Fuck It. I Don't Care If I Get Hate For This, Here Are Some Tips On Safely Dealing With Factitious Disorder-like

fuck it. I don't care if i get hate for this, here are some tips on safely dealing with factitious disorder-like symptoms.

put bandaids on. a visual reminder that hey, you DO go through shit and you don't need to make it worse.

if it helps, faking/exaggerating symptoms privately can be useful, just make sure you don't fall into a habit of doing these things publicly.

remind yourself that attention seeking behaviors are not moral failings. they are a result of trauma.

ignore all this "Munchausen's by proxy" bullshit. that's child abuse. believing in Munchausen's by proxy is like saying narc abuse is a real thing.

every psychologist that's worth their salt will see attention seeking behaviors and symptoms of factitious disorder, and go, "this person is suffering, probably due to abuse."

just like you are not your intrusive thoughts, you are not your urges. you are not evil for your cries for help. you do not need to make yourself worse so other people will believe you.

i love you.

"labour optimization" holy shit

It is very difficult to be a silent and mysterious figure of the night when people can hear my cane clacking from 2 miles away

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

don’t worry everyone the doctor who wiki has everything under control