Lately I've been thinking a lot about a lot of things. And I've also been very angry at quite a lot of people, and in general when I'm angry I just get off the Internet and stop worrying about it. But when it's an important topic and when I happen to have many things to say I found out that I just can't keep my mouth shut. I'm so annoying but you know you love me. Because I don't think I could ever look at myself in the mirror if I let the things I witness happening eveyday happen without saying something.
1 - Mental illnesses are a serious issue, not a trend.
Because I'm honestly so done with people throwing words like they mean nothing. "I'm so depressed." "kill yourself" "im gonna kms" "I just ate 5 pizza slices pretty sure i have bulimia". I don't see where you got the idea where this was ever fun or cool, but it really isn't. I'm quite quite sure you wouldn't be like "lol got a cogh probably throat cancer" ever, and I don't think mental illnesses should be joked about either. You don't joke about something that ruins people's lives, that's common curtesy, or just basic education, call it whatever you like. Those illnesses are not to be overooked and sufferers deserve treatment. It's not really fnu to be under a medication that makes you feel like you have no control over your brain anymore. Trust me. So don't pretend to have those illnesses because truth is I don't know anyone who would wish it upon their worst enemy.
2 - Uninvite me from your pity party.
If you want to dwell on your sadness and get all the possible attention from it, I am not going to condone that. Yes, depression is a serious issue, no plastering it on every social media you have isn't gonna help you go out of it. Chances are it's only going to push you further down. You publicly complain every day, so of course you get attention and you then realise you're addicted to the feeling of having people who care and you just keep getting sadder every time a bit of the attention goes away and consequently display this sadness and there we go again, vicious circle. Get real help, instead of seeking for attention online by means that are more than often questionable. And guess what, spending your day reading depressing quotes isn't gonna be helping at all, shocker.
3 - There is a difference between raising awareness and triggering.
Yes, it is very important to speak about how you feel and to know it's ok to feel whatever it is you're feeing, but NO IT IS NOT OK TO POST PICTURES THAT COULD TRIGGER OTHERS. Of course you only see it as a testimony of that illness that is such an important part of your life. Guess what? Eventually you're gonna get out of it, you're gonna be better, and you'll look back and wonder why you ever posted online a picture of your butchered arms. Because first of all yes, it could trigger people who self harm to harm themselves more, give them ideas, makes them relapse. But don't you see the WORST consequence? Imagine someone who has never been exposed to self harm in any way. You all present it as a way to display youur inner turmoil as if you were some kind of tortred poet and you're giving people ideas on how to hurt themselves. Don't you dare tell me even half of the people who self harm/ suffer from depression/ have an eating disorder would have one had they not been exposed to it through a media of some sort. Don't you dare. Mental illnesses are different from other illnesses because they happen in yor brain and that your brain is a mysterious place. Be responsible. Don't put your curse on someone else. Get help and stop encouraging each others into carrying on deadly habits. Most of those illnesses are self-constructed. That means you're your own problem, but also your own solution.
4 - Sadness isn't great.
I can't even count how many times I've seen posts that glorify sadness as if it were some kind of quality some people had that made them able to understand things on a deeper level. This is all kind of wrong. No one is entirely sad or entirely happy, for life is a balance between happy and sad moments (one cannot exist without the other). So keep your "no one understands me" to yourself, because you honestly just say that without thinking. You seme to constantly complain that people don't see how sad you are. Well maybe you don't seee how sad they get at some points either, have you thought about that? We all are sad, and we all are happy. We all have gonee through rough patches, difficult experiences and things that left their mark on us. So basically pretty much everyone can at least partly understand not what you're going through but what you're feeling. So don't push people away just for the sake of staying in your sad bubble that you find some kind of comfort in. Communicate instead of monologuing. You will find a way out.
If you ever need help there are going to be people here for you. Speak out. Express yourselves. Don't dwell on your own pain because only YOU can actually do something productive about it. I believe in you but if you don't let yourselve believe in you I doubt that's gonna work.
