Mental Health
As a Schizophrenic person, I see many talk about me as being mentally "ill" and in need of medicine. I do take medication, but for me, medication usage is similar to what one might see within ADHD communities. Medicine is a tool, not a treatment. It allows me
Neurodiversity
We often discuss anxiety and depression amongst the Autistic population. Some such as myself and Autistic and Living the Dream have pushed to get lesser discussed mental health concerns into the zeitgeist, but there is a problem with how it is framed in a more general sense. When most people
Mental Health
Up until about a year ago, I still sat firmly in the camp that, while I viewed myself as multiply neurodivergent, I was mentally ill. Over the past year I have been unlearning this lesson, and realising that mental "illness" is completely unquantifiable, and instead, I was suffering
Neurodiversity
For a long time now, we have heard the phrase "If you have met one Autistic person, you have met one Autistic person". This saying is an oversimplification of the fact that Autistic people have a wide variety of experiences, privileges, and neurocognitive styles. The question I want
medication
A consideration on how neuroqueer theory can be used to depathologise the field of psychiatry and psychiatric conditions.
Autism
For many of us, medication is a necessary part of life. For a huge portion of the Autistic population, that medication is prescribed by a psychiatrist. Psychiatric medication can be a troublesome topic, psychiatry itself is a relatively young discipline, and can often be found to be neuronormative in nature.
Healthcare
This article is not intended as medical advice, please speak to your prescriber for any medical questions pertaining to medication. This article is something of a survival guide based on my own experiences, other's experiences may differ. Recently I started a new medication on the advice of my