Just because you suffer more, you have no right to deny others the relief that comes with the realization that you are not stupid/slow/disorganized/not intelligent enough to plan/etc.
you don’t have any insight into the lives of others, and pretending is a skill learned early in our society.
Yes, there are people who just happily collect labels and like to wear them. But they don’t take anything away from you. They don’t go to a doctor and take your appointment slot. They don’t eat all your medication.
Suffering is not a competition. Compassion is not a zero-sum-game. everybody wins if there is more of it.
Never claimed I did. The doctor does. Go get a diagnosis. If you’re not going to do that, then stop playing disorder pokemon.
Because it does take away from others. I shared in other posts exactly how it does. The babyfication of it all, and how it misinforms and downplays it to the larger society. Because those people are likely going to be the public’s exposure to it. The “self diagnosed but pretty sure” people FAR exceed the number of clinically diagnosed actually struggling.
A lot of diagnosed people (especially with severe mental disorders) are not shouting their problems from the rooftops. Theyre embarrassed by it, they feel less than or broken by it. Theyre not bragging “sometimes I lose the will to care for myself and live in a pile of trash”. “I fail to achieve my goals and find success because I can’t manage a consistent routine”. They dont want people to know that.
If you think you need mental health treatment, by all means, go get it. Do that. But, pretending online isn’t therapy and it isn’t helping you or anyone.
Shit, I even forgot to mention how people with their “look at me” list of self-diagnoses make people with REAL disorders feel inadequate or imposters. In comes TikTok Grifty McAutism talking about how they got their shit together and a legion of undiagnosed cosplayers (who really just needed to learn some personal responsibility and life skills) doing the “omg, me too, this helped so much”. Meanwhile the person with actual struggles is made to feel like either, a) they’re not trying hard enough, or b) they’re a lost cause.
“Thousands people are saying how they overcame it, or learned this coping mechanism… why can’t I?”
That’s real harm, all so someone can selfishly feel like “a quirky little mess uwu”…
Just because you suffer more, you have no right to deny others the relief that comes with the realization that you are not stupid/slow/disorganized/not intelligent enough to plan/etc. you don’t have any insight into the lives of others, and pretending is a skill learned early in our society.
Yes, there are people who just happily collect labels and like to wear them. But they don’t take anything away from you. They don’t go to a doctor and take your appointment slot. They don’t eat all your medication.
Suffering is not a competition. Compassion is not a zero-sum-game. everybody wins if there is more of it.
Never claimed I did. The doctor does. Go get a diagnosis. If you’re not going to do that, then stop playing disorder pokemon.
Because it does take away from others. I shared in other posts exactly how it does. The babyfication of it all, and how it misinforms and downplays it to the larger society. Because those people are likely going to be the public’s exposure to it. The “self diagnosed but pretty sure” people FAR exceed the number of clinically diagnosed actually struggling.
A lot of diagnosed people (especially with severe mental disorders) are not shouting their problems from the rooftops. Theyre embarrassed by it, they feel less than or broken by it. Theyre not bragging “sometimes I lose the will to care for myself and live in a pile of trash”. “I fail to achieve my goals and find success because I can’t manage a consistent routine”. They dont want people to know that.
If you think you need mental health treatment, by all means, go get it. Do that. But, pretending online isn’t therapy and it isn’t helping you or anyone.
Shit, I even forgot to mention how people with their “look at me” list of self-diagnoses make people with REAL disorders feel inadequate or imposters. In comes TikTok Grifty McAutism talking about how they got their shit together and a legion of undiagnosed cosplayers (who really just needed to learn some personal responsibility and life skills) doing the “omg, me too, this helped so much”. Meanwhile the person with actual struggles is made to feel like either, a) they’re not trying hard enough, or b) they’re a lost cause.
“Thousands people are saying how they overcame it, or learned this coping mechanism… why can’t I?”
That’s real harm, all so someone can selfishly feel like “a quirky little mess uwu”…