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Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

There’s a slightly bleak and apologetic note to Mari Ruti’s writing here on pg 156 of The Call of Character. There’s a much nicer way of framing this: through therapeutic work we can begin to craft our own symptom rather than grapple with what spontaneously emerges. Once you understand the work something destructive is doing for you, it becomes possible to find other ways of scratching that psychic itch:

In this context, it is useful to recall that a symptom is at bottom a method of binding energy that has no other place to go. This implies that to the extent that we are able to devise an effective way of discharging our excess energy, we might be able to dodge the most voracious of symptoms. Many high-achieving individuals, for instance, are successful in part because they have found a suitable outlet for the surplus of energy that courses through their bodies and minds. Consciously or unconsciously, such individuals understand that they have a choice between pathology and achievement, that the less they are able to pour their tension into their accomplishments, the more likely it is to erupt in painful symptoms, obsessions, neuroses, and addictions of various kinds. This may seem like a sad state of affairs, and it may also be an addiction of sorts, but it is arguably one of the least destructive means of processing anxiety.

Once you cut through the mystification, there’s a deeply affirming message buried at the heart of Lacanian theory and practice: frantically looking for something to complete you is getting in the way of enjoying the many things you do have in your existence. There is a great deal of enjoyment to be had in existence, if only you can prise yourself out of the struggle to find some final resolution to it all. Ultimately I think it’s quite similar to what Bollas says in quite a straightforward mode: “I am telling the patients to stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being, and get to what one can know by simply relaxing and talking”.

Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

There’s a slightly bleak and apologetic note to Mari Ruti’s writing here on pg 156 of The Call of Character. There’s a much nicer way of framing this: through therapeutic work we can begin to craft our own symptom rather than grapple with what spontaneously emerges. Once you understand the work something destructive is doing for you, it becomes possible to find other ways of scratching that psychic itch:

In this context, it is useful to recall that a symptom is at bottom a method of binding energy that has no other place to go. This implies that to the extent that we are able to devise an effective way of discharging our excess energy, we might be able to dodge the most voracious of symptoms. Many high-achieving individuals, for instance, are successful in part because they have found a suitable outlet for the surplus of energy that courses through their bodies and minds. Consciously or unconsciously, such individuals understand that they have a choice between pathology and achievement, that the less they are able to pour their tension into their accomplishments, the more likely it is to erupt in painful symptoms, obsessions, neuroses, and addictions of various kinds. This may seem like a sad state of affairs, and it may also be an addiction of sorts, but it is arguably one of the least destructive means of processing anxiety.

Once you cut through the mystification, there’s a deeply affirming message buried at the heart of Lacanian theory and practice: frantically looking for something to complete you is getting in the way of enjoying the many things you do have in your existence. There is a great deal of enjoyment to be had in existence, if only you can prise yourself out of the struggle to find some final resolution to it all. Ultimately I think it’s quite similar to what Bollas says in quite a straightforward mode: “I am telling the patients to stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being, and get to what one can know by simply relaxing and talking”.

Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

There’s a slightly bleak and apologetic note to Mari Ruti’s writing here on pg 156 of The Call of Character. There’s a much nicer way of framing this: through therapeutic work we can begin to craft our own symptom rather than grapple with what spontaneously emerges. Once you understand the work something destructive is doing for you, it becomes possible to find other ways of scratching that psychic itch:

In this context, it is useful to recall that a symptom is at bottom a method of binding energy that has no other place to go. This implies that to the extent that we are able to devise an effective way of discharging our excess energy, we might be able to dodge the most voracious of symptoms. Many high-achieving individuals, for instance, are successful in part because they have found a suitable outlet for the surplus of energy that courses through their bodies and minds. Consciously or unconsciously, such individuals understand that they have a choice between pathology and achievement, that the less they are able to pour their tension into their accomplishments, the more likely it is to erupt in painful symptoms, obsessions, neuroses, and addictions of various kinds. This may seem like a sad state of affairs, and it may also be an addiction of sorts, but it is arguably one of the least destructive means of processing anxiety.

Once you cut through the mystification, there’s a deeply affirming message buried at the heart of Lacanian theory and practice: frantically looking for something to complete you is getting in the way of enjoying the many things you do have in your existence. There is a great deal of enjoyment to be had in existence, if only you can prise yourself out of the struggle to find some final resolution to it all. Ultimately I think it’s quite similar to what Bollas says in quite a straightforward mode: “I am telling the patients to stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being, and get to what one can know by simply relaxing and talking”.

Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

There’s a slightly bleak and apologetic note to Mari Ruti’s writing here on pg 156 of The Call of Character. There’s a much nicer way of framing this: through therapeutic work we can begin to craft our own symptom rather than grapple with what spontaneously emerges. Once you understand the work something destructive is doing for you, it becomes possible to find other ways of scratching that psychic itch:

In this context, it is useful to recall that a symptom is at bottom a method of binding energy that has no other place to go. This implies that to the extent that we are able to devise an effective way of discharging our excess energy, we might be able to dodge the most voracious of symptoms. Many high-achieving individuals, for instance, are successful in part because they have found a suitable outlet for the surplus of energy that courses through their bodies and minds. Consciously or unconsciously, such individuals understand that they have a choice between pathology and achievement, that the less they are able to pour their tension into their accomplishments, the more likely it is to erupt in painful symptoms, obsessions, neuroses, and addictions of various kinds. This may seem like a sad state of affairs, and it may also be an addiction of sorts, but it is arguably one of the least destructive means of processing anxiety.

Once you cut through the mystification, there’s a deeply affirming message buried at the heart of Lacanian theory and practice: frantically looking for something to complete you is getting in the way of enjoying the many things you do have in your existence. There is a great deal of enjoyment to be had in existence, if only you can prise yourself out of the struggle to find some final resolution to it all. Ultimately I think it’s quite similar to what Bollas says in quite a straightforward mode: “I am telling the patients to stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being, and get to what one can know by simply relaxing and talking”.

https://www.europesays.com/uk/957974/ France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak #AmbassadorCruiseLine #Belfast #Bordeaux #BritishCruiseShip #EU #Europe #France #FranceConfine #GastroenteritisOutbreak #GastrointestinalIllness #HantavirusCase #JointStatement #Liverpool #NorthernSpain #Passenger #symptom #Vessel #wednesday

France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak

PARIS — Over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship were ordered to remain on board after an…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #AmbassadorCruiseLine #Belfast #Bordeaux #britishcruiseship #franceconfine #gastroenteritisoutbreak #gastrointestinalillness #hantaviruscase #jointstatement #Liverpool #northernspain #passenger #symptom #vessel #wednesday
https://www.europesays.com/france/14393/

https://www.europesays.com/news/28083/ Kansas health officials monitoring 3 exposed to hantavirus #andes #AndesVirus #contact #Cruise #CruiseShip #exposed #exposure #fever #Hantavirus #Headlines #Health #HighRisk #HighRiskExposure #HvMondius #individual #Kansas #KansasDepartment #KansasHealthOfficial #MuscleAche #News #passenger #people #person #quarantine #risk #symptom #symptoms #TopStories #virus

https://www.europesays.com/at/153712/ So zeigt sich ein Vitamin-D-Mangel: Diese Symptome müssen Sie erkennen #AT #Austria #Gehalt #Gesundheit #Health #HelenaOrfanosBoeckel #KaiJLüthgens #MSDSHARPUndDOHMEGMBH #Nanogramm #Österreich #Ratgeber #RobertKochInstitut #Symptom #VitaminDSpiegel #VitaminD

WHO reassures Spanish island as hantavirus-stricken ship en route

TENERIFE, Spain — The head of the World Health Organization sought Saturday to reassure residents of the Spanish island where…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #authority #board #crewmember #Flight #garcia #Hantavirus #passenger #People #Saturday #ship #spanishisland #symptom #Tenerife #Virus
https://www.europesays.com/spain/20204/

https://www.europesays.com/at/144602/ Lewy-Körperchen-Demenz: Behandlung – diese Medikamente können die Symptome verschlimmern #AlzheimerForschungInitiative #Antipsychotika #AT #Austria #Behandlung #Demenzform #Gesundheit #Health #Medikament #MSDSHARPUndDOHMEGMBH #Österreich #Symptom #TV #UniversitätsklinikumFreiburg

https://www.europesays.com/at/128372/ ADHS-Symptome lindern: Gezieltes Training für Erwachsene #100633310 #100911164 #ADHS #AT #Austria #Gesundheit #Health #Medikament #Örebro #Österreich #Schlaf #Schweden #Symptom #Universität

https://www.europesays.com/at/101465/ Diese Symptome müssen Sie erkennen #AT #Austria #Gehalt #Gesundheit #Health #HelenaOrfanosBoeckel #MSDSHARPUndDOHMEGMBH #Nanogramm #Österreich #Ratgeber #RKI #RobertKochInstitut #Symptom #VitaminDSpiegel #VitaminD

https://www.europesays.com/at/82785/ Diese Symptome müssen Sie erkennen #AT #Austria #Gehalt #Gesundheit #Health #HelenaOrfanosBoeckel #MSDSHARPUndDOHMEGMBH #Nanogramm #Österreich #Ratgeber #RKI #RobertKochInstitut #Symptom #VitaminDSpiegel #VitaminD

https://www.europesays.com/at/68716/ Diese Symptome müssen Sie erkennen #AT #Austria #Gehalt #Gesundheit #Health #HelenaOrfanosBoeckel #MSDSHARPUndDOHMEGMBH #Nanogramm #Österreich #Ratgeber #RKI #RobertKochInstitut #Symptom #VitaminDSpiegel #VitaminD

https://www.europesays.com/at/50049/ Aphthen-Therapie: Naturmedizin und Hightech vereinen sich ( Finanztrends) #Aphthen #AT #Austria #Behandlung #Betroffenen #Das #Die #Gesundheit #Health #Heilmittel #Hoffnung #Klinische #Leitlinien #Millionen #Mund #Österreich #revolution #Symptom #Ursache: #Vom #WirkstoffFreisetzungstechnologie

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

@hamishcampbell (2/9)
So far I got the feeling that you have either completly rejected somewhat #traditional-funding , or maybe it didn't happen due to #tone . Many #projects closed due to lack of #funding look like a #symptom of this. As someone who would love to fully dedicate myself to the #goals that I am truly #passion ate for, but still likes to eat and at the same time has feelings of opposition to some possible #solutions , I highly #empathize with it.
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Fehleranalyse in komplexen JavaEE-Anwendungen wirkt für viele Einsteiger zunächst wie ein undurchsichtiger Prozess. Im Alltag treffen unterschiedliche Frameworks, Serverkonfigurationen, Datenbanken und Frontend-Komponenten aufeinander. Wenn irgendwo etwas nicht so funktioniert,...

https://magicmarcy.de/fehleranalyse-wenn-der-teufel-im-detail-steckt

#Fehleranalyse #JavaEE #JakartaEE #Fehlersuche #Problem_verstehen #Symptom #Ursache #Analyse #Stacktrace #Reproduzierbarkeit #Muster #Eingrenzung

Fehleranalyse in komplexen JavaEE-Anwendungen wirkt für viele Einsteiger zunächst wie ein undurchsichtiger Prozess. Im Alltag treffen unterschiedliche Frameworks, Serverkonfigurationen, Datenbanken und Frontend-Komponenten aufeinander. Wenn irgendwo etwas nicht so funktioniert,...

https://magicmarcy.de/fehleranalyse-wenn-der-teufel-im-detail-steckt

#Fehleranalyse #JavaEE #JakartaEE #Fehlersuche #Problem_verstehen #Symptom #Ursache #Analyse #Stacktrace #Reproduzierbarkeit #Muster #Eingrenzung

Fehleranalyse in komplexen JavaEE-Anwendungen wirkt für viele Einsteiger zunächst wie ein undurchsichtiger Prozess. Im Alltag treffen unterschiedliche Frameworks, Serverkonfigurationen, Datenbanken und Frontend-Komponenten aufeinander. Wenn irgendwo etwas nicht so funktioniert,...

https://magicmarcy.de/fehleranalyse-wenn-der-teufel-im-detail-steckt

#Fehleranalyse #JavaEE #JakartaEE #Fehlersuche #Problem_verstehen #Symptom #Ursache #Analyse #Stacktrace #Reproduzierbarkeit #Muster #Eingrenzung

Congratulations, Emmanuel, on this online publication showing how #sirolimus treatment can be adapted to patients' needs. Most #patients with #slow-#flow #vascular #malformations benefit to some extent, and many experience significant #symptom reduction even with #intermittent dosing. This is a big step forward in the #multimodal management of vascular malformations. #VASCERN #VASCAPA #CMTC #HEVAS #WELRI #ISSVA #EVDays #deduveinstitute #Leducq #Radiorg #Eurordis #Lymph

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13023-025-04151-y

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis

I need to pick a “job title” to describe the work I do here. I initially tried to make a poll with a plug in, but alas it didn’t work the way I hoped.

Here are some of the options I’m considering. Feel free to reply/comment with any or suggest your own!:

• Health & Care Advocacy Designer
• Mast Cell Artist Syndrome
• Chronically ill-ustrating Health Advocacy
• Plague Artist

Rejected (not great for professional use) options that I’ll share with you because I love you, but don’t tell my PCP about any of these, k?

• Notorious Self-Diagnoser
• Health Insurance Reform Enthusiast
• Creatinine-level Checking Creative
• Medical System Subverter
• Bruh They’re a Totally Sick Designer
• Mario’s Brother Appreciator

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-arthralgia-and-arthritis-and-a-poll/

#art #arthralgia #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #eds #heds #hsd #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrum #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #osteoarthritis #pwLC #pwme #spondylitis #symptom #symptomVisualization #symptomtracking

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis

I need to pick a “job title” to describe the work I do here. I initially tried to make a poll with a plug in, but alas it didn’t work the way I hoped.

Here are some of the options I’m considering. Feel free to reply/comment with any or suggest your own!:

• Health & Care Advocacy Designer
• Mast Cell Artist Syndrome
• Chronically ill-ustrating Health Advocacy
• Plague Artist

Rejected (not great for professional use) options that I’ll share with you because I love you, but don’t tell my PCP about any of these, k?

• Notorious Self-Diagnoser
• Health Insurance Reform Enthusiast
• Creatinine-level Checking Creative
• Medical System Subverter
• Bruh They’re a Totally Sick Designer
• Mario’s Brother Appreciator

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-arthralgia-and-arthritis-and-a-poll/

#art #arthralgia #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #eds #heds #hsd #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrum #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #osteoarthritis #pwLC #pwme #spondylitis #symptom #symptomVisualization #symptomtracking

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis

I need to pick a “job title” to describe the work I do here. I initially tried to make a poll with a plug in, but alas it didn’t work the way I hoped.

Here are some of the options I’m considering. Feel free to reply/comment with any or suggest your own!:

• Health & Care Advocacy Designer
• Mast Cell Artist Syndrome
• Chronically ill-ustrating Health Advocacy
• Plague Artist

Rejected (not great for professional use) options that I’ll share with you because I love you, but don’t tell my PCP about any of these, k?

• Notorious Self-Diagnoser
• Health Insurance Reform Enthusiast
• Creatinine-level Checking Creative
• Medical System Subverter
• Bruh They’re a Totally Sick Designer
• Mario’s Brother Appreciator

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-arthralgia-and-arthritis-and-a-poll/

#art #arthralgia #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #eds #heds #hsd #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrum #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #osteoarthritis #pwLC #pwme #spondylitis #symptom #symptomVisualization #symptomtracking

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis

I need to pick a “job title” to describe the work I do here. I initially tried to make a poll with a plug in, but alas it didn’t work the way I hoped.

Here are some of the options I’m considering. Feel free to reply/comment with any or suggest your own!:

• Health & Care Advocacy Designer
• Mast Cell Artist Syndrome
• Chronically ill-ustrating Health Advocacy
• Plague Artist

Rejected (not great for professional use) options that I’ll share with you because I love you, but don’t tell my PCP about any of these, k?

• Notorious Self-Diagnoser
• Health Insurance Reform Enthusiast
• Creatinine-level Checking Creative
• Medical System Subverter
• Bruh They’re a Totally Sick Designer
• Mario’s Brother Appreciator

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-arthralgia-and-arthritis-and-a-poll/

#art #arthralgia #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #eds #heds #hsd #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrum #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #osteoarthritis #pwLC #pwme #spondylitis #symptom #symptomVisualization #symptomtracking

Symptom: Arthralgia and Arthritis

Rejected (not great for professional use) options that I’ll share with you because I love you but don’t tell my PCP about any of these, k?

• Notorious Self-Diagnoser
• Health Insurance Reform Enthusiast
• Creatinine-level Checking Creative
• Medical System Subverter
• Bruh They’re a Totally Sick Designer
• Mario’s Brother Appreciator

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-arthralgia-and-arthritis-and-a-poll/

#art #arthralgia #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #eds #heds #hsd #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrum #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastcell #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #osteoarthritis #pwLC #pwme #spondylitis #symptom #symptomVisualization #symptomtracking

2025-8-9 Is this MCAS anaphylaxis, anxiety, or anaphylaxis from anxiety?

I almost didn’t want to share this one, because I’m in a bit of a nervous state, and I was worried about the people who think people with Long Covid are psychological malingerers, etc. When I had to leave work, and filed for US Social Security Disability, I kept my Generalized Anxiety Disorder out of my initial application, afraid of getting the dreaded “just anxiety,” dismissal that many complex chronic illness kin are familiar with. (I was later told this was a bad move, and to definitely include all mental health and neurodivergence things, which I did for the ongoing process.)

Even as I’m having less anaphylaxis risk, it’s taking time to recover psychologically. I told my therapist how I felt like I backslid over a decade in mental health work overnight from the first recent anaphylaxis episode. She kindly said that while I might feel as scared and threatened as I often did back then, that the trigger was different. I was not feeling that anxious about an email, I was feeling that way about a literal life and death situation, one which I still don’t fully understand the triggers of.

A decade ago, de-stigmatizing mental healthcare was really important to me too. Now, I’m especially aware of how much these issues intersect, so heck yeah, publishing the medical art about anxiety.

Lastly, I wanted to include few examples of the ways in which these issues intersect. These are absolutely the tip of the iceberg.

• Mast Cell Activation Snydrome (often MCAS for space, in my art) can trigger so, so many pyschological symptoms. Mast Attack has a great overview of the topic, and while I haven’t been able to read the study fully because of the severe brain fog, Prevalence and treatment response of neuropsychiatric disorders in mast cell activation syndrome caught my eye.

• Anaphylaxis, or near anaphylaxis, has many symptoms in common with anxiety, from chest tightness to clammy skin, and “a feeling of impending doom”. While MCAS is not allergies, All Things Allergies has an easy intro to anxiety & anaphylaxis, and here’s a study The impact of anaphylaxis on the quality of life and mental health of adults.

• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome co-occurs with many mental health issues, and I really appreciate how this article lists suspected mechanisms, misattributions, and related factors.

• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS, is a form of autonomic dysfuntction (when things your body normally does automatically stop behaving normally), and is a part of my Long Covid. It involves a high heart rate, and often symptoms like room spinning or lightheadedness, trembling or shaking, shortness of breath, and poor bloodflow. POTS is often misdiagnosed as anxiety, and The Disabled Ginger wrote about it here.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Moreover, there is a peculiarly modern predilection for psychological explanations of a disease, as of everything else. Psychologizing seems to provide control over the experiences and events (like grave illnesses) over which people have in fact little or no control. Psychological understanding undermines the ‘reality’ of a disease. That reality has to be explained.

Susan Sontag, illness as metaphor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), p. 55.

p.s. mental health is physical health and physical health is mental health. you got a literal brain in your body and all of your body is involved in everything that you do. please take care of yourselves and each other. <3

https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-9-is-this-mcas-anaphylaxis/

#allergy #anaphylaxis #anxiety #art #autoimmune #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #chronicIllness #gad #generalizedAnxiety #immune #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mcas #medart #medblog #medicalArt #medwriting #mentalHealth #MillionsMissing #pwLC #pwme #SciArt #sciblog #sciwriting #symptom

[en] Children's screen time: when is it problematic?

"For those who don’t [have skills to regulate their own use of #technology] ... #problematic #internet use is almost universally a #symptom of an underlying #mental health condition or #neurodivergence, typically #depression, social #anxiety, #autism, or #ADHD ..."

"We see the better analogy as #binge-eating #disorder, which is the most prevalent eating disorder."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/how-young-is-too-young-no-such-thing-apparently/

#internetuse #mentalhealth #child #children #screentime #bingeeating #harvard
#ResearchHighlights

I decided to read the full #symptom list for #adhd. I have been #diagnosed since childhood, and tried some treatments, but the side effects were always too severe as I am allergic or sensitive to EVERYTHING. #Therapy and behavioral help is what helped me most in that way.

I realized I'd never actually read all the symptoms.

Then laughed when I thought "I feel personally attacked. I'm the guy they point to when they need an obvious example,".

#humor #writing #health #goodmorning #mentalhealth

you ever just... feel super gd gross despite doing (nigh) everything right?

Like, except exercise, I did the food, hydration, meds, even salt and blood sugar, more water -- I fucked up the timing on some of these so I just get to Feel Like Dogshit for a few hours, in repentance.

But generally, as best I could / can be expected, and just need to be propelled through it by the velocity of time.

#spoonie #SpoonieLife #nausea #symptom #SxMgmt #SymptomManagement #gross #ew #ow

From A Clinical Introduction to Freud, by Bruce Fink loc 4298:

Something is a symptom and potentially accessible to analytic treatment only when it is the patient him- or herself who complains of it and considers it to be problematic, not when those around the patient do. Analysts have no business telling patients what they think is symptomatic in their patients’ behavior; they should instead allow patients to formulate what they themselves find problematic in their lives.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/11/10/a-symptom-isnt-a-symptom-until-its-reflexively-recognised-as-such-by-the-analysand/

#BruceFink #psychoanalysis #reflexivity #symptom

Erschöpfung ist für mich das ätzendeste Symptom bei ADHS & PTBS.

#erschöpfung #müdigkeit #adhs #ptbs #symptom #cat #selfcare #selflove https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9FBubLNhef/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#Hinweis auf #Geschichte des #Strafrecht​s: Das #Strafrecht interessiere sich seit Jürgen #Bartsch dafür, aus welchen #persönlich​en #Disposition​en heraus eine #Tat geschieht;

-> Welcher #Umstand kann #Kriminalität #befordern?
-> Wann sind #Verbrechen #Symptom #seelisch​er #Krankheit?

#Verbrechensaufbau
#Schuld; #Schuldfähigkeit; #Entschuldigungsgrund;

#Kirmesmörder
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Bartsch

#SZ, 26.03.2022, #Meinung, S.5, Heribert #Prantl - #Mensch, #Monster

#Wissenschaft als #Möglichkeit der #Verwirklichung eines #Traum​es.

Das #Klagen über #Unzufriedenheit und die #Forderung nach #Rechte​n als #Symptom des #Wunsch​es nach #Umtausch von #Bedingungen in solche, die durch die #Bedingung des #Antizipieren der #Möglichkeit von #Gefahr #bestimmt sind.

#Politik; #VitaActiva; #Condition #humaine

Hannah #Arendt, #Vita #Activa oder vom #tätig​en #Leben, S. 7-10

Die #Unterscheidung zwischen #empirisch und #transzendental als eine #Perspektive, die die auf #Ebene von #Was-#Frage​n #selbstverständlich​e #Negation eines #transzendental​en #Vermeidungsirrtum​s als #schizoid #symptom​atisiert.

#Befreiend​es #Erlebnis der #schrankenlos​en #Beziehungsmöglichkeit zwischen #Mensch und #Umwelt.

#AbyWarburg #Perspektivität #Identität

Aby #Warburg - #Schlangenritual, ein #Reisebericht, S.12 f.