Hi fellow hetalians. There's this thing that bothers me and a lot of people in the countryhumans and hetalia fandom and that's how mental illness is shown in fanfiction.

Specifically, depression and anxiety since those two things are usually written about alot.

I think the top three characters people think of when they make a depressed nation oneshot or something is America, Italy, and Romano. Along with England, China, Russia, and Prussia.

Now, some of y'all are knew to either fanfiction, or countryhumans and hetalia fanfiction and may be asking, "But what's the problem? Aren't we spreading awareness by writing about these things?"

The answer is yes, we are spreading awareness, just not in the right way.

Imma say it straight. Romanticizing depression and/or other mental illnesses is wrong. You're basically writing a romantic cliche story about someone killing themselves, being a sociopath, or having depression and cutting themselves.

The same thing goes for yaoi and yuri. Just because you like yaoi and yuri(the sexual side of it) doesn't make you an ally of the LGBTQ+ community. You are sexualizing us so it's more of a kink.

Here's an example of how most people write bios of the character who is depressed. For this I will be using countryhumans America.

America
-Smol (anything below 5ft)
-Depressed boi
-Uke
-anorexia
-Shy
-Wears black
-cuts himself

DEPRESSION IS NOT A PERSONALITY TRAIT. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL AND QUIRKY. THIS IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD FACE WHILE R/IM14ANDTHISISDEEP GIRLS SAY THAT THEY'RE QUIRKY FOR QUOTE ON QUOTE "BEING DEPRESSED AND WANTING TO DIE"

Oh I'm sorry for yelling, but I needed to get it through to y'all. Also, just because someone is nervous doesn't mean they have anxiety. Like, let's say that you're about to give a speech. You  get nervous. That's stage fright.

Now, someone with anxiety is about to give a speech.
They sweat with worry, afraid of messing up, unwanted thought start racing through their head. Trembling with fear they start to feel nauseous.
(By the way I got these symptoms off Google)

See how easy it is to look up symptoms of a mental illness? You can even ask someone on the internet what it's like to have said mental illnesses.

Now why did I make this chapter? Because of this rule that wattpad has:

Now yes, I have written a oneshot with somewhat depressed America, I plan to rewrite it in the future since I was young and stupid.

I really don't know how to end this chapter, I just really hate that depression is written so badly and everything is so cliche these days. Instead of a depressed oneshot, why not a flipped personality oneshot? A oneshot where they meet the author?

Okay. Bye.