A Hard Topic
Jan 30, 2024
Original description:
If you were curious as to how bad it is, I felt like I needed to ask permission to post this despite it being my own experience/opinion.
Transcript (part 1):
Dec 21, 2019
So I've been thinking a lot about mental illness in media...
a brain I guess
Specifically mine
I kinda find it stressful deciding how 'overt' I can make my characters (side note: this is referring to Orion the character in my story not literally me)
I have X mental illness
*behaves in stereotypic manor for X mental illness*
*has symptoms*
Despite them being representations of myself.
Particularly when it coems to the more stigmatized ones...
Unnatural
Scary
FAKE
These boxes make no sense!
So often people say things like...
You're 'glorifying mental illness! (I am allowed to depict my life as is?? You don't get to tell me how I experience life???)
Fake!! You're faking!!! (My Therapist and Psychiatrist would tell you otherwise...)
That's not even a real thing! (It's in the DSM... and well studied/documented?)
[X mental illness] isn't like that I know someone/my friend's cousin's neighbor's girlfriend's kid has it and they aren't like you. (Hint: having the same diagnosis doesn't make you have identical brains or even symptoms)
*digs up shitty things the artist did as a literal child*: See! This person is evil! They are bad rep for the community! (I assure you I also disapprove of some thoughts and actions I made when I was like, 9 years old, people can and often DO grow out of shitty behavior/thinking...)
*Compares artist to actively shitty people with X mental illness* (Why do people just assume people who have the same illness are some kind of hive mind? That's not how this works!)
Media or not...
And that bleeds into real world denial...
I don't need to write about it Im probably faking for attention any way
Alters *in unison*: Not this AGAIN!
[due to character limitations the remaining transcript should be in the comments section]
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Transcript (Part2):
And least we forget...
This!
The worst comments
-But you seem normal
-But you function well
-Everyone is a little X mental illness
-If you had X mental illness I would know
-X mental illness isn't even real
-Asks invasive questions without prompt or permission
Because this has been an ordeal...
Good overall mental health
Therapy Good coping skills practice accommodation Time acceptance Support
And now, right now I've broken through my current depressive episode.
good overall mental health
you can be happy, healthy + 'normal' seeming with mental illness.
You can even enjoy parts of it when you are healthy.
My brain thinks differently than others and that's amazing.
And I'm feeling great.
Accepting mental illness can be like grief...
Bargaining (maybe I have y mental illness instead of X illness Im not 'that' bad -also denial)
Denial (most common)
Depression ( your expected to feel this but also 'get over it')
Anger(people will hate you for feeling it)
But for some reason people don't like the 'acceptance' part
Acceptance - improved quality of LIFE Good overall mental health
Fake glorifying disgusting unrealistic
I feel like that pushes people back to denial
Im normal Im Faking I only think I'm doing well
Good overall mental health see ya!
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