AspieZ

Any awkward silences are brought to you by Autism or Mental Health difficulties... #ActuallyAutistic

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@kyliegriggs88 I’m sorry I can’t help. I do pray that this pain subsides for you though.

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

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#MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #ActuallyAutistic #HarmedByPDLabel #TraumaNotPD #IatrogenicHarm #PTSD #SuicideAwareness

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@kyliegriggs88 I understand that feeling all too well...big hugs.💕

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@kyliegriggs88 I hear your pain my lovely, but please stay safe. You matter to me.💕

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@Wigglyworm8 @paulaannev Oh. I confess, I am no cat expert. Guinea pigs are more my scene and the closest mine have got to looking so relaxed is this👇🏻. 🥰

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

Well, that’s the cross stitch part of my bookmark done, and it has a rather important message. 📚🌈

#CrossStitch #Rainbow #MentalHealth #ActuallyAutistic

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@Wigglyworm8 @paulaannev I didn’t think it was a real cat...🧐

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@paulaannev I strongly empathise as I keep saying I’ve got cross stitch neck! Needs some nuckles at it!

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@paulaannev I’d have to learn to pace first - I have a tendency to do them all day and night long (the above took me 5 days with a few breaks). That’s okay now and again but not long-term. My obsessive nature and drive to finish needs taming!

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@paulaannev I didn’t use to, but I seem to have caught a cross stitch bug in the last few months! 🤣

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

@schizoschismism Thank you lovely. Certainly staying alive long enough to be able to see my psychologist again would be good. I just can’t see it happening currently. 😔

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

TW (Suicide)

MH professionals have a tendency to assume that if you go to hospital voluntarily following an attempt on your life (even with significant pressure and persuasion from others), then you didn’t really want to die. This however is rather flawed in some cases.

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[Beth Matthews @BethMatthewsz]

The only person who gets to decide if something was traumatic, is the person who experienced the event.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

The patient who you think is being difficult, angry or oversensitive is pretty much always protecting you from the extent of what they are feeling and what they’ve been through.

Managing one’s clinician so they don’t feel overwhelmed or panic is a real thing and exhausting.

[AspieZ @AutismMH]

ask me, I’d say what I was doing was all rather logical in relation to my end goal - so why can’t clinicians see that? 🤔

#NHS #MentalHealth #Suicide #SuicidePrevention #ActuallyAutistic #HarmedByPDLabel

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[AspieZ @AutismMH]

my mind was still entirely focused upon how to achieve my wish to die, despite it appearing on the surface that I was seeking help/didn’t really want to die.

And that’s how easily behaviours can be misread if you don’t know what someone’s thinking really is. Yet if you

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