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Magdalene❤️‍🔥

@spectaculaurthoughts

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🇯🇲 biologist & psycho-spiritual practitioner
❤️‍🩹 psych survivor
🌱decolonizing mental health for individual and environmental wellness

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The psychiatric system tends to take individuals’ autonomy and agency from them when they experience mental health crises. This causes many people to leave the psych ward more traumatized than they were before. However, if a person has a support system that’s willing to accommodate their needs while they’re in crisis, it’s important to create an anti-carceral crisis intervention plan that will be shared with each member of the system. This will lessen the chance of them experiencing carceral “care” that will do them more harm than good in the long run.

There are more loving ways of handling mental health emergencies—we just have to care enough about each other to learn how we can do things differently.

If you’d like to purchase a guide to help you create an anti-carceral crisis intervention plan, visit my store spectaculaurthoughts.com/store (link in bio)!

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #decolonizetherapy #psychabolition by @spectaculaurthoughts

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In the Mad Liberation space, Laurel is a brilliant, creative, provocative, and compassionate light. She traverses paradox and paradigms: from Jehovah’s Witness to psychosis endurer, now spiritually awakened scientist, witch and healer. Her words have kept me company through my darkest moments and her dry humor kills me. Read and listen to this week’s dispatch of @theradicalbaddie for an intimate portrait of @spectaculaurthoughts 🐍🔬🧪🌎👽🛸✨ by @spectaculaurthoughts

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Community care and support is medicine. Co-creating a new paradigm includes taking small steps in the right direction — away from individualism and towards community care.

If you’d like to feel a sense of belonging with neurodivergent folk, join the Catharsis community!

(Link in bio)

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthmatters #decolonizetherapy #communitycare by @spectaculaurthoughts

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Suicidality is shamed and pathologized within our society, but it is objectively an understandable response to the harsh conditions we are and have been collectively enduring.

If you’re a sensitive person who is worried about the path our species is currently on and thoughts of suicide are bringing you comfort during this time of societal collapse, come to the “Embracing Suicidality as a Protective Part” Creative Writing Workshop to learn how developing a better relationship with your suicidal part can help you to contribute to our collective liberation.

The session will be held this Saturday, October 17th and it’s the perfect workshop for you to attend if you’re just starting, or have been on your decolonizing journey. 🌱

Check out the link in my bio to register, or visit:

tinyurl.com/protectivepart

If you’d like to attend but can’t afford the minimum sliding scale amount, please email laur@spectaculaurthoughts.com

Registration closes Friday at noon ET! by @spectaculaurthoughts

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A lot of the distress you feel around suicidal ideation comes from the psychological conflict created by experiencing peace from it while feeling ashamed that you’re supposedly mentally ill for using this coping mechanism to survive.

If you’d like to learn how you can start embracing your suicidal part so that you can simultaneously experience more peace within your body-mind and challenge the oppressive systems that have contributed to your mental distress, sign up for the “Embracing Suicidality as a Protective Part” Creative Writing Workshop! It’ll be held **this** Saturday, October 17th at 1PM ET.

We’ll be talking about how viewing your suicidal part as a protector can help you not only survive, but take your power back from oppressive systems that contribute to our and our planet’s unwellness. We’ll also be doing a creative writing exercise to help you show your protective part some love and open yourself to their wisdom and guidance.

Check out the link in my bio for more info, or visit:
tinyurl.com/protectivepart

#mentalhealth #depression #decolonizetherapy by @spectaculaurthoughts

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If fantasies of death allow you to feel a measure of peace, why not view your suicidal part as a protector that’s trying to shield you from the fullest extent of your pain? ❤️‍🩹

If you’d like to get a chance to speak about suicidality in a space where it isn’t shamed or pathologized, and to learn how you can embrace your suicidal part as a means of contributing to our collective liberation, sign up for the “Embracing Suicidality as a Protective Part” Creative Writing Workshop. It’ll be held on Saturday, October 17th at 1PM ET.

We’ll be talking about how viewing your suicidal part as a protector can help you not only survive, but take your power back from oppressive systems that contribute to our and our planet’s unwellness. We’ll also be doing a creative writing exercise to help you show your protective part some love and open yourself to their wisdom and guidance.

Check out the link in my bio for more info, or visit:
tinyurl.com/protectivepart

Also…don’t you think my little suicidal guy is a stunning work of art? :’) by @spectaculaurthoughts

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September is coming to an end, so the conversations surrounding suicidality and suicide prevention might die down.

Not over here though—we’re always talking about suicide over here 🙃

If you’d like to get a chance to speak about suicidality in a space where it isn’t shamed or pathologized, and to learn how you can embrace your suicidal part as a means of contributing to our collective liberation, sign up for the “Embracing Suicidality as a Protective Part” Creative Writing Workshop. It’ll be held on Saturday, October 17th at 1PM ET.

Check out the link in my bio to register, or visit:

tinyurl.com/protectivepart

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #suicideprevention #suicideawareness #decolonizetherapy by @spectaculaurthoughts

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You’re not powerless—you’ve been disempowered. Embracing your suicidal part as a survival aid can help you reclaim your power.

Check out my newest Substack essay: Suicidal Ideation as a Protective Part - Depathologizing Suicidal Ideation as a Means of Unlearning Helplessness.

If you’d like to take part in a creative writing exercise to build a better relationship with your suicidal part, register for my virtual shadow work workshop on Saturday, October 17th at 1PM. (It will be recorded and all registrants will receive the recording).

Check out the link in my bio to register, or visit:

tinyurl.com/protectivepart

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #suicideprevention #suicideawareness #decolonizetherapy by @spectaculaurthoughts

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I facilitated a shorter version of this workshop, “Embracing Suicidality as a Protective Part” earlier this year at the Neurodivergent Lived Experience Summit but I’ve since added more information, discussion prompts, and a creative writing exercise that will help you to integrate the information!

It’ll be held on Saturday, October 17th and it’s the perfect workshop for you to attend if you’re just starting your decolonizing journey. You’ll learn how to begin freeing yourself from colonial conditioning by depathologizing suicidality, and how this is an important contribution to our collective liberation 🌱

Check out the link in my bio to register, or visit:

tinyurl.com/protectivepart

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #suicideprevention #suicideawareness #decolonizetherapy by @spectaculaurthoughts

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The most important people you need to be listening to on matters regarding suicide and suicide prevention are people who experience suicidal ideation.

(I do feel like I should mention that the person on slide 10 isn’t actively suicidal, they’re just understandably angry and frustrated by coercive suicide prevention tactics)

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #depression #suicideprevention #suicidepreventionawareness by @spectaculaurthoughts

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Coercion isn’t care.

#suicidepreventionawareness #suicideawareness #mentalhealth by @spectaculaurthoughts

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I’m excited to share my first Substack post with you! 🥳

Now I can share more in-depth thoughts on how we can depathologize suicidality and other mental health conditions as a means of unlearning helplessness and using our personal power to change things on this planet 🌍

Comment “SAVED” if you want me to DM you the link to my essay: “Can the Idea of Death Save us?” or find the link in my bio!

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#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #depression #suicideprevention #suicidepreventionawareness by @spectaculaurthoughts

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