Official Mental Health Thread

[WWWP]

It just doesn't matter to me one way or another how someone identifies. I unconditionally support seizing your own self image, though that's probably because I was never allowed to have my own identity until I was in my teens.

[OccultHawk]

this is sort of an embarrassing post

Nothing to be embarrassed about.

I think it’s cool that the you of this moment doesn’t feel forced to be tied down by the you of the past. Most people don’t have the strength to let the past go and to be adaptable like that. I don’t think it’s fair to say you were wrong but still to come out and say “I was wrong” is courageous. Being true to yourself is awesome. Good for you.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by WWWP

It just doesn't matter to me one way or another how someone identifies. I unconditionally support seizing your own self image, though that's probably because I was never allowed to have my own identity until I was in my teens.

I mean yeah totally, sometimes I think I should wear nothing but women's clothing for six months just to divorce myself from the thought of men's clothing standards and then see what I actually want to wear after those six months.

But I can't help but feel that we're still drooling vegetables trying to reach higher truths about gender when the entire societal concept of gender in the first place is a drooling vegetable concept informed by evolutionary instincts so bound by societal constructs that we can't even figure out if there's an evolutionary instinct there in the first place.

[Anteater]

I've been told that having to deal with gender dysphoria is like drawing the absolute worst hand in poker on the first round.

My team and I all seem to be holding up pretty good. Everyone's doing their best to practice social distancing.

On the plus side, there's never been a better era to catch up on actual books you never got around to reading, and it has gotten me more motivated to get back to writing that world-hopping epic I started on a year ago but got writer's block on.

[OccultHawk]

I’m having a tough time managing my anxiety today.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I’m having a tough time managing my anxiety today.

Have you ever tried propranolol? Ask your doctor obviously but it might help. That's what I'm on. It helps with the physical symptoms cos it slows your heart rate down. It's a heart medication. It does work.

No side effects or anything for me.

[DwnWthVwls]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Tristan Rosenstock

So this is sort of an embarrassing post to write, but as it turns out I am not non-binary.

A symptom of BPD is a fragile self-image, and that has manifested in myself and other accounts that I've read as frantically reaching for labels to describe one's self. Over the years what that meant for me was thinking I was asexual, demisexual, allosexual, bisexual, non-binary, switching between these labels every 6 months or so. I think some of you might remember a time on this forum where I described myself as asexual, when it turns out I have a pretty average (and straight as hell) sex drive.

Instead of thinking of myself as part of the problem of a straight person infiltrating queer spaces, I instead think that this experience in my life has given me more empathy and understanding for the LGBTQ+ community from a standpoint that many straight people are not able to experience, my friend group for a time in 2019 dating a specific person consisted of mostly trans people, and one of my closest friends since 2018 is trans.

I guess one of the reasons I'm saying this is that I'm confused as to how to come un-out to the friends who have for over a year respected my pronouns and thought of me as trans. Would doing so make me lose these friends due to the misunderstanding? At least a few of them I'm really scared to come out to as they now openly display parts of their sexuality and gender partially as a result of my openness in my gender.

That being said, gender is certainly a construct and since I was young I always questioned gender roles and didn't really consider myself "masculine", but that doesn't necessarily negate the non-binary label. I have no desire to transition and while I don't display a lot of masculine characteristics in my personality, I don't display a lot of feminine characteristics either. I've never been attracted to men, and I've only ever dated women, outside of trying to date a man when I was confused by my queer label and trying to be open to it. But alas. I'm a straight male and I'm comfortable with that fact now.

If your friends didnt care you were trans they probably dont care that youre not trans. This is part of the reason I hate all the labeling and gender bs. You are you and we all express our person differently. Defining yourself by norms is as stupid to me as defining your political position based on the 2 big options instead of discussing things 1 by 1.

[Oriphiel]

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Fluff

Have you ever tried propranolol? Ask your doctor obviously but it might help. That's what I'm on. It helps with the physical symptoms cos it slows your heart rate down. It's a heart medication. It does work.

No side effects or anything for me.

Preciate it

[jwb]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I mean yeah totally, sometimes I think I should wear nothing but women's clothing for six months

I agree whole heartedly