sappho [she/her]

Thank you for sharing, this is fantastic news. I was hoping to hear more about Enovid’s efficacy

If you base your whole identity around conforming to society’s idea of masculinity, it’s quite destabilizing to see any critique of that. So the very idea is “deranged” and what we really need is more “paternalism”

So many have died and no one is mourning them. Every day our leaders loosen restrictions and downplay the severity of the virus. It’s mass death without respect and without closure. So maybe part of you wants to watch that number to see that it’s real, to see that at least one person cares - yourself.

I think you just connected something for me… I browsed /r/TiA way, way early on, when it was mostly about otherkin and in that brief window before it really went to shit. I found my diary from high school and inside I have this huge crisis about whether I’m “really depressed or just lazy.” It was strange to read because I don’t remember how I got so many of those ideas or that it took me so long to realize I very obviously was mentally ill. Now I’m thinking I must have absorbed it from the anti-SJW culture.

The vast majority of mental illnesses are caused by trauma. Our entire society is fundamentally trauma-engendering because many of our primary life-or-death drives center around life in a tribe, and we have decimated our number and quality of social relations as well as our connection to meaningful communal labor. This concept of trauma-induced illness has been actively suppressed in psychology literally since Freud and still is today (see: why CPTSD is not in the DSM-V). If the human race continues to advance scientifically, modern day psychiatric care with its myopic emphasis on mysterious “chemical imbalances” will eventually be considered as barbaric as the use of asylums.