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Excuse me? I’m mentally ill and I’d never do a goddamn thing like that. Don’t equate the mentally ill with abusive fucks, thanks.

Hey cool we’re both mentally ill, and so was my abusive shitbag brother who has the…

Same here, I was just baffled and horrified and it made me so angry and then I realized the video was actually triggering me and so were the people going, ‘Yeah! That’s really good parenting!’ smfh
I think I’m still going through that phase. I know they’re wrong, but it’s like I try to use the words to hate them but then it’s pretty much just burning myself more than them. I don’t even know what to do at this point in my life. I was diagnosed with major/clinical depression, currently unmedicated and not going to any therapy because the state won’t help me because I’m not sick enough. Mental illness is eating me alive, and with my future prospects (homeless and disabled in a redstate with no dependable family to support me), I don’t even know what the fuck I’m doing. My feelings about myself, slurs against mental illnesses, the self loathing and hopelessess, I just keep burning myself.
It is a struggle, and I don’t think for anyone who is mentally ill, unless some serious changes are made, it’s going to get better very quickly. Society, the government, medical needs, it all ties in and abled people don’t give a single fuck about any of us. More marginalized you are, the less likely you are to actually get help.

:( The absolute truth.

I really feel like they don’t even want us to exist. Like they want us wiped out. Considering all the hoops we have to jump through to get help to survive, it wouldn’t surprise me if that view is accurate.

That’s really, really, really frightening with all this talk from the GOP over here about how queers are “mentally ill” and need to be “fixed” and then they don’t really elaborate on how they intend to ‘fix’ people. Yeah, great, brb getting the fuck out of America before the next election. It’s scary, and I don’t want to sound like one of those paranoid fauxnews people, but what if they actually do start trying to fix queers and actually mentally ill folk? Like, you know what I mean by ‘fix’. This country… everything seems to be going in a really horrible direction for anyone who isn’t white, cis, heterosexual, mentally and physically abled, ect, ect. the typical ‘made to fit’ American.

It’s terrifying. And it doesn’t help that a lot of abled queer and trans folk are responding to this, not with a simple correction and saying that hey, “even if we were, mentally ill people still deserve rights”, but with ableist bullshit.

Like, “STOP THINKING OF US AS CRAZY. CRAZY IS BAD. HOW DARE YOU.”

So even liberals are dangerous. It’s awful.

Crazy, insane, ect. are such hard words to reclaim too, nearly impossible in my experience. I have not once been able to figure out how to use any of them in ways where they come across to others as positive? It’s fucking frustrating and adfaasdgw maybe if I knew how to use them where people wouldn’t see it as such a terrible thing, it would click in my head to use them as slurs. I’m so sick of CRAZY BAD, DON’T EVER CALL ME CRAZY, like that fucking helps take away the stigma!

Yeah, they’re really tough to find a good zone for that in. I mean, even things like “crazy awesome” are just using the word crazy for intensity, which isn’t really positive enough to counter slur shit and also isn’t really specific to our community and enabling us to get it back.

Ugh. The whole thing is a clusterfuck and I hate it.

And these words are used all over, without a single goddamn thought. Hell, even most of my friends and my most recent ex threw around the word crazy without a thought as to how it affected me and other mentally ill people. And those are all reasonably healthy connections with people.

Kinsey, this is the best conversation I’ve had on tumblr in a really horrible, triggery day. It’s good (well, comforting) to know that there are people like you in the world who are so intelligent and for lack of a better word, relatable. I don’t often meet people who have mental illness that understand the self loathing, the fear, the hopelessness, and the fact that society has such a huge impact on our lives. People with mental illness do not control or dictate their own lives: society does. That goes for any marginalized people, at all. I lose my ability to even relate to people because I just don’t feel like they’ll understand what it is like to live this way. Most of the time it’s bootstraps, or suggestions that never happen, and then you get the ‘you’re not trying hard enough’ talk. Thank you for talking with me and making me think about some aspects of myself, my illness and society.

We gotta stick together. No one else gives a fuck about us.

Even if just so we can throw bricks at those bootstraps assholes. I hate them so much. >.<

I hereby invite you to my next family gathering, here is your complimentary pile of bricks.

<3