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I’m so thankful this exists. I think that many people with mental health issues (myself included) downplay what they’re going through.
I’m an 8 right now. If I hadn’t seen this chart tonight I’d keep denying my struggle. Now I have to face it.
Reblogging for my followers. My own mental health took a bit of a nosedive last week. Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. ♡♡
The images above are from the DSM-5, which is the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM-5 is a really important book. It is used by doctors and mental health care providers around the world to diagnose mental disorders.
The DSM-5 explicitly and clearly recognizes asexuality, and says that if a person is asexual, that they should not be diagnosed with Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder or Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.
This book says that you are valid, your feelings are real, and that you do not have a disorder because you feel this way.
They do not know what they are talking about. You can point them at this book as proof that they are wrong.
Full Reference:
On page 434, in the section on Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (302.72), at the end of the “Diagnostic Features”, it reads:
If a lifelong lack of sexual desire is better explained by one’s self-identification as “asexual”, then a diagnosis of female sexual interest/arousal disorder would not be made.
On page 443, in the section on Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (302.71), at the end of the “Differential Diagnosis”, it reads:
If the man’s low desire is explained by self-identification as an asexual, then a diagnosis of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder is not made.
Being recognized by mainstream psychology, which often overlooks marginalized groups, is fantastic.
zac efron on the verge of tears after eating pasta is both extremely relatable and also incredibly sad
Hollywood is so toxic with men's "body goals". Society is so toxic with men's mental health. This is heartbreaking to see. I really hope we change the view point of these things.
Zac Efron’s show is an accidental documentary over one man’s lifestyle deprogramming. Almost every episode ends with him having some kind of revelation over just how fucked the culture he belonged to is and relearning what normal living is like.
Hello yes winning a shitty ex competition and watching a hagfish tear Alien-style through a fish carcass named after the boy who faked leaving the country instead of dumping me properly has done more for my mental health than the months of therapy he caused.
Honestly this just added 10 years to my life
never mind
I should make another comic about blocking people for being even mildly annoying and how good that is for your mental health.
Yeah. That’s the way to go through life… segregating yourself from anyone, any idea that you react towards emotionally.
“Practice intolerance of others, every day, to prove how bad they are.”
Congratulations on being mildly annoying and also blocked.
Anonymous asked:
I wanna fuckin die buddy my mental health is in the shitter
but double majoring isn’t so bad, and providing the majors are similar and have overlapping classes, you should be able to do it with minimal difficulty
Anonymous asked:
Yes!! I’ve gone through a similar experience. I was depressed and didn’t feel like I was doing enough but about a month later I was presenting my research at my unis physics seminar and god it was so worth it
Anonymous asked:
Be as assertive as you can be, tell them you know you have a mental health issue. If they decline to test you or look into it, tell them you want it written in their notes that THEY decided against not looking into it. They will almost always look into it after that because if they acknowledge your concern and decide against investigating and something were to go wrong because of said thing, they will be at risk of a malpractice suit.
Anonymous asked:
Tbh I don’t care, I hate therapists anyway. I had shitty experiences with them as a kid and that’s it. That ruined therapists for me. Seeing one is just gonna make me more irritable, and there’s absolutely no god damn way I’m gonna trust some random ass stranger enough to get anywhere with it.
The doc told me to look for local ones, I did, there weren’t any, that’s that.
