So the 3 main areas of increased crime are child offenders, domestic violence and shop stealing.

We also know that mental health has declined since the pandemic began. Anxiety over the virus & lockdowns have since been replaced by growing anxiety over climate change, wars in Ukraine & Israel (and in Sudan, but hey, that involves black people in Africa so we don’t hear about that), and now the fascist takeover of a superpower. Oh, and most Australians rejected the notion of Indigenous Australians having a Voice.

This is not a law and order crisis. It is a mental health crisis. When social stability breaks down, aggravated by cost of living pressure, some people crack. Yes, we have to address toxic masculinity, but when that flares up worse than usual, we need to ask ourselves why. And when children act out badly, we need to ask ourselves why. Expecting adolescents to mend their ways while society offers little reason for hope in their corner of the world is both cruel and pointless.

#MentalHealth #Crime

Six graphs reveal the true state of crime in Victoria and who’s behind it https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/21/six-graphs-reveal-the-true-state-of-in-victoria-and-whos-behind-it?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

You should really think twice about taking #Antipsychotic drugs unless you ABSOLUTELY need them.

Recent studies have shown that they caused brain damage, due to oxidative stress put on the brain by messing with dopamine, reducing gray matter, or otherwise, neurons for those unsure about what that means.

They caused ME brain and nerve damage in about six years of misdiagnosis.

Turns out many disorders aren't degenerative. It was being caused by the drugs themselves.

Dispatch from the inside: A prisoner in solitary watches as guards use Tasers on a naked, mentally-ill woman in a shower, and reflects on their increasingly brutal use in the #Texas correctional system.
https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/

Schizoid PD vs. Autism - Neurodivergent Insights
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/schizoid-personality-disorder-vs-autism/

@schizoid @neurodiversity @actuallyautistic

Evening, Twters.

Genuinely having a tough time of it. House hunting is not going well, though we've 3 more viewings lined up for tomorrow.

The news about #pip is terrifying - PIP makes up about 33% of my income so losing it will be devastating, and there's not a lot I can do about it as my condition fluctuates. I'm having a really tough day during a really tough time, and I'm about ready to crawl into bed and not emerge again til it's all better.

#MentalHealth #Psychology

Because every thought is real, everything a person experiences is real. However, some things are more real than other things. It's mentally healthier to develop concepts based on subjective & objective reality.

A spoon is a real object (objective reality)

We are the subjective, & objective, observers of the spoon. The spoon (object) is not in our minds, our mind (electrical & chemical) develops a subjective model of the spoon (e.g., via our sense of vision)

From: blenderdumbass . org

With all the progress that has been done with liberating the digital space there is a sense of self defeating, depression. A kind of defense mechanism of sorts. As if the people settled for something and gave up trying to do anything else. Which in itself causing lack of morale, lack of vision, and with i...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_incels_of_computing:_the_depressive_defense_mechanisms_of_free_software