(( this is kind of important you should read ))

i'm tired of people glamourising mental illnesses & disorders

it does not make you more "relatable" pls stop

also i'm nOT hating on anyone

but the concept of publicising your mental illness just doesn't make sense to me

how can you be so confident about something that's ruining your life ? it's beyond me when people just suddenly hit you with the "oh i have depression" like ?????

why would you post your mental illness in a comment or casually mention it in a chapter ?? i mean i understand if you're having problems accepting it but publicising it only makes other people feel like it's okay to be suffering from that

like it's cool to be having scars on their thighs

cool to stop eating because they "don't feel hungry"

cool to be laying in bed all the time and contemplate existence

cool to not study because the "mental illness" won't let you

it's not cool

if you are publicising your mental illness the least you could do is tell people how you deal with it

don't tell them the 17 ways you can harm your body and waste away your life

tell them how a specific way of studying helps you cope in school

tell them how a specific way of drinking tea helps you calm your mind

tell them how you try and eat even if you don't want to

help people get better

don't "relate" with them

don't make it "cool" for them to be suffering from it

in the end, we all want to conquer our mental illness and stop it from holding us back

if you are comfortable enough with the world to know that you're suffering with something, let them know how you treat it as well

because it can't be that you just let it slowly destroy you

you're still getting through life, even if it's not very successfully

but you are

so just help other people get through their lives as well

for once i don't want a book with someone suffering from a mental illness listing their 972628 problems

i want them to tell people how they get through it because then maybe if people are "relating" to it, at the same time they can find new ways to help themselves

sorry if this was offensive to any of you, it's just my opinion on how it should be like, you don't have to agree with it

thanks for your time lads