How did KF influence your thoughts on abnormal psyche/mental disorder? - did it change?

[Cake Farts]

Hey, I'm new here, and I want to say that this place was an eye opener for me. It showed me how fucked human mentality could really be and the bizzare, drastic behaviors of the unmedicated ill. It's people like Mike Holland and Chris that makes me a regular at this site. Reading your speculations and comments were what I missed most when this site was down.

 

[Watcher]

If anything I became more open minded about it since I've seen people rise above it. Most of the userbase here even has some form of mental disorder.

It's not so much the mental disorder as much as the lack of self awareness and social cues.

 

[The Queen of Trash]

Not really. A lot of the thoughts I had were just confirmed.

I just call people "faggots" and "niggers" more often now.

 

[DuckSucker]

Not really. A lot of the thoughts I had were just confirmed.

Such as? Is it something that cant be overcome or something, in your eyes? Or is your point more of a general, "Before, I thought niggas was crazy, now though, Im like, niggas be CRAAAAZY" type of sentiment?

 

[Pikimon]

Hey, I'm new here, and I want to say that this place was an eye opener for me. It showed me how fucked human mentality could really be and the bizzare, drastic behaviors of the unmedicated ill. It's people like Mike Holland and Chris that makes me a regular at this site. Reading your speculations and comments were what I missed most when this site was down.

I'm someone who actually has worked extensively with mental health in governmental settings and after being a member of these forums for a good while I can conclusively say that Internet usage for mentally ill people should be heavily discouraged.

 

[AtrocityVoyeur]

I'm someone who actually has worked extensively with mental health in governmental settings and after being a member of these forums for a good while I can conclusively say that Internet usage for mentally ill people should be heavily discouraged.

To play devil's advocate, if these individuals weren't cocooning themselves in their own fantasy realms on the Internet, do you think they would be getting into trouble in the real world? Or do you think the Internet amplifies and accentuates their mental health problems to such a degree that whatever trouble they'd get in without it, would be worth avoiding that metamorphosis?

 

[Pikimon]

To play devil's advocate, if these individuals weren't cocooning themselves in their own fantasy realms on the Internet, do you think they would be getting into trouble in the real world? Or do you think the Internet amplifies and accentuates their mental health problems to such a degree that whatever trouble they'd get in without it, would be worth avoiding that metamorphosis?

I think it's an amplifier, the Internet is a great way to avoid situations with people who are different from you, and when like-minded crazy people get together and converse, crazy becomes normal within their context.

 

[AtrocityVoyeur]

I think it's an amplifier, the Internet is a great way to avoid situations with people who are different from you, and when like-minded crazy people get together and converse, crazy becomes normal within their context.

I often wonder what especially autistic individuals would do without the Internet but it's difficult to separate the greater freedom they've experienced in society (lower rate of childhood institutionalization, fewer sheltered workshops, more no-strings-attached disability money) from access to the Internet so we'll never really know.

 

[AnOminous]

I think it's an amplifier, the Internet is a great way to avoid situations with people who are different from you, and when like-minded crazy people get together and converse, crazy becomes normal within their context.

It also seems in cases like the Pizzagate shit that some nuts end up radicalized by crazy echo chambers on the Internet to the point they go commit some act of insanity irl, when they might have just been isolated kooks otherwise.

 

[cuddle striker]

People with mental illness are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators. They're often unable to make decisions or understand the consequences of an action.

This isn't my first rodeo with internet weirdness and so it hasn't changed my mind, I've always had the opinion that those who are unable to understand what they're doing shouldn't be given internet access without supervision- whether that's minors or those with mental illness or developmental disabilities.

A lot of victims putting themselves out there and too many wolves ready to tear them up. I've seen nothing but reinforcement of that opinion from reading here.

Nutty cows are fun to watch and all, but knowing nobody gives enough of a shit to keep them off the internet is fucked up.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Well I used to only drown three babies a night.

Since I started posting on the Farms it's gone up to ten.

 

[Bombshell]

I think it's an amplifier, the Internet is a great way to avoid situations with people who are different from you, and when like-minded crazy people get together and converse, crazy becomes normal within their context.

Not to mention that constant re-affirming of your own worst fears is actually able to make mentall illness's manifest in the first place.

It is entirely possible for a perfectly normal individual to develop anxiety and depression disorder by constantly telling him/herself that something is incredible dangerous and is out to get them, and then of course being re-affirmed by others speeds up the process. Eventually they will start to believe it and act accordingly.

To be put in a enviroment where you are constantly told you need to always look over your shoulder, everyone is out to get you, everyone are monsters will make you believe it, and because you always have to be on your guard it will make you develop stress symptons which can evolve into anxiety and depression, and that can then trigger other mental illness's that perhaps would never have been an issue if this long chain of events had never happened.
And then of course the only way to truly deal with these things would be to get out of the enviroment and out of the things that puts these thoughts into your head.
But as the enternet is always readily available and able to make these people feel good and important, almost like a quick fix, it is easier said than done.

 

[The Queen of Trash]

Such as? Is it something that cant be overcome or something, in your eyes? Or is your point more of a general, "Before, I thought niggas was crazy, now though, Im like, niggas be CRAAAAZY" type of sentiment?

To just elaborate a little further, I see it as something that can be overcome. You have two options when it comes to mental illness/disorders and anything traumatizing that happens to you. 1. You allow yourself to be a perpetual victim and get worse, giving more power to what has been negatively impacting you. 2. Overcome it, become a happier person, and live a somewhat functional life. (I'm not saying that anyone can completely cure themselves, but they can most definitely learn how to effectively cope.)

 

[Jaimas]

I've learned that the moral character of a given lolcow is invariably inversely proportionate to how much they virtue signal.

I've learned the correct response to genderspecials is hard science, which makes them cry and gives nary a fuck about their feelings.

I've learned that so far, only two people involved with the Rat King are competent game makers and they're also the ones that are fucking outcasts.

I've learned that Lolcows hate facts, science, the work ethic, irony, shitposting, and fish.

And I've learned that if there's dick pics out there, we will find them. Here on the Farms, we will find all the dicks.

 

[melty]

It's not changed my opinion other than giving a little more insight into schizophrenia. I don't think less of autistic people, I think they're fine despite all the odd ones here. and I think pretty much the same of bpd and narcissists, which is very little.

 

[ES 148]

I'm a little more educated on what autism looks like 'in-action', mainly thanks to Chris and other people who brag/feel the need to mention it. Other than that, my opinion hasn't really changed, it's a mental disorder that can be life-ruining to barely-noticeable, [insert decency, morals, etc. etc.].

 

[Piss Clam]

For me the biggest mistake we made in the US was the Community Mental Health Care Act of 1963.

It did go far in curbing the horrors of State run mental health care facilities via deinstitutionalization, but I don't see how we are better off as a society as there was little funding over the decades to pick up the slack.

Instead of reading about the horrors of the State we get to see the horrors of the people via social media.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Opened my eyes that Hitler was right about everything.

 

[StraightShooter]

My conclusion is that there's a heavy correlation between excessive viewing of media and mental illness; likely especially in cases where parents just abandon their kid in a room with a TV for video game console and they receive minimal interaction with the outside world, probably influences them being unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

That's likely why so many of these sperglords are obsessed with niche 'fandoms' like MLP, Sonic, Pokemon, etc. Hell even the wannabe Reagan assassin was obsessed with the Taxi Driver movie.

 

[TiggerNits]

I still think most mental illness is worse for the observer and care taker than it is the hyper-expensive pets in human form that most 'tards actually are