If you have ever filled out a diagnostic questionnaire, which questions bugged you (and why) & which did you think were missing?
You can also answer privately, if you want.
I'm am starting to collect questions and ideas in order to optimise diagnostic tools.
Please add, which diagnosis you're referring to and which language the questionnaire was in.
It doesn't matter which one it is, here are just some examples: #ADHD#autism#depression#PTSD#cPTSD#DID#anxiety
As a sober individual living with clinical depression, I find immense peace amidst the natural world. Walking in sunshine, like at Waitt’s Mount in Malden, invigorates both my mind and body. 🌳
Remember, physical activity comes in many forms—find what works for you!👟🚴♀️🧘🏽♂️☯️
🎯Swap your screen for sunshine! Walk, stroll, or ride—just get moving! Your body and mind will thank you. ☀️
Usually, I don't link to the corporatist #SocialMedia surveillance sites. Today, I'm going to make an exception due to the gravity of this #ProofOfCollusion between #TFG and the #Kremlin
#ItFollows is the most disturbing #horror#movie I've ever seen, including #NightOfTheLivingDeafd, which traumatized 10 year old me back in 1968 (the gas station and basement scenes, especially).
Although I understand and probably agree with the interpretation in this video (I'll need to rewatch it to be sure), for me the "It" in It Follows struck me as #depression, at least in part, because I was deep in depression when it was released, and this is how it felt.
The craziest part of forgetting my depression meds I take at night (it happens) is how much I feel their loss the next day. I can fully feel my stupid brain SCREAMING nonsense at me just like it has for 30+ years now when it's unmedicated. I'm not sure if I'll ever be used to it, but I can recognize it and understand it. And even just having a slight half-life of the remnants of the previous days' dose (or maybe all the experience with it) helps me better not latch onto the thoughts and they can just pass by easier. It's wild, and I hate it. But here we are 🤣 Thankful for the meds, though. Without them is hell.
Dalilah was my mom's only companion when I was out working 13-14 hrs a day, a bulk of that was travel on 3-4 buses
From 2015-2021 Mom only had Dalilah to talk with and she gave her so much joy and warmth
Mom's not been the same since we had to say goodbye 03.11.22 Mom knew my bun was sick but didn't understand she wasn't going to wake up again that afternoon until it happened...
When I lost her two years ago I felt the weight of those negative beliefs pour onto me all over again, thinking it was my fault for the #poverty I've been fighting, being unable to take her to the vet in the early years I had her, thinking it was compounded damage from the years that I struggled to get her needs met because of my #ChronicPain and fatigue and #depression
Even though in her last hours she wanted me at her side, more than food, more than water
I had a spate of technical problems which undermined my mental health over this winter, and in the last couple of weeks I got to the point I thought I'd fixed most of them...
But I haven't fixed all of them, and continuing problems with computer connectivity in particular are leading me back towards crisis. Things are objectively better than they were, but that is very hard to cling on to.
There is no poem in me today,<br></br>the music of my spirit sleeps<br></br>and golden things have fallen dull<br></br>while my internal jester weeps.<br></br><br></br>The joys I had have all gone deaf,<br></br>my muted sense of beauty dried<br></br>and shriveled under harsher light,<br></br>by introspection it has died.<br></br><br></br>Today I am a shallow husk,<br></br>a drab container for my mind,<br></br>I look with sallow, bleary eyes<br></br>at tarnished words that once have shined.<br></br><br></br>There is no song to hear today,<br></br>there is no pleasure to be had,<br></br>but I draw breath, I yet survive,<br></br>and for my life, I am yet glad.<br></br><br></br>The sadnesses of life all come<br></br>and go again, in their due time;<br></br>afflatus winds will blow again<br></br>and life, like verse, resolve in rhyme.<br></br><br></br>I am for just one hour entrapped in night:<br></br>I must endure its chill ‘til morning’s light.<br></br>
I'm far too fascinated with far too many topics. I've compiled an exhaustive list of hashtags for some of those interests; I'll try to do better about keeping it current and updated.
Es gibt verschiedene "Glückshormone", die jeweils unterschiedliche Wirkung haben, am Ende aber alle irgendwie glücklich machen. Wie können wir sie auf natürliche Weise aktivieren? Von Elisabeth Theodoropoulos.
One of the really, really evil things about my depression is that it often comes with anhedonia - the inability to experience pleasure - but I can still feel anger.
So the seductive nature of letting myself get really angry about a thing, and stay angry, just to feel something other than down is powerful.
@neurovagrant thank you, today I learned that there's a word for my condition. I always thought it's just my #depression but I just learned that #anhedonia can exist independently.
#AI#AIart#depression
Two images I made that represent me, fighting with my dark monster (depression). I am the Pixy, dressed in purple, not afraid to fight. Determined to win the fight against the dark monster.
Whoever needs to hear this... If you give up, then things will get worse. That's the second law of thermodynamics. Don't give up. Who knows, things might get better. If you're really #depressed though, it could very well mean that whatever you're doing isn't working. So, change something. I like to see depression as a tool these days. It's telling me something. I just have to read it right.
Signed sincerely, someone who spent decades depressed.
#Tunis : Distribution du guide de l’ #éducateur pour l’accompagnement des enfants #autistes à Ben #Arous
Le guide de l’éducateur a été remis pour la première fois à l’échelle nationale, aux différents établissements et structures de l’état et aux associations et organisations.
Hazel3 is saying Goodbye to Emeraldia
My Argument with Hazel3/CuteVixen is Over. After Many Years, Hazel the Vixen is saying Goodbye to Emeraldia after the Argument Stopped....