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i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

  • don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
  • assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
  • encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others
  • start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
  • do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode

what it does not mean:

  • insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

night vale was such an experiment in fan interpretation. you have a leading character who’s appearance is never described beyond “not fat or thin or short or tall”. the most we really know about like, personal characteristics is that he’s a radio announcer. he’s gay. he owns a cat. he’s jewish. he’s weird. the only real thing the audience gets that’s clear cut is that he dresses very badly; like humorously awful. fanny packs and fur tunics. and what is the most prevalent, wide reaching fan interpretation of this? thin blond white dude in a suit.

this is 100% why i never fucked with that “normcore” nonsense and why i’m still extremely self-conscious about what i wear and how my clothes fit, even after my weight loss. wearing “normal” clothes only becomes “fashion” when it’s on skinny attractive people and once it’s on a fat person it’s suddenly the trappings of the tacky and the unwashed poors. fuck out of here. you can make anything look good.

We need to make puffy fat cheeks the new it girl beauty trend and give all those celebrities who sucked out their buccal fat body dysmorphia

jfc every "body positivity" post on this godforsaken site is BEING OVERWEIGHT IS SO HOT AND THIN PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED how fucking hard is it to be nice to one group without tearing other people down

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Thin people should be ashamed and they should cut their own arms off

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