Lisa Wallace
@rwillowfish.bsky.social
I talk about my own mental illness treatment and psychiatrists and psychotherapy.
I post my art, which is nicely odd and deep and poorly planned out, which is its greatest strength.
I post my art, which is nicely odd and deep and poorly planned out, which is its greatest strength.
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Lisa Wallace
@rwillowfish.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I've been in & out of psych treatment for over 4 decades. Mostly it was chaotic, leaving me very unstable & then I swore off it. But, I still have bipolar. So I'm back, on my terms.
Want to know more about my "Travels Through Psychiatry"? Here's my blog: rwillowfish.blogspot.com
Want to know more about my "Travels Through Psychiatry"? Here's my blog: rwillowfish.blogspot.com
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.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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.
DBT: Your feelings are wrong.
CBT: Your thinking is wrong.
CBT: Your thinking is wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
DBT: Your feelings are wrong.
CBT: Your thinking is wrong.
CBT: Your thinking is wrong.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
journal drawing
"Cat, Don't Leave Me Yet"
"Cat, Don't Leave Me Yet"
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
journal drawing
"Cat, Don't Leave Me Yet"
"Cat, Don't Leave Me Yet"
Reposted by Lisa Wallace
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.
Be careful what you wish for.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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.
Be careful what you wish for.
This is what a year of psychotherapy is like.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is what a year of psychotherapy is like.
journal drawing
"Feeling is the Meaning"
"Feeling is the Meaning"
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
journal drawing
"Feeling is the Meaning"
"Feeling is the Meaning"
coffee space (lime optional)
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
coffee space (lime optional)
Reposted by Lisa Wallace
I love how the antis act like CCHR is a legit organisation, when everyone knows it is an official wing of Scientology.
It’s not even a secret.
www.scientology.org/how-we-help/...
It’s not even a secret.
www.scientology.org/how-we-help/...
Bringing Reform to Mental Health - Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a nonprofit charitable mental health watchdog organization established by the Church of Scientology in 1969, is dedicated to eradicating psychiatric abuses ...
www.scientology.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I love how the antis act like CCHR is a legit organisation, when everyone knows it is an official wing of Scientology.
It’s not even a secret.
www.scientology.org/how-we-help/...
It’s not even a secret.
www.scientology.org/how-we-help/...
Reposted by Lisa Wallace
If Scientology is promoting your work, maybe it’s time to consciously uncouple from these bedfellows.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If Scientology is promoting your work, maybe it’s time to consciously uncouple from these bedfellows.
journal drawing
"Overanalyzing Myself"
"Overanalyzing Myself"
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
journal drawing
"Overanalyzing Myself"
"Overanalyzing Myself"
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Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:
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...
"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...
Sikorav Against the World
A French psychiatrist’s efforts to do right by his patients brought him into conflict with the medical bureaucracy
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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...
"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...
Reposted by Lisa Wallace
Mental illness is all to real to those struggling with it, and to their families.
Don’t accept denial as an answer.
Don’t accept denial as an answer.
Schizophrenia exists.
Mental illness exists.
Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.
Psychotherapy can be life-saving.
Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise.
Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️
Mental illness exists.
Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.
Psychotherapy can be life-saving.
Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise.
Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mental illness is all to real to those struggling with it, and to their families.
Don’t accept denial as an answer.
Don’t accept denial as an answer.
Got a proper haircut at a salon instead of whacking away with scissors at home.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Got a proper haircut at a salon instead of whacking away with scissors at home.
journal drawing
"Sex Dream"
"Sex Dream"
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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"Sex Dream"
"Sex Dream"
The Dance of the Blue Sharks
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The Dance of the Blue Sharks
Oldest selfie on my phone
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Oldest selfie on my phone
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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.
It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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.
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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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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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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"Futile Masking"
"Futile Masking"
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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"Futile Masking"
"Futile Masking"
Some food that thankfully I already had cooked, so just a warming up. Because I feel like crap.
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Some food that thankfully I already had cooked, so just a warming up. Because I feel like crap.
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"Woke with a Start"
"Woke with a Start"
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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"Woke with a Start"
"Woke with a Start"