It really is. If you know or suspect of anyone who might be suffering just talk to them. Remind them of all the great things in life :)
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Finally! A chance to talk about my favorite cocktail party topics: BIPOLAR DEPRESSION and ELECTROCONVUSLIVE THERAPY!
Here are some talking points for you:
*Electroconvulsive therapy has benefits (rarely though)! It’s most often used for schizophrenics or those with severe major depression, the sort that includes periods of catatonic paralysis. Did you see Melancholia (it’s on netflix!)? It’s like how Kirsten Dunst was when her sister tried to giver her bath. Poor Kiki. Poor Beth.
*Did you catch what Beth’s brute husband said? How she spreads her legs for the first chump that comes along? Between that comment and Beth’s post-coital musings on death and the feeling of DOOM after looking at pictures of earth from space, it’s safe to assume that she’s bipolar. Especially since it sounds like she’s fucked around before, meaning, perhaps, HYPOMANIA! A distinguishing characteristic of bipolar disorder :
Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., the person engages in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
* Bipolar didn’t even have a name in 1966, psychiatrists were still using DSM 1 from 1952! The DSM wasn’t updated until 1968. That means thirty six years where severe, manic, major, bipolar, unipolar, schizophrenia, were all lumped into one category as some sort of organic brain disorder. Thus, treatment was as blunt as the diagnosis.
*The memory loss issue with ECT is very real! A 1986 study on ECT interviewed 41 recipients of the treatment. 83 percent of women said they had experienced short and long term memory loss. Many of them had treatment in the mid sixties. Here are some quotes from the study:
- “”I can’t remember my 20-year Marine Corps career…or daughter’s birth or childhood…”]
- “Turned me into a walking zombie, killing all emotions and feelings for several months…”
- “It’s like a bomb being set off inside your head…literally a mind-blowing torture…”
- “I couldn’t remember people’s names, but it gradually came back…with some prompting…”
- “Doctor stopped returning my phone calls when I said ‘memory’s not returning…’”
Temporary bandages on permanent wounds and such. :(
Damn I feel like a smokin’ badass! Photo by Juli Adams of Christie Grace, Vintage Pulp theme
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“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” -Margaret Atwood
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Reblogging for the Atwood quote, which is showing its truthiness right here.
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so, women have privilege because we call men creepy. ok. that makes sense…in backwards land.
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creep shaming. bahaha. baha. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.
here’s teh thing, cis dudebros.
stop raping us in disproportionate numbers and stop assuming we’re your sexual property. also, stop cat-calling.
and we’ll magically stop ‘creep shaming’ you.
it’s funny how i don’t creep shame guys from my church as they are comfortable with the mode of physical contact i am and they treat me like (gosh) a human being, not a vagina. ( i realize thatn ot all churchdudes are like this, i’m just citing mine).
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“Creep-shaming”
WTF
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Creep shaming
Creep shaming
CREEP SHAMING
lolol
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Here’s a novel thought.
Stop being creepy.
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i can’t really express how angry this makes me. like seriously? like i can’t really say anything that hasn’t already been said here but FUCK the ridonkulous manpain in this…
OMG IF I ACT LIKE A SEXUALLY ENTITLED DOUCHEBAG I’LL BE OSTRACIZED!!!! no, no you won’t. people will let you walk around doing whatever the fuck you want. people won’t stop you, people won’t believe the people (or rather, the women) who you’ve harassed/raped/assaulted. god, whoever wrote this should just throw themself off a cliff. they aren’t doing anyone any favors.
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PSH!! In our local sex positive community we’ve recently had an uproar about men picture stalking bloggers and writers, and it leaking into their personal lives - these men leave sexual comments on public venues! Two days ago, it was on one of the founding member’s -11 year old- daughter!!! And then they were offended at being “Creep Shamed” because of not knowing her age!!
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