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Re: Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

i'm pretty sure 90% of the people who claim mental illness are just full of shit anyway and looking for asspats and cozies

i've been in this hobby over a decade without telling anyone once about my own struggles and i've heard stories here and elsewhere about others who do the same. it's kind of telling to me that everyone who claims mental illness publicly inevitably does it in a space like plurk or tumblr where they can get maximum asspats out of it and play oppression olympics with their fellow primadonnas

Re: Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

do you want a fucking medal for ~suffering in silence~

talking about your mental illness does not mean you don't have it, wtf. "every instance of this i see is in a public place!" yes...because you only see public places...where else would they talk about it that you'd know about?

Re: Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

no, i want people like you to stop fishing for asspats and cozies

if you really have mental illness, you're not going to reduce it to a fucking oppression card. people who do that trivialize it, and invariably they're always lining up for spots in the oppression olympics

DA

[(Anonymous)]

So literally anyone talking openly about their mental illness is... Reducing it to an oppression card for you?

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

when you do it on a public space where you're guaranteed to be petted and coddled by mindless sycophants, yes

especially when that public space is tumblr where everything boils down some kind of -ism at the end of the day

dda

[(Anonymous)]

I see narcissism is a symptom of your own mental illness.

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

yes because having the dignity to keep one's private issues private is the very definition of the word

projecting much are we?

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

narcissism does not manifest exclusively as attention-seeking behavior, but rather its purest essence is promotion of the self over all other things

because people don't cope with mental illness the way YOU do they are all therefore either charlatans/frauds or shallow ass-pat seekers, unlike you, of course, who nobly suffer in silence so as not to dirty yourself with something so petty and base ass seeking comfort from others.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

So basically you're either a troll or you're jealous that some people are comfortable and cope by talking things out instead of suffering by themselves because of stupid pride.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

that's just you rewording being an emotional parasite into something acceptable

you're a leech that feeds off everyone around you and all your "friends" would be better off with you dead

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

guys, we've established this person is a narcissist. what do we think we're accomplishing by trying to engage them? let's just stop giving them the attention they so desperately need

Re: Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

Me talking about my mental illness isn't fishing for anything, and if people want to pat my ass, that's on them. If I talk about it it's to outline how fucking hard life is because it sucks and please don't pretend and shit like that.

Silence caused me to suffer. This way, I can find people who are similar, we can share coping mechanisms and we can deal with life instead of feeling isolated and stuff like that.

Suffering in silence doesn't make you a martyr or better, it just means you're suffering largely alone.

Re: Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

just admit you want your ass patted, idc beyond a basic human disgust but don't try to pretend you're doing anything noble

i'd rather suffer alone for a thousand years than be a scumbag manipulator feeding off of people's ableism guilt and pity like you

da

[(Anonymous)]

look at this edgelord here

honestly, while i don't talk about my problems on plurk because i get uncomfortable when people try to comfort me, i don't mind the people who do or think that it's somehow wrong of them to ask for support.

there are ways in which it can be manipulative, such as someone who uses depression or anxiety as a reason that they can never be criticized for anything or a reason that they shouldn't be expected to perform basic necessary tasks.

but there is nothing manipulative about "man, guys, I feel like shit right now. Does anybody have cute animal pictures?"

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

> edgelord

tumblr would be that way, primadonna

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Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

i was going to say "don't cut yourself on that edge" but it seemed a little too tone deaf for a mental illness thread

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

i was going to say "hang yourself in your closet" but it seemed a little unsporting for a thread filled to the brim with tumblrinas

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

no one's talking about "man guys i feel like shit right now". try to keep up

we're talking about people who are like "oh my life is soooooooooooooo hard i have bipolar and autism and no one understands me! ps having trouble paying bills, donations welcome!"

if you think those people are looking to just be "cheered up" i'd like you to turn around and follow the river you came from back out of egypt

dda

[(Anonymous)]

rereading the thread, and maybe I missed something, but nobody mentioned asking for donations until you, just now.

Re: dda

[(Anonymous)]

now you're just quibbling

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

No one mentioned any of this, they were literally saying that any mention of mental illness openly is attention-seeking. Even a "sorry guys, gonna take a break because badbrain is being stupid."

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

uh, ok, i see you moving those goalposts there

a whole lot of shit in this thread actually is people talking about how anyone who mentions their mental illnesses at all is a manipulative jackass.

most of the mental illness mentions that i see on my plurk are of the "having a bad brain day send cute animal pics" variety, not the "my life is soooooo hard because [laundry list of diagnoses] pity me and send money" variety.

i am skeptical of the latter but the former doesn't deserve to be lumped in with them.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

> moving those goalposts

i see my milkshake brought all the tumblrinas to the yard to play everyone's second-favorite internet game, oppression olympics!

Re: Confessions

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who works in the inpatient psych unit at the hospital? Honestly, who cares if they're getting ass pats and cozies. That's part of their support network, that's good. It's easy to be an outsider and say "oh they just want attention/ass pats", and yeah some people may use it as a crutch, but honestly, I personally never seen it become a totally negative thing. Most of my work is trying to get the patients I see to just tell me what they are feeling and actually talk. A lot of them are so depressed that they won't say anything, they're literally stuck in their own heads.

Idk, Maybe you should try telling your friends and reaching out to more people with what you're going through. Get those ass pats and cozies. It could be more helpful, and there's nothing wrong with reaching out for comfort when you need it.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

i do think venting is healthy but i think i just have compassion fatigue on top of my own shit