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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

All of you, whether friends from Twixter or new ones here, have been the best.

Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Did I leave the psych hospital when I shouldn't have? Thank goodness for a therapy appointment later today. Hard to make decisions when mentally unwell.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

One of the last things on Xitter before I deactivated today was a reply where the anonymous acct told me I'm a horrible person. And they added a lecture about my past affiliations w antipsych, how I once sought support there before turning my back. Mostly I don't need others telling me I'm horrible.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

on a psych unit prison pens and paper bags for drawing no door on the bathroom, no showering after 9pm no phone, no coffee, no pajamas (glad it was brief; glad to be back home)

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

journal drawing "Please Reject Me"

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So tired I could barely move and then I fall into my bed and it’s pain here, pain there, mild enough but everywhere I turned. I would cry if I could cry, but instead I get suicidal thoughts.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Asserting that psychiatry is just dumb use of the DSM, reducing everyone and everything to disorders and codes and destroying humanity and all meaning in life, lacks nuance. You can see that, right? I'm not being that funny or overly dramatic in portraying that view.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

DBT: Your feelings are wrong. CBT: Your thinking is wrong.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My goal in psychiatric treatment is stability and in psychotherapy, to not feel so imprisoned within my self. Returning to work isn’t the goal.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

journal drawing "Cat, Don't Leave Me Yet"

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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

When a movement that claims they are in favour of informed consent and against coercive treatment find themselves in a carnal relationship with MAHA/MAGA, things can get awkward. Be careful what you wish for.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This is what a year of psychotherapy is like.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

journal drawing "Feeling is the Meaning"

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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

If Scientology is promoting your work, maybe it’s time to consciously uncouple from these bedfellows.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

journal drawing "Overanalyzing Myself"

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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

SSRIs aren't the worst! I also laugh at the notion. "He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth." Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters. Sikorav Against the World www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...

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Sikorav Against the World

A French psychiatrist’s efforts to do right by his patients brought him into conflict with the medical bureaucracy

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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Mental illness is all to real to those struggling with it, and to their families. Don’t accept denial as an answer.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Got a proper haircut at a salon instead of whacking away with scissors at home.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign. It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The transphobic messaging completely failed to help Republicans tonight. The anti-trans propaganda was a losing strategy which the GOP pushed all their chips in on, and it failed miserably. They lost every major race tonight.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Some food that thankfully I already had cooked, so just a warming up. Because I feel like crap.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

journal drawing "Woke with a Start"

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Oh, wow, just realized that 23 years ago today I got clean and sober. Look at those cool cannabis leaf beads strung on my mirror. That was before. Ha! Good ol' days. That's the porch of the house where I lived in Oakland, CA. Smoked a lot of cigarettes out there.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I haven't been her for awhile. If you knew Audrey, unfortunately she died last month. I miss her terribly. That spicy tabby ran this house, and now I do it but I'm boring.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

What is good psychotherapy like for me, you ask? journal drawing: "The Precious and the Edges"

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sometimes my meds cause my blood pressure to drop and I'm dizzy for a period of time. This doesn't happen often. To me, it's a tolerable adverse effect. It's tolerable because my other choice is plunging back down into depression. I wonder what others find to be tolerable adverse effects.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Once again psychology papers and articles making huge leaps. There’s no causality here but it doesn’t stop the authors actively suggesting it. Many psych illnesses are associated with poor sleep and conspiratorial beliefs. It doesn’t mean one causes the other. This conclusion is totally unsupported.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I've found a great outpatient psychiatrist & therapist. Yet, if I need inpatient care, I don't know what I'll get. One hospital is excellent, but if beds aren't available, the other half a dozen choices are awful. It's shameful to be put where you're made worse & we know better & can do better.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I find posts about taking on tRmp & EElon & billionaire influencers in general that are like 'prove them wrong, and show that people power can beat big money, by electing thus & such' so tiring because elected politicians don't do shit. (Just a bit disillusioned here is all.)

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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This, and, as the posted article discusses, while inclusion of PMDD was an important first step, the majority of people with clinically significant effects of their cycle on mental health are excluded from that dx. This needs to be a much broader part of psychiatry/psychology training and practice.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Audrey's appreciating the nice sun.

photo of tabby cat sitting in the sun streaming in on the balcony with a look of bliss on her face

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Jumping around the sofa and out the door - busy afternoon for Audrey

photo of tabby cat between pillows and the sofa arm about to leap out

photo of the same tabby cat outside on the balcony looking in on a very sunny afternoon

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Hard Stories to Tell (38"x 30" acrylic painting) I just finished this painting, a piece I started way back during pandemic quarantine. I've worked on it sporadically, then much more consistently in recent weeks until I said stop, it's done. 🧵of start to finish, if you're interested. 1/4

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This painting is getting near completion.

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