magess:

magicianmew:

pumpkinspicefemme:

pumpkinspicefemme:

you know im not trying to call anyone out or w/e but this is the type of dialogue around mental illness on this site that i think is really unhelpful. the original post has over 100k notes. why do so many people experience life as something so soul crushing that they spend every second of their day wanting to sleep and then lie awake at night trying to prevent tomorrow? not to get marxist on main but i would suggest that the op points to the misery that work under capitalism creates for a lot of people and to just be like “all of these people have an individual pathology and its not ‘normal’” i feel really undermines our ability to talk about *why* so many people are depressed

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I am glad they included that these sorts of arguments do not mean anyone is denying you have a chemical imbalance – a frequent and understandable source of hurt when people encounter them. What we’re trying to examine here is WHY. The chemical balance of our brains is affected by everything we see and do in a day, not just innate genetic biology.

To suggest, as capitalist society does, that almost 20% of Americans were just born with an inherently dysfunctional mind is so incredibly fucking ludicrous that it blows me away that anyone still tries to pretend that makes any sense. There is no fucking way that is true. We’re not just born broken. We’re struggling to function in a broken world. And that is a key difference.

It is also is affected by what you eat and how your gut microbiome is doing. Gut bacteria make neurotransmitters. Dysbiosis produces an imbalance of neurotransmitters.

yourplayersaidwhat:

Our party is fighting a band of bugbears with morningstars. I’m playing a sorc who is *this* close to dying.

DM: the bugbear comes up to… here! (Right in front of my sorc.) How do you feel about morningstars?

Me, an idiot: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh stars don’t appear in the morning so I don’t know.

(The bugbear knocks me unconscious.)

Another player: Hey wait a minute, what do you think the sun is?

trxnquilmage:

you know i hate tumblrs “i hope they do something problematic” shit so much? its not only with people like thomas sanders or john mulaney or that comic guy with the bike, but with whole ass shows and projects? like nobody ever said b99 is cop propaganda. nobody was saying that until one single person mentioned it and suddenly its the worst show you could watch because of one aspect of their show, while ignoring the shows diversity and political stances.

same happened to dream daddy, like you cant deny that that game was groundbreaking for the lgbt society, but suddlenly some people started shit like ‘uhhh but 5 years ago the game grumps made transphobic jokes’ and ‘you know that joesph is actually a satanist, right?’ and suddenly no one talked about the game anymore?

everytime someone tries their fucking best to be inclusive, diverse etc. people are digging through everything they can find just to justify that they dont like it? overwatch recently hosted a huge event to raise money for breast cancer research in association with the BCRF and without even doing one second of research people accused them of working with the susan g. komen foundation (which wasnt true) and tried to boycott a fucking charity event?

what im saying is, dont let tumblr ruin everything you love because they are bitter