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Disabled Community Megathread from April 14, 2025 to April 30, 2025 (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by AshenWolf@hexbear.net to c/disabled@hexbear.net

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Hi everyone! That's right, it's time for another c/disabled megathread.

Update on the meds: they work! Quite well, actually. I feel like I'm finally functioning at a reasonable level, like I was not only getting stuff done, but I'm now able to actually effectively multitask (as much as one can lol). I'm quite happy with how it's working, and I might not even need an SSRI at this point. If I'm getting anxiety from the meds, I'm not feeling it, because they actually reduced the amount of anxiety I have to deal with. I don't know how (thinking ADHD-induced anxiety), but yeah, I'm a lot better than I was just last week. Quite happy for that, might actually be able to manage the end of the semester without crashing and burning this time around.

As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:

"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

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[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't know if anyone remembers me talking about my awful therapist a few months ago. Thankfully those sessions finally ended, I only stuck it out to help with my benefit appeal. Well yesterday I got an email from some random person at the mental health service, asking how things are going and wondering whether they should offer me another treatment. This was my response:

I am not sure what the point is. Your service doesn't ever give me a treatment. Your therapists just do time-wasting nonsense so they can collect a paycheque. Last time I asked if I could have something that might actually make a difference, like EDMR and was told no, it wouldn't be suitable for me because it might bring bad feelings up. So instead the therapist spent each session doing a meditation and telling me to write timetables for myself. What is this supposed to achieve? It's nonsense, this is not medical treatment. Not only is it unhelpful, it makes things worse because I have the stress and commitment of turning up to these sessions each week, while being given absolutely no benefit at all. The therapist before that around 2019, the entire treatment consisted of being told to write lists of reasons I shouldn't feel bad, and then look at those lists when I feel depressed or anxious and this will magically cure me. I'm tired of having my time wasted by therapists who don't care and just want their paycheque. If you are unable or unwilling to give me a serious therapy then just don't bother me any more.

I guess I'll wait and see what their response is. Part of me is thinking maybe I shouldn't have said this, if this person tells my shitty therapist what I said maybe the therapist will be angry and try to ruin my benefit appeal somehow. She already threatened that if they asked she would tell them I hadn't been to all the sessions.

And the weird menthol-tingling feeling is back. It probably got missed as it was in a response to a message further down but basically I had a terrible migraine that started off as a menthol-tingling feeling in my crotch, then spread down my right leg, into my right arm and into the right side of my face. After 5 hours in casualty(thinking it could be a stroke or trapped nerve) and a GP appointment it was finally diagnosed as a hemiplegic migraine and a migraine med got rid of it. Now the tingling menthol feeling is back in my crotch.

Also having trouble changing my own foot bandages, I'll have to see if I can get an appointment with the nurse to do it.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

I do remember the awful therapist

Last time I asked if I could have something that might actually make a difference, like EDMR and was told no, it wouldn't be suitable for me because it might bring bad feelings up.

That's the point... No? To give you the space, time and help to work through things, which will bring up bad feelings.