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You know what I never see on the Internet? Psychosis positivity. I mean, every once in a while there's some post about psychosis that goes "as an ethnological curiosity, we'll mention that folks in other (not American) cultures may have more positive views of psychosis, and even have positive psychotic experiences that make them feel better instead of worse." Then they keep talking about people whose psychosis makes them feel like shit. Even on Tumblr, where you get posts from people who actually have psychosis, the best you'll get is "these are the techniques I use to reduce how shitty my psychosis makes me feel."

Eh, maybe what's at issue is my own narrow view of the world. I see plural and otherkin positivity on Tumblr. Either it's stuff I personally think is true and not psychotic, or it's stuff the people posting it think is true, so I'm not gonna insult them by calling them psychotic. Maybe actual psychosis positivity requires not caring which "truths" are provable.

(Sadly, I don't feel I can be neutral when Christian whackjobs keep trying to force the rest of us to live according to "truths" they can't prove.)
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The real question for prison abolitionists isn’t “what do we do with rapists?” It’s “what do we do with pyromaniacs?” They went into abusive mental institutions, so we shut those down. Now they go into abusive prisons instead. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a society that can make every pyromaniac not want to set fires, so one way or another, there will be strong social pressure to remove them from the community. I also don’t believe that removal can be stopped, so it needs to be managed in a way that learns from the mistakes of the past and avoids creating yet another abusive institution.
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Nightmare became multiple because they were exposed to magic rocks. Ptilopsis hears voices from being exposed to the same rocks. These devs do know that hearing voices isn’t the same as being multiple, right?
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There’s something weirdly reassuring about the state of my mental health, to know that nothing I write will ever be as depressing as the average Vietnam War memoir. That darkness, at least, I’ve been spared in my life.

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