Romanticization of mental illness

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ChuckSlaughter said:
Oh I like that. There is a good sad fucked up story or creepypasta there somewhere
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Hilariously I think many of them do start to believe their own delusions and exhibit the symptoms of the very thing they try to gain sympathy for. But fortunately, none of that actually overwhelms their attention seeking desires, otherwise we wouldn't have so many lolcows on tumblr.
 
What's especially frustrating is people like Kayla/Stray Sheep who post on Tumblr multiple times a day, every day, some variation of "I want attention", "Give me attention", "I need attention right now", and if anyone goes "maybe people are offput by your constant need for attention" she replies "I'm mentally ill."

Like, that is it, that's the be all end all. She is mentally ill and therefore never has to change or improve herself, everyone else has to be nice to her and accept the fact she treats people like garbage, and if they don't, they are ablelist scum and bad people. There have been literally times where she says "If you won't be friends with me because I have (self diagnosed) Borderline Personality Disorder, you're an ableist asshole."

It drives me fucking bonkers.
 
Agreed, if you're lucid enough to recognize you have a problem, then you need to take steps to fix it, or you have no room to complain.
 
Meowthkip said:
Honestly, knowing teenagers and remembering what I was like in my own teenage years, I really don't trust these little snots to have a firm grip on the exact nature of their brain problems.

Especially since there's a lot of them that are simply caused by adolescence itself.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure a lot of them don't know exactly what's wrong with them either. That, and the fact that some tumblrinas are promoting self-diagnosis over seeking professional help messes up a lot of kids even more.

I remember seeing some post where some teenager self-diagnosed with OCD, then decided to seek a professional diagnosis and it turned out they had GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). They were bragging about how they were "pretty close" to the correct diagnosis because they at least got in the ballpark of anxiety but really it's not that impressive to be aware that you have an anxiety problem or something. I'll give them props though for seeking out professional help, but what happened to them doesn't exactly strengthen the case for self-diagnosis being the best diagnosis.
 
Another thing that bothers me about these types of people is because there ARE Tumblr users with genuine mental issues/disorders, and they're not happy with them. I suspect that they would be angry with the self-dxers for their attention-whoring.
 
The ones I loathe are the ones who claim to have PTSD.

I have PTSD. After struggling for years to get help while going in and out of psych wards and clinics, when I finally got my diagnosis, I was horrified. To this day, my family and most of my friends think I'm schizophrenic, because that's easier to explain. When you say you have PTSD, the first thing most people ask is what happened, and that's something I still can't discuss easily. It doesn't help I'm not in the military, and it's often thought as a military only disorder.

PTSD is a bitch. There will be days I'm okay, but more often than not I'm not okay. I'm constantly anxious and fearful. I have all kinds of phobias. I have hallucinations. I take medication that turns me into a zombie, but I'd rather be a zombie than what I was before. When something triggers me, I don't start cry typing about how upset it made me, I have panic attacks. Luckily I don't have that many triggers and I have the sense to avoid them, but when it happens, it turns into a massive ordeal. I've been to the psych ward because of them. My life is very, very difficult because of what happened to me.

But I still have faith that I'll get over this. I see a therapist regularly, and I take my medications every day. Every day, I make myself do something that puts me out of my comfort zone. I know that one day I'll be able to go back to school and go back to work. And it just pisses me off so badly, to see these Tumblr kids act like it's an excuse to sit around inside all day and cry because someone didn't tag something correctly. I don't want anyone to go through what I go through, but I do make an exception for them.
 
I've seen people on tumblr encourage others to straight up lie about their symptoms and manipulate mental health professionals to get a diagnosis. If a qualified person tells you that you probably don't have a certain mental illness and you have to lie to get a diagnosis, you probably don't have that mental illness.
 
Cassowary said:
I remember seeing some post where some teenager self-diagnosed with OCD, then decided to seek a professional diagnosis and it turned out they had GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). They were bragging about how they were "pretty close" to the correct diagnosis because they at least got in the ballpark of anxiety but really it's not that impressive to be aware that you have an anxiety problem or something. I'll give them props though for seeking out professional help, but what happened to them doesn't exactly strengthen the case for self-diagnosis being the best diagnosis.
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The thing with these kinds of mental illnesses/conditions is that so many of them have overlapping symptoms so, assuming a self-dxer actually had something that needed attention, their diagnosis would be super likely to be inaccurate. Even medical professionals have difficulty differentiating them sometimes, which is one of the reasons why there are often medication switches (an ADHD drug could have adverse effects on someone with autism, for example -- a misdiagnosis happening due to the fact that symptoms for both of those conditions involve concentration issues, among other things. And even if the diagnosis is correct and the meds designed for treating x condition are administered, they could still do more harm than good.)
 
TowinKarz said:
Agreed, if you're lucid enough to recognize you have a problem, then you need to take steps to fix it, or you have no room to complain.
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Speaking from first-hand experience, severe social impairments can make it hard to actively pursue help if you don't get a diagnosis when you're still in school. Evaluations are expensive and selective mutism has a bad habit of kicking in during them, making the entire thing a waste of money. I was only able to get help because it fucked up my life so badly that I ended up in a homeless shelter where they recognized the problem and got me some help to get through the interview portions required for government-funded diagnostic evaluations and a case manager who could middle man for me during the actual evaluation.

Maybe I'm overly empathetic because of my own experiences, but I think a lot of them who do have real mental health problems are stuck in a situation where they're aware there's a problem, but don't have the help needed to get help.

Then there are the attention whores who just don't do it because they know there's nothing wrong with them. Those ones can die.
 
Do SJWs slowly become the mask if they pretend to have a certain disorder for long enough? Do they start adapting their own daily behavior to fit the WebMD description of their fake disease?
 
DankMemes said:
Do SJWs slowly become the mask if they pretend to have a certain disorder for long enough? Do they start adapting their own daily behavior to fit the WebMD description of their fake disease?
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Probably they go into habits that are hard to break in their faking of disorders. But to say that they are becoming the mask may be a little too much. A fake sperg is unlikely to gain much of an increase in mathematical capacity or see a reduction in perception of facial cues.
 
DankMemes said:
Do SJWs slowly become the mask if they pretend to have a certain disorder for long enough? Do they start adapting their own daily behavior to fit the WebMD description of their fake disease?
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My friend convinced herself she has Aspergers and exhibits symptoms now that she never used to display. She'll stim and cover her ears when there's a lot of noise and say it's her autism. Meanwhile, she never did this before her self-DX.
 
DankMemes said:
Do SJWs slowly become the mask if they pretend to have a certain disorder for long enough? Do they start adapting their own daily behavior to fit the WebMD description of their fake disease?
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Only in a bad way. They might develop permanent maladaptations that decrease their abilities, but are unlikely to pick up any good traits.
 
Romanticizing of mental illnesses isn't really new. It's been done in movies and novels and shit. It is only through the advent of the internet that we were able to find out that doing this is actually........
Fucking retarded.
 
Kaz said:
Romanticizing of mental illnesses isn't really new. It's been done in movies and novels and shit. It is only through the advent of the internet that we were able to find out that doing this is actually........
Fucking retarded.
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It's one thing to admire the positive traits of a tortured genius of some sort and what they managed to create usually in spite of rather than because of their problems. The fallacy goes something like "Vincent van Gogh was a tortured genius. I'm tortured, therefore, I'm a genius too!" It excludes the much larger category of tortured morons.
 
I think one of the most common ones to self-dx nowadays is BPD, which makes me pissed because I have BPD. None of these tumblrites even exhibit the main trait of BPD which is emotional dysregulation. To make it simple, just imagine being able to go from being depressed with no energy, to furious with extra energy, and then overwhelmingly happy all in one hour. But the trait they like with BPD is impulsitivity. Because then they can tell someone on tumblr to kill themselves and then when called out on it, say "It was my BPD!"

I'm always afraid to even say I'm borderline because I don't want anyone to think I've self-dx'd it and that I'm a fictionkin...
 
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