do not deal with the same exclusion, erasure or silencing that actually physical disabled people do.
I have days, and weeks where I cannot get out of bed and that does not make my disabled. What makes me disabled is my literal, actual fucking disabilities. I’ve suffered from severe mental illness since I was young, but until two years ago I was not disabled. I was mentally ill. Learn the difference and please stop dominating disability discourse and harassing people who are actually disabled.
This is total bullshit. Like, complete, total, bullshit. I don’t think anything in it is actually true.
Disability discourse has historically been dominated by this attitude, and that’s a big part of what exacerbates disabilities that mostly involve brain function.
You say there is an “enormous difference”, but you know what? Many other people who also have both of those do not think that difference is enormous, or significant even. You are not the absolute arbiter of everyone else’s experience.
Correcting A Misperception: For the longest time I was perplexed by an odd modern trend where people are talking about this Goddess as an abused wife, as someone abused by Loki. There’s absolutely no reference in the lore to this ANYWHERE. So I was left wondering, why does this misinformation continue to crop up?
Apparently it’s a simple case of mistaken identity. Some folks are confusing Sigyn with the various Signys that appear in the lore. Each and ever occurrence of a Signy is conveying a human, mortal woman. Several of these women were raped, suffered injustices, and the like.
Additionally, I would not be surprised if part of the reason why Sigyn is described sometimes as an abused wife, is because some of those who perceive Loki as evil incarnate, automatically assume that He must also be abusive. But we have nothing to suggest that he has ever been abusive to his wife, and in fact as we see in the ancient law codes (Gulaþing Law, etc.), a woman could divorce a husband if he struck her, and while more difficult, could also divorce because she was unhappy.
Holding the Bowl 