[ SECRET POST #4445 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4445 ⌋

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[Project Runway]


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[Glee]


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[James Bond: Die Another Day]


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[Project Runway]


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[Princess Bride]











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Comments

Re: Tumblr cringe

[(Anonymous)]

You can have a mental illness without having it diagnosed by a medical professional. And I say that as someone with a diagnosed mental illness. I get that it's annoying and bad when there are people playing the part of a mental illness. But the existence of mental illness is not dependent on whether a doctor has diagnosed it. And definitely, the existence of mental health symptoms is not dependent on a doctor's diagnosis.

You should definitely be careful and skeptical about assigning yourself any mental illness without a diagnosis, especially some very specific or rare diagnosis. And having a mental illness, whether it's diagnosed or not, doesn't justify being an ass. But I really think that this kind of gatekeeping sometimes does more harm than it does good. I think it really encourages a mindset of telling yourself that you don't "really" have a mental illness, that your problems don't "count", that you're not "mentally ill enough", and I think that attitude dissuades people from getting help that they need. And I don't think that - in this specific instance, at least based on this specific post - the user in question is actually doing anything wrong.

So, IDK. I get where this impulse comes from. But I think there are times when it's not that useful.