MDDG | PHILOSIREN

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JOIN THE MOMENT

I’m not a
or a class-A- but whatever went through my head was surreal.

Psychologist

HIPPY

PTSD and psychosis can look identical from the outside..

Racing thoughts or hypervigilance? Call it paranoia. Flashbacks replaying with different characters? Call it a hallucination.

This is a space where one girl (me) challenges the clinical, spiritual, and poetic perspectives against her own lived experience: as fact, truth, and evidence.

GET IN, Loser.

we're liberating.

Clinical guidance now (as of 2020 in the USA) says anyone showing psychotic symptoms should first be screened for trauma, because getting this wrong means getting the treatment wrong too.

Where does that leave anyone labeled before then?

Answer: still on the streets, still on disability, still on medicaid, and still being mistreated by both medical health professionals and policies that said, "you're broken, incoherent, misunderstood, and will never recover but can pay me to manage your symptoms we placed on you," instead of: "we're so sorry that happened to you, we're gonna get you real help and real justice."

We’re praised for being “the chill girl” or “not like other girls,” making everyone else the problem, not culture.

We’re fed beauty, body, and success standards that make another woman’s win feel like our loss.

We’re warned about “mean girls” and "guys girls" more than we’re warned about unsafe men, so we learn to fear each other more than we fear harm or another woman's harm.

We’re encouraged to judge mothers, childfree women, single women, and partnered women instead of seeing each path as equally valid and something to learn from.
That the "other woman" is your competition– instead of an embodied, co-conspirator.

That your anger makes you "crazy"– instead of honest, oppressed, and awake.

That you have to shrink your needs, desires, or boundaries to be lovable or wanted.

That you're not connected or aware of your body, strength, and abilities.

That you're moody, disregulated, and unorganized because of your period.
Seeing other women as mirrors—if someone triggers us, it might be showing us where we're still growing.

Letting jealousy become a clue ("I can achieve that also") instead of a reason to minimize.

Naming harm clearly while still holding faith that ourselves and others can grow, repair, and change.

Forgiveness to ourselves, each other, and others in our lives (a.k.a. freedom through self-resolution).

Celebrating emotional ranges, connection, and communication.

Asking, answering, and sharing our answers with each other. Holding the knowledge that those answers are subject to move and change like our periods!
A feeling of togetherness and empowerment you can take home with you (and your earrings!).

A language for calling in sisters instead of calling them out.

More trust in your own voice, and in other women’s stories.

A felt sense that we don’t have to be the same to stand on the same side.

A tangible way to connect with yourself and others through the symbolism of our creations.