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How do you say people who self harm should be treated with kindness when their bodies are seen as attacks on others, to say that self harm shouldn't be a problem hidden in the dark, when we do exactly that by not allowing representations of self harm?

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halfway through the novel and so far it's been a wannabe euphoria in a novel. tired of the protagonist thinking she has a higher moral ground for choosing ativan and oxy over heroin like her selfish sister. it feels like her mother, her sister or Ronnie or Franklin exist just for plot devices who give the protagonist 'trauma'. and now we are introduced to her new gay love interest Sasha who is a psychic

20 pages in and i know im gonna hate this book but desperate for bisexual acid tripping sex so 😓

i knew it would be insane but i didn't know it would be this insane

Laid thick with the values of neoliberalism, the discourse of “positive mental health” no longer focuses primarily on bringing the “insane” back to some state of normality but rather on the self-improvement of the individual. It is no longer enough to be “sane” or “normal”; one has to be constantly striving to be more positive and happier in life. This is a
therapeutic quest which perfectly aligns with the..

“We have to remember,” stated the psychiatrist E. H. Parsons (cited in Whitaker
2010a : 50–51) in 1955, “that we are not treating diseases with this drug
… We are using a neuropharmacologic agent to produce a specific effect.” That effect has been summated by Breggin ( 1991 : 55, emphasis original) as, “[p]atient’s don’t lose their symptoms, they lose interest in them.”

holy fuck. 'real women have bodies' is my favourite till now.

The major idea introduced in the second chapter was Marx's idea of commodity. It consists of two parts: use value and exchange value. Waterstone outlines how there are two sources where money goes: one in buying inputs or means of production i.e. machinery and other resources, and teo is the cost of labour power or the salary of the individuals defined by the average wage or the basket of commodities necessary.

once again i have zero friends so to celebrate I'll read Dostoyevsky again and try to feel some emotion through raskolnikov's monologues

wanted to start reading early for pride month cause i want to write an editorial for my college

How invisibly
it changes color
in this world,
the flower
of the human heart.