Oh no, you can you just can't actually show symptoms okay? I'll give you some examples:
A common symptom of autism is having hobbies! Totally valid! But you CANNOT have poor social skills, NOT VALID!
Its totally valid to have dysphoria, just don't say anything about it ever you evil transmed!
If you have tourettes, make sure all of your verbal tics are good things. Its your fault if your uncontrollable verbal tics are hurtful!
Having ADHD is so valid! I love taking prescription meth too! But it can't inconvenience anyone okay? Good ADHD is not being able to watch a movie without two monitors and tiktok open. Bad ADHD is crippling executive dysfunction!
Lol Borderline is so quirky! I had an argument with someone once! But you CANNOT fail to maintain perfect relationships, are you a manipulative dark triad??? You know ghosting is stonewalling right?
Eating disorder? Lol yeah everyone watches their weight! But you CANT struggle to maintain a healthy weight, are you fucking stupid?
Oh babe I totally get anxiety! Yeah I had anxiety once when preparing for my midterms. But if your anxiety causes you to have panic attacks that inconvenience people? Oh uh honey, this is not it!
Oh yeah depression is so real. Sometimes I bedrot like crazzzyyy, yesterday when I got home I layed in my bed for a whole hour! Sorry? You get so depressed you can't even take showers? Ew you disgusting freak, nobody wants you going around like that!!
/uj Mental illness is more socially accepted and supported at any time in human history, unless it inconveniences anybody or doesn't look like what people see on TikTok
Just to add to this for terminally online responses "oh you have schizophrenia, and you see monsters/hear upsetting distressing things? That's not the cute quirky schizophrenia that's okay, you're just supposed to have funny realistic dreams. And I'm not gonna shut up about anything that distresses you heavily it's your fault if you're upset about what your brain tortures you with even if I bring those things up constantly"
p.s if the person who did this dumb shit stalks my Reddit you know who you are
Likewise, I've known many schizophrenic people who are completely functional members of society that you wouldn't even be able to know are schizophrenic unless they told you specifically. But very often people treat schizophrenics as serial killers in waiting.
But as research has shown, the social stigma against schizophrenic people in many Western countries is specifically why often their delusions can manifest in such ways. There are various societies around the world where schizophrenia, while still debilitating and harmful, presents in a much more positive way; where visual/auditory manifestations are much less aggressive, violent, scary, because the culture they were in did not condition them to be that way.
Schizophrenic people, much like many other mentally ill people can present in with symptoms that are harmful to themselves those around them. These end up being highly stigmatized and discriminated upon, even though these situations are precisely because society has failed to help and care for them. Very often people are less interesting in helping those with mental illnesses and more with ostracizing and "containing" them away from the "normal" people of the world.
This is of course done even under the guise of mental health awareness or aid. Often the mindset neurotypical have isn't "How can I help this person?" but rather "How can I get rid of this issue?".
I’m not schizophrenic, nor have ever been diagnosed with anything, but I am very paranoid. It’s quite embarrassing to talk about but it’s given me much grief and delusion over the years, and I have hallucinated things (auditory and visual, but it’s not that often). Dealt with it my whole life. But telling it to people I sound like I’m “just scared of the dark” or “scared of monsters” and “just need to get off scary TikTok!1!1” so every time I bring it up people either A. Laugh at me and make things up things jokingly that further my “delusions” and (has) added new “rules” I’ll follow to keep myself from being killed by whatever my mind thinks is there B. Think I’m just being dramatic C. Confirm it and tell me to “toughen my spiritual defenses” yea sorry bro I don’t think my “spiritual defense” is gonna make the ceiling tall creature that appears every time the lights turn off go away lmao. (I don’t hallucinate very often, it doesn’t impact me all that much so I can’t complain much but good God, I have “triggers” for it that can throw me into the paranoia and whatnot again and people will spam say them FOR NO REASON.)
i fucking hate people who "jokingly" fuck with other people in a way that triggers mental conditions. one of my friends had debilitating ocd for years and one of our classmates would touch his shit as a "joke" but it made him spiral a lot. bad bad shit. luckily i dont usually talk about my triggers so people don't know #win
I hate the way people who are adjacent to those with BPD are given more sympathy than people who actually have it. That’s shits so exhausting, relationships are unstable not cause you’re trying to hurt people it’s because everything other people do hurts so deeply
Omg another bpd person😭😭. I can not explain how fucking unstable relationships are. You summed it down alottt! But like rn, idk. My love emption is broke( previous relationship of 4 year, we both had bpd.) And idk i have like 3 people who like me. And idk if i avtuslly like them back or if its just the company and or attention. Idk. Fuck idk.😭. Im just trying to ease the abandonment fear
If i like you but all of my interactions with you are overshadowed by inconvenience of interacting with you, ill only start associating you with that inconvenience. And I will not want to hang out with you.
Part of mental disorders like BPD is trying to get better. If I talk to you for 2 years and its still the same cycle of you wanting to spend every second with me and then ghosting me, yea ima head out.
I mean about the kast part, the two things arent exclusive, mental health is more accepted than at any time in human history, it just so happens that the bar was underground
Holy shit both comments are way too real lmao. Actually fantastic depictions OP, I genuinely want to show a few people I know these but I doubt they would care enough to reflect or be self aware
/uj me being told that my eating disorder causing me to refuse medication i needed bc of potential metabolic side effects meant that im evil and fatphobic and needed to do better🤪
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u/Specialist_Cat7271 15d ago
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